Family Files Wrongful-Death Lawsuit against Ohio Nursing Home Involving Dementia Patient Who Fell Down Embankment
Hayden Thorne walked undetected out of a Parma nursing home early one morning and fell 75 feet down a ravine, records show.
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Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Ohio Nursing Home Involving Dementia Patient Who Fell down Embankment
Hayden Thorne walked undetected out of a Parma nursing home early one morning and fell 75 feet down a ravine, records show.
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Michigan Nursing Home COVID-19 Patient asked ‘Alexa’ for Help before Death
In the days leading up to LouAnn Dagen’s death from COVID-19, the Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home patient repeatedly asked her Amazon Echo Show for help with her pain.
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NJ tells nursing homes: Be transparent about coronavirus, or we will out you
After complaints about a lack of transparency regarding outbreaks of the coronavirus in long-term care facilities in New jersey, the state Department of Health is issuing a clear directive on…
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Feds Propose $611,000 Fine at Seattle-area Nursing Home
Federal authorities have proposed a $611,000 fine for a Seattle-area nursing home connected to at least 40 coronavirus deaths.
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Bill Would Raise Fines for Not Reporting Elder Abuse in NJ
A bill is making its way through Trenton would increase fines on care homes and the people they employ, if they fail to report the suspected abuse or exploitation of…
Read More »CT Nursing Home Officials Bristle at Lamont Suggestion to Send Hospital Patients to Nursing Facilities
When the number of positive coronavirus cases sailed past 400 this week, Gov. Ned Lamont declared he had found additional beds to help aid the crush of patients expected to…
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New York Tells Nursing Homes They’ll Need to Take Coronavirus Patients Discharged from Hospitals, Report Says
New York told nursing-home operators that they will be required to accept patients infected with the new coronavirus who are discharged from hospitals but may be still convalescing, amid more…
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Hospitals Consider Universal Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders for Coronavirus Patients
Hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic are engaged in a heated private debate over a calculation few have encountered in their lifetimes — how to weigh the “save…
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Older Patients Stranded in Hospitals as Nursing Homes Turn Them Away over Coronavirus
Carl Schoen’s 99-year-old mother has lived in a nursing home for five years and on March 13, she was taken to the emergency room at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena…
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