Studies show a significant decline in quality of nursing home care for blacks compared to whites. Elderly black Americans in nursing homes get worse care than that enjoyed by their white counterparts. “If you’re black, you’re much more likely to get your care in a nursing home that’s not so good, relative to nursing homes that
U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released a statement on the report in the New York Times on nursing homes. “The news that some private equity firms have been boosting profits at the nursing homes they own by cutting essential staff and compromising the quality of care for our seniors is unconscionable and unacceptable. America’s workers
I do not understand how nursing homes continue to say that they can’t make any money taking care of their residents. The corporate executives of Manor Care will get more than $200 million for their sale to the Carlyle Group. The head of America’s biggest nursing-home company is about to get intensive financial treatment. Chief
The owner and manager of a Palmetto nursing home has been arrested on a charge of neglecting an elderly person in connection with a large lesion found on the face of a resident there. According to reports, 85-year-old Ronald Larsen began living at the Palmetto Guest House in June, 2005. Jacqueline Dorelien took over the home