The Iowa Dispatch reported another drug diversion by a nursing home nurse. After 20 years of work at the Iowan nursing home, Friendship Haven, in July 2024, nurse Lacy Dencklau tested positive for methamphetamine. Seven months earlier in December 2023, the nursing home’s own Human Resources director reported that nurse Dencklau had “‘not been acting right.’”
Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation called the bill “the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.” Here are seven things everyone should know about Trump’s spending bill: 1. Trump’s bill will cut $980 billion from Medicaid Approximately 71 million people rely on Medicaid for healthcare. In rural communities, “where Medicaid covers
The recent House reconciliation bill has proposed tremendous cuts to both Medicaid and Medicare, putting fiscally vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities at substantially greater risk. Such cuts would be the largest in Medicaid’s history and would reduce general access to nursing home care and community-based long-term services and support. Currently, over seven million older
The interest America has to pay its lenders will exceed $1 trillion for the first time ever next year — more than we spend on Medicare.
Last April, the nursing home executive, Paul Walczak, was generously pardoned by President Trump after illegally withholding over $7 millions of taxes from his employees’ paychecks and using the funds for personal gain instead. The Palm Health Partners’ executive was originally expected to serve 18 months in prison, plus two years of supervised release, and
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