A federal judge ruled Wednesday that California’s byzantine public health bureaucracy must face a lawsuit by elderly Medi-Cal patients claiming it fails to enforce laws prohibiting nursing homes from dumping them into hospitals to free up space for more profitable residents.
Read moreCiting binding precedent, a federal judge tossed part of an arbitration agreement that required nursing home employees suing for unpaid wages to give up their right to seek civil penalties under the Private Attorneys General Act, a law that deputizes private citizens to enforce California’s strict labor codes.
Read moreAn attorney for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to keep in federal court a conspiracy and fraud class action accusing the company of selling nursing homes with invalid licenses.
Read moreNational Public Radio sued the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in federal court for records on antipsychotic drug use and the names of corporate nursing home chains that the CMS has identified as using antipsychotic medication at high rates at some 1,500 nursing homes.
Read moreSolamed O2 sued Airgas USA in federal court, claiming it violated contract by “suspend(ing) delivery of oxygen to more than nine nursing home facilities across multiple states, leaving thousands of patients’ lives at risk.”
Read moreThe SEC sued Rabbi Zvi Feiner, Erez Baver and their company FNR Healthcare in federal court, claiming they raised more than $10 million to buy nursing homes, but sold properties without telling investors, failed to distribute the proceeds to investors and spent them on other projects and themselves.
Read moreThe California attorney general claims Santa Cruz Skilled Nursing dba Hearts & Hands Post Acute Care & Rehab Center and four other centers falsely report 5-star ratings, though within 2 years there were 123 violence assistance calls, 55 missing persons calls, 11 reports of sexual violence, 10 of elder abuse, and other problems, in Santa Cruz County Court.
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Four South Florida nursing home workers are facing aggravated manslaughter charges for the deaths of a dozen residents who perished under their care amid sweltering heat during a power outage caused by Hurricane Irma.
Read moreElderly 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.
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