NY Nursing Home Fined $24K for Sexual Assaults on Two Residents with Dementia
A Buffalo nursing home operated by Erie County Medical Center has been fined $24,508 this year for not preventing sexual assaults on two residents with dementia.
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US DOL Proposes $38K in Fines for IL Healthcare Facility Where Workers Weren’t Fully Protected from COVID
An inspection at a Byron rehabilitation and post-acute care facility found the healthcare facility did not comply with federal respiratory protection requirements in the facility’s quarantine area and failed to…
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Scientists think tuberculosis can spread in aerosols, upending understanding of disease
The conventional understanding of the spread of tuberculosis, a deadly infectious disease that claimed the lives of more than 1.5 million people last year, was upended on Tuesday after South…
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Berries, mixed foods may raise Listeria risk for LTC facilities, outbreak analysis finds
Nursing homes may want to step up their food safety vigilance to protect against Listeria bacterial infections, suggests a sweeping new report on healthcare-associated foodborne outbreaks.
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Texas Nurse Convicted of Killing 4 Men with Air Injections
A Texas nurse was convicted Tuesday of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say he injected them with air following heart surgeries.
Read More »NY Senate GOP Calls for Plan to Fix Staffing at Nursing Homes
Republicans in the state Senate are calling for a package of fixes to solve staffing problems at nursing homes in New York, backing proposals that range from cost-of-living adjustments for…
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COVID in Minnesota: National Guard to Assist at Long-Term Care Facilities
Gov. Tim Walz on October 15 announced he would enlist the Minnesota National Guard to help with a long-term care staffing shortage that’s impacting hospitals’ ability to keep their bed…
Read More »Jury Acquits Nurse Charged in Death of Patient at Ohio Nursing Home
A Franklin County jury acquitted a nurse of involuntary manslaughter and patient neglect, more than two years after she and six other workers at a Northwest Side nursing home were…
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Use of Post-Acute Care by Medicare Beneficiaries with a Diagnosis of Dementia
Hospitalized patients with dementia transitioning to post-acute care may be particularly vulnerable to changes in post-acute care utilization driven by payment reforms; however, use of post-acute care in this population…
Read More »Breakthrough infections might not be a big transmission risk. Here’s the evidence.
Conventional wisdom says that if you’re vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection with the coronavirus, you can transmit that infection to someone else and make that person sick. But…
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