I just read this article about staffing at night in hospitals. It starts and ends with a particular incident at the Medical University of South Carolina’s children’s hospital. This is a truly terrifying account of the lack of staffing in hospitals on night shift. Now take this same idea of less staffing to a nursing home setting.
Senior citizens who do not have children to help care for them are less likely to have to go into a nursing home if they live in a state that spends more on home- and community- based services found. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the finding in the May 11 issue
A Cleveland, Tenn., nursing home company has settled a lawsuit for neglecting its patients and allowing an elderly woman to lie in her own feces for hours at a time after back surgery. The woman, Betty Mae Hanzel of Hastings, developed an infection in her wound during her stay at the Life Care Center of
State and national organizations pushing for nursing home reform say life-threatening problems in facilities for the elderly usually are linked to inadequate staffing. Nursing home residents have their needs ignored because staffers are overworked, according to top officials with the National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform in Washington, D.C., and Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform,
State and federal officials announced today a $550,000 settlement in a fraudulent medical billing case against Green Valley Pavilion of Smyrna. Members of the Delaware Attorney General’s Office medicaid fraud control unit and the U.S. Attorney’s Office determined that some of Green Valley’s employees were altering patient charts in order to get more money from
Investigators in Kenton County, Ohio are looking into a nursing home in Erlanger, where several complaints have been filed against Villa Springs Nursing Home. As many as five patients may have died as a result of abuse and neglect, authorities said. One former patient told News 5 he nearly died trying to get help from a