The media reported the tragic case of Helen Ende, who froze to death outside Parkside Manor assisted living facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Her wrongful death is a devastating example of systemic negligence in long-term care. On a bitterly cold December night in 2022 at around 12:40 a.m., Helen wandered outside, triggering a door alarm that
The EPA’s recent decision to ban trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (Perc) marks a significant victory for the overall health of the public. TCE, found in cleaners and glues, is a known carcinogen linked to liver and kidney cancer. Perc was widely used in dry cleaning as well as automotive care products and causes organ damage
The $45 million settlement between the New York Attorney General’s Office and Centers for Care LLC is another example of troubling patterns of financial exploitation in the nursing home industry being exposed. Centers for Care, which operates over 30 facilities across New York, and even more facilities across the Northeast United States, misappropriated an estimated
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) asked Pete Hegseth to name the importance of the United States’ agreements with nations in ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Hegseth responded that “we have allies in South Korea and Japan and … Australia,” referencing nations in the IndoPacific. Duckworth pointed out that none of those nations are in
The North Dakota Monitor reported the critical need for safe staffing levels. The Biden administration’s newly implemented staffing standards for nursing homes mark a long-overdue effort to address systemic neglect in the industry. These standards require at least 0.55 hours (33 minutes) of RN care per resident per day and 2.45 hours (2 hours and
Mission Skilled Nursing & Sub-Acute Care Facility nursing home allowed Connie Jo Delucca to use her cane to beat her roommate, Vera Plares, to death. The failure to supervise the residents and train staff on how to redirect led to Vera’s wrongful death. The nursing home knew or should have known that Deluca had a
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