Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents

Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents

Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents: New legislation has been introduced to prevent New Jersey nursing homes, or any entities associated with these homes, from managing residents’ financial affairs without a...
Biden Administration Calls for Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership and Operation

Biden Administration Calls for Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership and Operation

Biden Administration Calls for Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership and Operation: Research reveals that for-profit and private equity ownership of nursing homes is connected with increased nursing home malpractice and wrongful death. According to a USA Today...
Wrongful Death of a Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident Involved Paper Lodged in Her Windpipe

Wrongful Death of a Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident Involved Paper Lodged in Her Windpipe

Nursing Home Resident Victim to Wrongful Death in Philadelphia: The mother of a woman with disabilities who died after a paper towel or disinfecting wipe was found in her trachea has secured a wrongful death attorney in her lawsuit against the Philadelphia nursing...
Nursing Home Resident Dies after Being Poisoned with Dishwashing Soap

Nursing Home Resident Dies after Being Poisoned with Dishwashing Soap

Death of Nursing Home Resident Due to Dishwashing Soap: In a stunning incidence of nursing home malpractice that ultimately resulted in the wrongful death of one elderly resident, three California nursing home residents were hospitalized after being served dishwashing...
Two Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Named in Federal Health Care Fraud Indictment

Two Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Named in Federal Health Care Fraud Indictment

Federal Health Care Fraud Indictment Includes Two Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Accused of falsifying records, five Individuals from Brighton Rehab and Wellness Center and Mt. Lebanon Rehab and Wellness Center have been charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S....
Nursing Homes Are Bullying Friends and Family to Pay Patients’ Debt

Nursing Homes Are Bullying Friends and Family to Pay Patients’ Debt

Nursing Homes Having Friends or Family Pay Patients’ Debt Often using admissions agreements to ensnare friends and family who have no legal responsibility for residents’ debts, nursing homes are ignoring federal debt collection laws as they go after residents’...