Next Steps Healthcare operates 14 nursing home facilities in Massachusetts and was co-owned by Damien Dell’Anno and William Stephan. The company has allegations of failing to properly staff nursing homes causing neglect and harm. Complaints and referrals from the Department of Public Health resulted in the years-long investigation of the Next Steps. Attorney General Andrea
AJMC reported a recent study finds that older patients who are starting medication to manage their blood pressure may be at an increased risk for traumatic falls. Among more than 60,000 nursing home residents who take anti hypertensive medication that particularly experience dementia and high blood pressure have experienced up to 5 excess fractures due
“[The public is] not getting the five-star care that they believe they’re getting,” Mahan says. Widower Howard Mahan reminisced about his late wife, Karen in a News5 article by Lori Jane Gilha. Mahan said that his wife was a resident at Touchmark on South Hill, a nursing home in Spokane, WA. Mahan claims that nursing
PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) is a center that provides government-funded medical care and social services to people older than 55 whose financial medicinal needs qualify them for nursing home care but are able to live at home with the right kind of assistance. PACE began in the early 1970s when community
At age 78, Trump is now the oldest presidential nominee in U.S. history, and the candidate known for mixing up names. When his book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was published, JD Vance sent an email apologizing to a transgender friend from his Yale Law School days. In October 2014, in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old
Evaluation of nutritional status is critical, either to identify if an individual has nutritional imbalance due to an underlying condition or to assess if an individual is likely to develop a pathological condition due to nutritional imbalance. A detailed, systematic evaluation of a patient’s nutritional status conducted by healthcare providers in a team-based setting to
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