Elderly patients will get a second chance to sue California for failing to enforce laws that prevent nursing homes from dumping Medi-Cal patients to boost profits, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreNursing facilities in the U.S. did not report thousands of cases of potential neglect and abuse of elderly Medicare recipients, the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general said in an audit released Wednesday.
Read moreThe federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious ongoing health, safety or sanitary problems.
Read moreThe Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that nursing home residents cannot be automatically denied Medicaid benefits simply because they transferred assets to a trust benefiting their non-institutionalized spouse.
Read moreAttorneys for three Michigan residents receiving long-term care in nursing homes argued before the state’s highest court Tuesday that a spouse’s transfer of assets to a trust should not prevent them from receiving Medicaid benefits.
Read moreAn elderly, severely disabled woman who speaks Spanish claims in court that she was abused at Providence Extended Care, where she was denied food and told she could “lie in her own shit if she did not speak English.”
Read moreA nurse was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and falsifying documents to make it appear she had performed required exams on President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser’s father before he died at a Philadelphia senior care facility last month.
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The South Florida nursing home where 10 elderly patients died after Hurricane Irma knocked the air conditioning out for three days is now suing in a bid to restore its Medicaid funding.
Read moreA South Florida nursing home where eight residents died during a power outage from Hurricane Irma is blaming Florida Power & Light for the tragedy, claiming it failed to respond to reports of an impending medical emergency.
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Five people have died at a South Florida nursing home that lost power due to Hurricane Irma. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three of the deaths took place at the nursing home, while two others occurred as the residents were being transported to a hospital. Sharief said 120 residents of the Hollywood, Fla., facility have been evacuated due to intense heat.
Read moreMore than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law requiring immediate notification.
Read moreTestifying in the federal corruption trial of Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams, an administrator from the nursing home where the prosecutor installed his mother told jurors Tuesday that Williams reacted unusually to news of her mounting bills.
Read morePHILADELPHIA (CN) – Jurors weighing federal corruption charges against Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams heard testimony Wednesday about bills
Read moreA former nurse accused of killing eight seniors in her care has told a Canadian judge that she intends to plead guilty to first-degree murder.
Read moreIn its latest backing of arbitration powers, the Supreme Court ruled Monday against the estates of nursing home residents whose children waived their right to sue.
Read moreFour days after a Northern California nursing home left a blind man with dementia and a seizure disorder at a hotel with a half-gallon of milk, instant noodles and Velveeta, and told him he could stay 30 days, he was dead, his estate claims in court.
Read moreNew York’s largest nursing home company faces a federal complaint that accuses it of keeping hundreds of Filipino nurses in indentured servitude, making them think they would owe $25,000 or face jail time if they stopped working.
Read morePoised to reinforce arbitration powers, the Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to block lawsuits against nursing homes by residents whose children waived their right to sue.
Read moreThe state of Maryland wants treble damages from a nursing home operator that it says has dumped at least 1,000 elderly residents, oftentimes at homeless shelters, after they’ve exhausted their Medicare coverage for a short-term stay.
Read moreAfter a two-year investigation, the Justice Department found Louisiana’s reliance on nursing homes to provide services to people with serious mental illnesses violates their civil rights.
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