Neglect Allegedly Responsible for the Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident

Neglect Allegedly Responsible for the Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident

Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident : Massachusetts’s Hathorne Hill in Danvers has been cited for other recent incidents of nursing home malpractice related to substandard care and conditions that jeopardized the health and safety of the...
Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice

Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice

Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice The Biden administration has released a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to meet a minimum staffing level, a Washington Post article reports. The rule, said Secretary of Health...
Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records: Federal Trial Begins:  Years of Medicaid and Medicare fraud has been alleged at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness, two...
Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores

Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores

Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores: A recent study shows that nursing homes are underreporting serious falls and bedsores, top indicators of nursing home malpractice. According to a U.S. News & World Report article, a study indicates that U.S....
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Settles in Bedsore Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Settles in Bedsore Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Settles in Bedsore Wrongful Death Lawsuit: The Gardens at Scranton nursing home has a recent history of nursing home malpractice lawsuits in which wrongful death from bed sores has been alleged. A Pennsylvania nursing home has settled in a...
Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use

Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use

Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use: CMS has announced it will conduct investigations into certain nursing homes in an effort to uncover illegitimate schizophrenia diagnoses and any accompanying inappropriate...