Plea Deal for Infamous New Jersey Nursing Home Operator Rejected by Federal Judge

Plea Deal for Infamous New Jersey Nursing Home Operator Rejected by Federal Judge

Plea Deal Rejected by Federal Judge for Infamous New Jersey Nursing Home Operator After establishing Skyline Healthcare, Joseph Schwartz’s nursing home chain rapidly expanded; by 2017 the operator was running 95 facilities in 11 states from his office above a New...
Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes

Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes

Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes: With the increased number of residents with dementia in New Jersey nursing homes corresponds a growth in occurrences of resident-on-resident nursing home abuse. According to a NJ Advance Media...
Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Deficient New Jersey Veterans Home

Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Deficient New Jersey Veterans Home

Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Veterans Home: Following an inspection that revealed residents of a New Jersey veterans home were in “immediate jeopardy,” a team of “mission-critical” long-term care professionals was sent by the Gov. Phil Murphy administration to...
New Jersey Nursing Home Sued for Coercing Resident to Sign away Rights

New Jersey Nursing Home Sued for Coercing Resident to Sign away Rights

NJ Nursing Home Sued for Coercing Resident to Sign away Rights According to an article on NJ.com, a recently filed lawsuit claims that a short-term resident of a New Jersey nursing home was coerced while heavily medicated to sign a power of attorney agreement as part...
New Jersey Takes Control of Problematic Nursing Home after DOH Raises Concern for Residents’ Lives

New Jersey Takes Control of Problematic Nursing Home after DOH Raises Concern for Residents’ Lives

New Jersey Takes Control of Nursing Home with DOH Concerned for Residents’ Lives: Prior to the stepping in of the state, the Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center in Andover, named one of New Jersey’s 15 worst-performing nursing homes for failing to prevent nursing...