Former Nurse’s Aide Paroled after Serving 30 Years for Role in 1987 Michigan Nursing Home Deaths
More than thirty years after pleading guilty and being imprisoned for her role in the murders of five residents in a Michigan nursing home, one of the two aides imprisoned…
Read More »Employee of Pennsylvania Home Healthcare Service Provider Pleads Guilty in Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy
A 54-year-old Pennsylvania man recently pleaded guilty in federal court to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and healthcare fraud. During his plea hearing, the…
Read More »Tennessee Doctor Faces Charges in $7 Million Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy
A Tennessee physician, who operated as a consulting provider for a Florida-based telehealth and marketing company and a physician staffing company located in Georgia, faces federal charges for his role…
Read More »Owner of Michigan Counseling Treatment Center Charged with Medicaid Fraud
Michigan’s Attorney General (AG) recently announced the filing of 20 felony counts of Medicaid Fraud against the owner of a counseling treatment center. The charges resulted from an investigation that…
Read More »OIG Cites Minnesota VA Hospital for Failure to Prevent Veteran’s Suicide
A recently released report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) disclosed that a Minnesota Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital had been cited for the second time in two years for…
Read More »Resident in New York Nursing Home Arrested for Alleged Assault on 9-Year-Old Girl
Police have confirmed that a 77-year-old resident in a New York nursing home was arrested and is being held on a $100,000 bond for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl visiting…
Read More »Flooding Causes Temporary Closing and Forces New York Nursing Home to Lay off 132 Employees
All of the 132 employees at a New York nursing home are being laid off due to the facility’s temporary closing. The New York Department of Labor lists the reason…
Read More »Paraplegic Resident in Oklahoma Nursing Home Claims He Was Wrongfully Discharged
A 34-year-old paraplegic resident in an Oklahoma nursing home claims he was not allowed back into the nursing home after he returned from a short stay in the hospital on…
Read More »Long-Term Care Facilities Not Unscathed by Opioid Diversion and Abuse
Hardly a week passes without a news story on the effects that the growing opioid crisis is having across the U.S. Although most reports deal with a younger population, the…
Read More »CDC Reports New Antibiotic Resistant Strain of Clostridiodes Difficile Identified in 15 Patients at Veteran Affairs (VA) Facilities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that 15 patients in VA facilities were infected with a newly recognized strain of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) that is…
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