According to an article on the StandardSpeaker.com, Carbon County, PA commissioners announced that they have signed a letter of intent to sell the county-owned Weatherwood Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center to Guardian Health Care of Jefferson County. The sale is expected to be closed on July 1. Once negotiations on…
On March 17, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that $5 million in punitive damages was awarded to the widow of a man who suffered fatal bedsores stemming from care he received in Jeanes Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia and the Hillcrest Convalescent Home in Wyncote. According to the article, the elderly man…
According to an update on 6ABC.com, Adelphia Personal Care Home in West Philadelphia has been shut down. Residents and medical equipment were removed after the PA State Dept. of Public Welfare stated that conditions in the home posed “an immediate and serious danger to the lives and health” of the…
According to an article on the News-Sentinel.com, the Indianapolis Star made some startling discoveries when it reported that 35 out of 52 of Indiana’s for-profit nursing home chains rank as the state’s most poorly performing homes. The Star analyzed documents and data compiled by regulators and found that many of…
The Boston Globe recently reported that 28 percent of Massachusetts nursing home residents were given antipsychotic medication in 2009, according to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. However, of that group, more than one out of every five did not have a medical condition that warranted…
According to EchoPress.com, of Alexandria, MN, the Minnesota Department of Health reported that three Minnesota nursing home residents were neglected when they were given the wrong medication, leading to the death of one resident. A report released by the Department of Health on the incidents at Fair Oaks Lodge in…
The Times-Tribune.com reported that according to county commissioners, there are no obstacles to closing the sale of the Lackawanna County Health Care Center to Millennium Management of Miami, FL. The sale was made public in March 2009 as a way to help the county’s deficit without tax increases or layoffs.…
On Feb. 18, the Schuylkill Elder Abuse Prevention Alliance held a training session at St. Clare of Assisi in Saint Clair. The purpose of the training session, that was attended by about a dozen local clergy members, was to help make the local clergy aware of resources for investigating reports…
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News reported on their website that on March 1, a federal database of potentially dangerous caregivers would become available to healthcare providers. However, it’s been reported that many disciplinary records are missing from it. The database consists of records from various state agencies as a way to…
In January, we blogged that Carbon County’s board of commissioners was putting the county-owned Weatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center up for sale. Now, a recent article on StandardSpeaker.com points out a pattern of unloading county-owned nursing homes as a way of reducing budget woes. According to the article, 50 Pennsylvania…