Nursing home article reminds us of the failures of those protecting our elders. In a sickening incident that highlights the consistent shortcomings of assisted living facilities and nursing homes, 68-year-old Mitchell Noe has been arrested for raping a nursing home patient near the end of May. Noe allegedly forced the vulnerable elder to perform oral
What happens when nursing homes that are already severely understaffed are forced to lose even more staff? Americans are soon to find out, as the Trump administration continues to end the legal status of immigrants working in health care fields and deport them from the United States. Nursing facilities are known to rely heavily on
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
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