Category: Featured Articles
Survey: Nursing Home Administrators Say Background Checks Both Helpful and Efficient
Posted in Featured Articles on March 1, 2012The Department of Health and Human Services recently released a survey of nursing home administrators concerning their experience with background checks for prospective employees. The survey was mandated as part of the Affordable Care Act, the health care act passed in 2010, and is part of a move … Read the Rest
Advocates For Nursing Home Residents Urge Action Against House Bill 361
Posted in Featured Articles on February 24, 2012Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform, a group focused on improving care for Kentucky’s 23,000 nursing home residents, has called for action against a bill that would throw up an unnecessary roadblock in lawsuits against facilities where residents have suffered abuse or neglect. The … Read the Rest
Nursing Home Residents Who Visit the ER Are Vulnerable to Infections
Posted in Featured Articles on February 17, 2012A new study shows that nursing home residents who visit the emergency room have three times the risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections as residents who remain in the nursing home. Researchers speculate that they may be picking up pathogens from staff or other patients while they … Read the Rest
We Believe House Bill 361 Would Delay Access For Nursing Home Residents To The Court System
Posted in Featured Articles on February 7, 2012Hughes and Coleman attorney Sheila P. Hiestand, president of the Kentucky Justice Association, wrote the following article for the Advocate about a nursing home bill that is being considered by the state legislature. As the great philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot … Read the Rest
Kentucky Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyers Call for Independent Inspections of Deficient Nursing Homes
Posted in Featured Articles on January 27, 2012Kentucky lawyer J. Marshall Hughes today cited a new Center for Medicare Advocacy study in calling for independent inspections of deficient nursing homes to replace unreliable self-reporting by the facilities. “The finding that nursing care facilities already under special scrutiny because of … Read the Rest
Investment and Reverse Mortgage Scams Can Leave Seniors Bankrupt
Posted in Featured Articles on January 23, 2012Every year, older Americans, including residents of nursing homes and elder care facilities, lose billions of dollars to con artists who have carefully targeted them. In many cases, seniors are living off the savings they’ve built up over a lifetime of hard work. Even though the cost of living goes … Read the Rest
Insurance Issues Arise Following the Death of 87-Year-Old Nursing Home Resident
Posted in Featured Articles on January 18, 2012In 2008, Susanna West was an 87-year-old resident at Hearthstone Assisted Living Facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan – until staff left her on a bus for 14 hours in September 2008. West grew so hungry and thirsty that she opened the first aid kit and ate the Tylenol and drank the peroxide, … Read the Rest
Kentucky Group Pushing Medical Review Panels
Posted in Featured Articles on December 30, 2011The Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities has proposed legislation that would require all potential lawsuits against nursing homes to be evaluated by a medical review panel before going to trial. The panel would consist of three physicians chosen by the parties. They argue that this … Read the Rest
Questions Arise About Residents’ Health and Safety at Care Home in Lexington
Posted in Featured Articles on December 30, 2011The Messner Home, a care home in Lexington, KY, housing more than 70 men, most of them mentally ill or developmentally disabled, is under investigation by the state over living conditions in the facility’s three buildings, according to news reports. Ralph Messner, 77, the owner of the home, … Read the Rest
Kentucky AG Reviews Claims Of Abuse At Danville Nursing Home
Posted in Featured Articles on December 22, 2011The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office is reviewing a Type A citation that was issued last summer to Charleston Health Care Center, a nursing home in Danville. Type A is the state’s most serious nursing home citation, issued in cases where a resident’s life or safety has been endangered due … Read the Rest
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