A jury compensated a resident and her family for neglect and abuse suffered at Providence Palos Heights nursing home. The $5.5 million verdict is the largest nursing home verdict in Illinois history. The family of patient Bettye Patterson filed suit against owner/operator Providence Operations, LLC, for negligence and wrongful death. The facility admitted Bettye Patterson
Iowa families will soon be able to keep a closer eye on their loved ones living in a nursing home, thanks tor House File 537 which will allow security cameras to be installed inside a resident’s room. The bill comes on the heels of repeated incidents of abuse, neglect and under-staffing at facilities across the state.
Axios reported a record 21.3 million people signed up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Surprisingly, the largest enrollment increases were in heavily Republican states. States with the largest year-over-year increase in sign-ups include West Virginia (80.2%), Louisiana (75.9%), Ohio (62.2%), Indiana (59.6%) and Tennessee (59.5%). Seven other states saw increases of
A South Carolina woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a medical tech company because her husband died from a rare infection linked to a recalled medical device used during his heart surgery. The woman’s husband was diagnosed with mycobacterium chimaera after his surgery, an infection
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