Residents in the west wing of the White Building at Mountain City Nursing Home in Hazle Township were evacuated to the east wing when a heater in a stairway caused a fire and smoke. According to an article on the StandardSpeaker.com, the fire stopped as soon as maintenance workers turned…
A recent article on CumberLink.com has great news for the home health care industry: officials report that the demand for home health care workers will increase by 70% as baby boomers reach retirement age. With seniors older than 85 years of age becoming the fastest growing group in the state,…
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As anyone who has worked for the law offices of O’Connor Law will tell you, Halloween is one of our favorite holidays. Staff and attorneys go all out, to come up with creative and eye-catching costumes. And this year was no exception. Office festivities included prizes for best costume. There…
Late last month, USAToday.com posted an alarming article that we thought we would recap in our nursing home abuse blog. The article reports that according to an investigation by USA Today, thousands of residents at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across the country have had money taken from…
Last week, Butler County hired a real estate firm to evaluate the possible sale of Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the county-owned nursing home. Although the commissioners agree that the home is a valuable resource to the community, the numbers tell a different story. According to an article on TribLive.com,…
Smartphones have brought a lot of conveniences to our lives, and now they may be saving lives. We read an interesting article published on HealthDay.com this week about a new study that shows doctors who used their smartphones or mobile devices to look up drug information when they were prescribing…
A certified nursing assistant who worked in a Seaford, Delaware nursing home, was found guilty of patient abuse and mistreatment of an impaired adult and must stay away from nursing home facilities. According to an article on NBCPhiladelphia.com, the nursing assistant put a trash bag over the head of a…
There’s been an increasing trend here in Pennsylvania of counties that are selling their government-owned nursing homes to private companies. The end result is to help save the county money, but sometimes it is at the expense of the care provided to residents. However, the Claremont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center…
A new report suggests that expansion of a program that delivers meals to seniors could help keep them out of nursing homes and save states money. According to an article on U.S. News & World Reports, if each state in the continental United States increased the number of seniors who…