Brooklyn Nursing Home and Staten Island Psychiatric Center Will Open as COVID Hospitals This Week
As 6sqft explained earlier, “with car accidents, construction accidents, trauma cases, and crime all down due to Cuomo’s New York State on PAUSE order,” early estimates that temporary overflow hospitals…
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NM Supreme Court rules against Nursing Home’s Requirement for Resolving Claims by Arbitration
The state Supreme Court Monday ruled that an Albuquerque nursing home’s arbitration agreement was invalid and unenforceable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a former resident’s family.
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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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A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators
On top of the overwhelming shortages of medical equipment required to combat Covid-19, there are now signs that medicines needed for patients who are placed on ventilators are also in…
Read More »Family Alleges Wrongful Death in Suit against Texas Nursing Homes
The cousin of a 79-year-old Waco man is suing four nursing home facilities, alleging negligent care caused the man’s death in May 2019.
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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…
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French Nursing Home Workers Quarantine with Residents
Medical personnel are being praised worldwide for their role on the front lines of the battle against the novel coronavirus, including in France, where posters with the word “Merci!” cover…
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Nurse Says Chicago Hospital Fired Her for Warning about Masks
A former nurse is suing a Chicago hospital for allegedly firing her in retaliation for warning colleagues that masks provided by the hospital to treat COVID-19 patients would not sufficiently…
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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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