Last week, the House Small Business Investigations subcommittee in Washington, D.C. held a hearing on nursing home sex offenders and other registered violent criminals living at long-term care facilities. In many states there are no requirements that law enforcement officials notify nursing home residents when convicted… Read More
On Tuesday, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law passed an arbitration reform bill that will protect the ability of nursing home residents to file personal injury cases in court. If the bill becomes law, mandatory arbitration clauses in many admission agreements would be… Read More
Legislation has been proposed in Congress to invalidated nursing home arbitration clauses that appear in many admission contracts. The provisions take away the resident's ability to file a lawsuit in court as a result of nursing home neglect or abuse, removing their access to the courts… Read More
The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) sponsored a World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, 2008 to increase recognition of this global problem and raise awareness of the factors that can lead to or limit abuse of seniors. The rapid aging… Read More
An article in the Baltimore Sun highlighted several examples of bad care which landed two Maryland nursing homes on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' most recent list of the worst nursing homes in the country. The homes were designated "Special Focus Facilities" because of… Read More
According to a report issued this week by Congressional investigators from the Government Accountability Office, state inspectors often overlook or minimize nursing home problems, including cases of neglect and abuse. Problems which pose a threat to residents' health, such as malnutrition, bedsores, over-medication and nursing home… Read More
On Sunday, when families throughout the United States went to visit their mother's in ManorCare nursing homes for Mother's Day, they were greeted with a carnation and information calling them to take action to help improve the quality of nursing home care. ManorCare, which was recently… Read More
The federal government has now made it easier for families to identify some of the worst nursing homes in American while they are researching which facility should be trusted to care for their loved one. Last year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)… Read More
NBC's Today Show featured a report last week about a disturbing reality in many nursing homes. Sexual offenders and other elderly residents are often placed together in nursing homes, with no additional monitoring, warning or separation to help reduce the risk of abuse. The Today Show… Read More
The use of nursing home restraints is a common practice at many nursing homes throughout the United States. However, some facilities excessively use restraining devices not only to prevent residents from injuring themselves, but also as a form of punishment or as a matter of convenience.… Read More
