A lawsuit against a Fort Smith-based nursing home company can proceed as a class-action suit, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled this week. The court affirmed a decision to grant class-action certification to a suit alleging Batesville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center failed to live up to contractual and statutory obligations to take care of the basic
Here is an article about a nursing home company indicted in 2004 for the death of a resident. Life Care Centers of America Inc. was finally indicted in the preventable death of an elderly woman whose body was found in her overturned wheelchair at the bottom of the front stairway of an Acton facility. Life Care
I saw a great article discussing the process of choosing and entering a nursing home. The article tells the story of a woman who scouted nursing homes with a home-like setting where the staff-to-resident ratio was low. More than 5 million people in the United States receive some form of daily care, according to Joseph L.
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) is the component of the Federal Government’s Department of Health and Human Services that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Medicaid and Medicare dollars are used to cover nursing home care and services for the elderly and disabled. State governments oversee the licensing of nursing homes. In addition,
I saw this story in a Pittsburgh paper. I can’t believe they gave probation to a nurse who lied, changed medical documents, and covered up the circumstances of neglect that caused the death of a nursing home resident. What kind of deterrent is this? Kathleen Galati who was a nursing home supervisor was sentenced to only
There is a new product called QuietCare which is a home monitoring system that tracks a resident’s health, and alerts designated neighbors by e-mail or phone when something is wrong. The QuietCare monitoring system can keep up with meals and medications, and to alert others if he has had a fall or other emergency. In an industry
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