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improving nursing home conditions and preventing neglect and abuse. He said the self-reported complaints reflect an understaffed workforce “dealing with the toughest patients.” “This...
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Palestine Howze died April 14, 2020, in a North Carolina nursing home. She had developed a pressure ulcer — or bed sore as they're commonly known. It flared up in December 2018 and just...
This story was updated 2:45 p.m. Thursday ; A new lawsuit claims that chronic neglect and a botched response by a Salisbury nursing home fueled one of North Carolina’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19. ; The complaint, filed Tuesday in Mecklenburg Superior Court, also provides a glimpse into pandemic hell. ; Over its 20 pages, the court filing presents a virtual real-time account of how the outbreak seemingly overwhelmed The Citadel Salisbury and helped turn rural Rowan County into one of North Carolina’s worst COVID-19 hot spots.
3417 comments ; The Canadian military has drawn the curtain back on horrific allegations of elder abuse in five Ontario long-term care homes, with precise, graphic reports of residents being bullied, drugged, improperly fed and in some cases left for hours and days in soiled bedding. Within the military's shocking catalogue of abuse, neglect and cruelty is an accusation that delinquent care led to the death of a resident. Soldiers were called into the facilities as part of an effort to backstop the provincial system, which has been overwhelmed ...
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so. The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation's roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to provide high-quality care. Spurred by disproportionate deaths from COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, the ...
ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She raised four children and buried two husbands. ; But years in an assisted living facility drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care at Dogwood Village, a nonprofit, county-owned nursing home here. ; “You think you’ve got enough money to last all your life, and here I am,” Jacobs said. ; Medicaid pays for about two-thirds of the 1.4 million elderly people in nursing homes, like Jacobs. It covers 20 percent of all Americans, and 40 percent of poor adults.
In 2017, inspectors from the Long Term Care Institute found several instances of neglect... Joan Clifford, the Bedford VA hospital director who also oversees the nursing home, defended the...
veteran who died of COVID-19 last June, says Cuomo’s nursing home order was ‘open ticket’ for facilities to neglect loved ones, treat veterans without honor. Democratic New Jersey...