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: 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: 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: CMS has announced it will conduct investigations into certain nursing homes in an effort to uncover illegitimate schizophrenia diagnoses and any accompanying inappropriate...
Nursing Home Sued for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect: The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Cold Spring Hills diverted of tens of millions of dollars of government funding while engaging in repeated incidents of nursing home malpractice and slashing staffing to...
Nursing Homes Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia: A new government study indicates that anti-seizure medications usually reserved for epilepsy patients are increasingly being used by nursing homes to sedate dementia patients, says a...
