Kaiser Health News had an incredible story about greed in the health care industry. Vulture capitalism controls health care in America. Private equity is a major problem. Deep-pocketed Wall Street firms plowed $206 billion into more than 1,400 health care acquisitions according to industry tracker PitchBook. Private equity firms and related entities profit by violating
Neglect The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the neglect suffered by veterans in nursing homes. One example is Randy Krall. Krall’s death was highlighted in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation that revealed a pattern of violations at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at Union Grove reaching back five years. The nursing home neglected Krall. The facility caused medication
A caregiver was sentenced to 20 years fore horrific elder abuse. Fortunately, a home security system captured the abuse on video. The victim’s family had installed the cameras to monitor their loved one. The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office accused Shelia Knight of “forcefully” pushing an 86-year-old resident causing her to break her hip. Prosecutors
Another horrible incident of abuse and neglect at a nursing home. Inez Windom showed 13WHAM photos of the injuries her mother suffered from an assault at The Shore Winds, a nursing home in Charlotte. A nursing home caregiver allegedly threw a resident to the ground and tried to rape her. She suffered defensive wounds including
Let us be clear: We are cracking down on enforcement of our nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes. We are demanding better, because our seniors deserve better. –HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Special Focus Facility CMS will revise the Special Focus Facility Program to help residents of chronically low-performing nursing homes. Facilities in the program are to be
Evan Porter wrote an interesting article showing a new way to operate an assisted living facility. A nursing home built that breaks most norms. Most nursing homes today typically have residents in confined areas with regimented medication schedules. Similar to a prison. Instead, this particular nursing home design uses different forms of therapy. The architecture