About 10 private companies may be interested in purchasing Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a county-owned home in Franklin County. According to an article on Herald-Mail.com, the home could sell for an estimated $6.5 million to $9.3 million. With seven other skilled nursing facilities in the county, the commissioners…
The Schuylkill Center in Pottsville has something to brag about. Last week, it received the state’s second annual “Awards for Excellence in Health Care Compliance” from Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Michael Wolf. Earlier this month, we had blogged that the death of a Weatherly nursing home resident was ruled a…
The Schuylkill Center in Pottsville has something to brag about. Last week, it received the state’s second annual “Awards for Excellence in Health Care Compliance” from Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Michael Wolf. In addition to the Schuylkill Center, the Pennsylvania Hospital Skill Care Center in Philadelphia also won the award.…
It’s a family’s worst nightmare: the death of resident at the Weatherwood Nursing Home in Weatherly has been ruled a homicide by the Luzerne County Coroner’s Office. In an article on WNEP.com, a report by the coroner says that the 86-year-old female resident was allegedly pushed by another resident on…
The attorneys and staff of O’Connor Law pride themselves on keeping up-to-date on their areas of practice. This week, Attorney Dave Miller is attending the New Jersey Association for Justice’s Boardwalk Seminar 2013 in Atlantic City, NJ. The two and a half day training event includes in-depth educational lectures on…
The other week we read a thought-provoking op-ed piece in The Patriot-News of Central PA (PennLive.com) that reminds us what a difficult decision it is when we can no longer care for an elderly loved one and must move them into a nursing home. Even when we’ve done our research…
There is good news this week for elderly residents of Schuylkill County who are in need of elder care but want to stay in their own homes: the Home Instead Senior Care office in Pottsville announced that it will be hiring 30 caregivers to its existing staff this year. This…
Earlier this month, The Mercury of Pottstown reported that in Pennsylvania, adult children could be sued for their parent’s nursing home bill after the PA Supreme Court declined to review the lower court decisions in the case of HCRA v. Pittas. According to the article, the decisions were based on…
This week the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that said the cost of treating Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia is $109 billion, more than the cost of treating cancer or heart disease. An article on CNN.com reported that according to the study, the costs will more…
There’s been much debate recently regarding the overmedicating of nursing home patients with dementia. But new research shows that it is safe to take most dementia residents off of antipsychotic drugs without behavioral consequences. According to an article on McKnights.com, the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, part of the…