Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006. St. Louis, MO - Over the last five years, the number of serious problems detected in the nation's nursing homes has dropped. After decades of stressing the need to protect vulnerable nursing home residents, that seemed like an overdue bit of good news. It wasn't. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reported ... [More >>]
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Government Accountability Office. GAO-06-117 Highlights-PDF | PDF] Since 1998, GAO has issued numerous reports on nursing home quality and safety that identified significant weaknesses in federal and state oversight. Under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), states conduct annual nursing home inspections, known as surveys, to assess ... [More >>]
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005. Analysis of HealthGrades’ Ratings of 15,375 Nursing Homes Echoes GAO Report. Signs of Progress Minimal but Evident Golden, CO. - Nursing home deficiencies causing actual harm to residents declined from 7.0 percent to 6.5 percent from 2003 to 2004, while patient abuse remained stable at 17 percent of complaints, according to ... [More >>]
Monday, July 11th, 2005. Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that jobs for direct-care workers in long-term care settings will grow by about 800,000 by 2010, or roughly 45 percent, while more than 1 million new and replacement nurses will be needed across the entire medical field by 2012. ... [More >>]
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005. When conducting research about nursing homes in your state, it is helpful to know how the facilities fared during their recent inspections, especially with regard to deficiencies or complaints. Many states have recognized this need for performance data by posting "report cards" of various types online for consumers to access and ... [More >>]
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005. Attorney General Mike Cox announced Wednesday the findings of two studies conducted in 2005 on Michigan's adult residential care facilities. The studies revealed that about 10 percent of the employees caring for residents at these facilities have criminal backgrounds. Read the full text of the article >>
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005. Lansing, MI -- A yearlong study by Attorney General Mike Cox has revealed that workers accused or convicted of felonies such as abuse, illegal drug use and other offenses are caring for vulnerable, elderly patients despite state efforts to screen nursing home and adult foster care workers. His findings parallel those ... [More >>]
Monday, February 14th, 2005. A recent review by the Tulsa World reveals that some 83% of cases brought before the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators, the state board that regulates nursing home abuse, were dismissed. The board handles licensing, disciplining, and regulating nursing home administrators in Oklahoma. Many of ... [More >>]
