An article in this week’s Patriot-News of Harrisburg gives some helpful tips on choosing the right type of elder care for a loved one. As anyone who has gone through the process knows, it’s not an easy decision to make. That’s why we found the tips in this article particularly…
One of our neighbor states to the south, West Virginia, just reported a huge settlement awarded to an elderly woman’s family after it was discovered that nursing home workers indirectly caused her death through neglect. According to the West Virginia Gazette, the jury found that workers at Heartland of Charleston…
The wait is over…a redesign of the federal government’s Nursing Home Compare website has been completed. The website, maintained and updated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is an online tool that helps families to better evaluate nursing homes. The redesign features 21 new criteria that measure the…
While temperatures outside having been rising, temperatures inside one wing of Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chambersburg approached 90 degrees. And it’s a problem some say has plagued the Franklin County nursing home for years. According to PublicOpinionOnline.com, one day a wall thermometer in a patient’s room showed…
According to a new study, nursing home patients who start a new prescription for some antidepressants, or those who have increased their dosage, are at a higher risk for falls. An article in U.S. News & World Report discusses these findings in a study conducted by the Institute for Aging…
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that black patients are more likely to develop pressure ulcers in nursing homes where there are predominantly more black patients than white patients. An article on Reuters.com quotes the study author, Yue Li, as saying, “In…
It was only a matter of time before wireless mobile devices, the same technology that allows us to talk via cell phone and connect to the internet without a cable, found a way to help the elderly in our communities. McKnights.com recently published an article about how researchers are using…
We often keep up on the articles published on McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living (mcknights.com) because they post many informative articles on the nursing home industry. In fact, an article was just published last week explaining that in West Virginia, nursing homes cannot use arbitration agreements as a…
The AltoonaMirror.com reported some good news for Cambria Care Center in Ebensburg: they are no longer at risk for losing their Medicare agreement, according to a letter from the state Department of Health. In March, a fatal assault involving two dementia patients prompted an inspection that uncovered deficiencies at the…
Disturbing details have emerged about the White Owl Manor personal care home in Mahanoy City that caused state officials to close the facility on Friday. According to the RepublicanHerald.com, the home failed to report the deaths of three residents in June. “We issued an emergency relocation order this morning. We…