Nursing Homes
Private-equity-acquired nursing homes have worse resident outcomes, higher Medicare costs, study finds
Article Summary: A recently published national cohort analysis found significant increase in ambulatory care-sensitive outcomes and per-resident Medicare costs. By Dave Muoio, Fierce Healthcare, Nov 24, 2021. Long-stay residents of nursing homes recently acquired by… Read More
FEMA Sends Faulty Protective Gear to Nursing Homes Battling Virus
Article Summary: The controversy over inadequate protective equipment has come to embody what critics describe as a haphazard federal effort to protect the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes. By: Andrew Jacobs, The… Read More
Half Of U.S. States To Fall Short Of White House Goal On Nursing Home Testing
By Jack Brewster, Forbes, May 24, 2020. At least half of U.S. states will not meet a White House goal on nursing home testing due to costs and a lack of resources, an Associated Press… Read More
Nursing Home Outbreak Spotlights Coronavirus Risk In Elder Care Facilities
By JoNel Aleccia, KHN, Mar 01, 2020. The cluster of illness is the first of its type in the U.S., where 2.2 million people live in long-term care settings and may be at heightened risk… Read More
Nursing Home Safety Violations Put Residents At Risk
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, KHN, Nov 14, 2019. As huge swaths of California burned last fall, federal health officials descended on 20 California nursing homes to determine whether they were prepared to protect their vulnerable… Read More
Nursing Homes Are a Breeding Ground for a Fatal Fungus.
Photo Credit Jeenah Moon for The New York Times. Drug-resistant germs, including Candida auris, prey on severely ill patients in skilled nursing facilities, a problem sometimes amplified by poor care and low staffing. By Matt Richtel and… Read More
Avoidable Sepsis Infections Send 1,000s to Gruesome Deaths
No one tracks sepsis cases closely enough to know how often these severe infections turn fatal, but the toll is enormous. By Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune. Shana Dorsey… Read More
Nursing Home Company to Pay $2M For Resident’s Death
By Meyerkord and Meyerkord, LLC, Polk County, GA. The family of a woman who died just 100 days after being admitted to a nursing home have won their nursing home lawsuit, with the nursing home… Read More
One Third of Skilled Nursing Patients Harmed in Treatment
By Marshall Allen, ProPublica. A study by Medicare’s inspector general of skilled nursing facilities says nearly 22,000 patients were injured and more than 1,500 died in a single month — a higher rate of medical… Read More