Bush's Last-Minute Gift to Crappy Nursing Homes

Bush's Last-Minute Gift to Crappy Nursing Homes — By David Corn | Tue February 24, 2009 7: ... billion nursing-home industry occurred with no public notice or attention, perhaps because ... they are pursuing or defending. Wonder who asked for this rule change? Could it have been...the nursing home [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 15:45:16

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Philadelphia Pennsylvania Nursing Home Lawyer Wants You to Know: Bush-Whacked Your Ability to Learn What Really Happens in Nursing Homes

I’ve blogged before about President Bush’s flurry of “midnight regulations” designed to help his pro-business cronies ( http://www.shragerlaw ... in the Nursing Home industry in his “Still Bushed” segment on February 26, 2009. Here’s the short version. If you or a loved one are injured in a nursing home and you complain to regulatory authorities [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 14:14:31

Nursing Home Watchdogs were muted by Bush Regulation

The Bush administration shut off a source of information last fall about elderly abuse and neglect that people suing nursing homes consider crucial to their cases. The change that affects the nursing home industry occurred with no public notice ... rushed out before leaving. The rule designated state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 04:45:36

Respecting our elders: Nursing homes’ brighter future

To many, the thought of a “nursing home” conjures some of the worst images of aging: enfeebled, spoon-fed, stinking, forgotten ... living or nursing care home”, the NHoF team has undertaken an ambitions project that’s seeking both ... and 42-bed nursing-care facility in Providence, RI, have allowed the NHoF team intimate access [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 04:41:24

State attorney hopes to form nursing home death review team

DuPage County, Illinois officials are stepping up their investigations into allegations of physical abuse of elderly in nursing homes and in-home health care settings, spurred in part by the horrifying story ... deaths like Wentworth’s don’t happen in nursing homes. He is urging the Illinois Department on Aging [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 15:49:47

Nursing home cost is often the most expensive option

Nursing homes are generally stand-alone facilities, but some are operated within a hospital or retirement community. Nursing and medical attention are usually not provided on the premises. State licensure and the terminology used for this type of facility vary greatly. Nursing homes, with an average cost $77,745 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 16:22:39

Scratching Post Saturday Night - Healthcare Crisis plus a song for mercy

UPDATE:  Sheri tag sent a reminder for all Conflucians to set their timers for Murphy and Friends at 9PM, and as Sheri says: ... . The 67-year-old photographer has been confined to a nursing home for five years, the victim ... into a nursing home. They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 00:04:16

Rating Nursing Homes - A New Tool

A USA Today article titled Feds Rate U.S. Nursing Homes  reveals that non-profit facilities fared better than for-profit ones, ... , Nursing Home Compare  is administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, part ... on the rankings site, which focuses on facilities that are certified to participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Both [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 18:46:41

Federal Report Criticizes US Nursing Homes

A recent report published by the New York Times found that nearly 95% of American nursing homes had health or safety standard violations last year ... Americans live in a nursing home, and there are approximately 15,000 homes in the country. Typically ... in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 21:58:32

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 2/25/09

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 2/25/09 Everyday at LexBlog we try to think of new ways to get exposure for our clients ... of Porter Wright on the firm's Employer Law Report New Law Makes Prosecution Of Nursing Home Cases ... Nursing Home Lawyer Blog Rallies on Capitol Hill on the Performance Royalty - Who Will Pay [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 01:49:22

Obama's Best Plan Yet: No Taxes for Seniors

Sen. Barack Obama has relased his first plan I'm on board with: no income tax for seniors making less than $60,000 a year ... . And if they have to go into a nursing home, Social Security doesn't pay for that. A typical nursing home in Colorado is $6,500 a month ... is a huge amount of money to pay. The only break is if you end up in the nursing home after [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 13:40:00

New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes

The Bush administration shut off a source of information last fall about abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities that people suing nursing homes consider crucial to their cases. The change, which affects the $144 billion nursing-home ... designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees, a group usually [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 02:55:51

We’ve improved our site!

Here at www.ConcerningAging.com, we are always looking for ways to improve our site ... . If you are in the process of looking for a nursing home facility, try our new Nursing Home Comparison ... will assist you in making that all important long term care decision. Giving you details [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 14:32:17

New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes

The Bush administration shut off a source of information last fall about abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities that people suing nursing homes consider crucial to their cases. The change, which affects the $144 billion nursing-home ... The rule designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees, a group [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 01:00:33

Nurse Assitant Charged in Death of Nursing Home Resident

Awhile back I wrote about Sarah Wentworth, who unfortunately froze to death after being left outside the Arbor of Itasca Nursing Home in Itasca, ... term care facility resident, criminal neglect of an elderly person and obstructing justice. DuPage ... of a pattern of neglect committed by a woman entrusted with her care. According to the investigation [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 02:46:49

There are good nursing homes and bad ones

The operators of bad homes are reprehensible scum and as such it should have been anticipated that they would receive last minute protection from ... to their cases. The change that affects the $144 billion nursing-home industry occurred with no public notice ... designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees, a [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 17:56:00

New Nursing Home Ranking System Offers Guidance

If you are having trouble viewing this email with images, click here. OurAlzheimers ... Use New Medicare Facility Ranking System as a Tool Not a Rule Nursing home administrators are worried, and for good reason. The new Medicare nursing home comparing site at Medicare.gov/nhcompare [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 08:10:24

Orange County Nursing Home Negligence

An Anaheim nursing home has been fined $75,000 by the California Department of Health for incorrectly reporting that an elderly resident died of a ... found significant understatements of the care problems [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 20:31:44

Momentous Events (Patricia Potter)

Oh gee, Lynn's a hard act to follow. I have no great battle to report as she did ... important was the 99th birthday of my mom. She’s in a nursing home because nothing, except her mind ... by in a nursing home, and so she finally consented to a permanent. I'm here to report she loves [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 06:49:41

Feuer Introduces Three-Bill Package To Protect Seniors

California Chronicle - February 24, 2009 (Sacramento) – Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) ... , ensuring that nursing home abuse cases are investigated. AB 215 would help families seeking a nursing home for a loved one by requiring skilled nursing facilities prominently to post quality of care [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 00:45:00

New Rule Haults Nursing Home Cases

Before leaving office, the Bush administration shut off a source of information about abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities that people ... and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees. Previous to this designation, these workers were ... nursing-home residents and their families by allowing bad practices to be kept in secret by nurs [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 18:33:08

Dementia’s Dangers are Often Overlooked

Nursing homes are facing more challenges as they admit residents with dementia who are prone to have combative outburst ... can reduce the prospects of residents committing harm. Dementia care and memory care units should ... are able to meet the standards for elderly abuse and neglect. Nursing homes in Chicago, Illinois should [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 04:49:31

New rule makes obtaining nursing home information more difficult

A new rule issued in September by the Bush Administration has made a once routine process of obtaining information from ... . The rule designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees, which ... nursing homes to back up claims of abuse and neglect almost impossible. That juggernaut has people [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 14:48:57

Fairness for our Seniors: A Choice in Nursing Home Arbitration (Rep. Linda Sanchez)

During one of the many hearings I held on arbitration when I chaired the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL) ... , I listened to the testimony of a witness whose 92-year old grandmother sustained a broken leg while living in a nursing home. Her grandmother’s leg had been broken in two places with the ... [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 16:18:28

My Parents' Medicaid Eligibility

Returning to the subject of Medicaid: after the previous post talking about general Medicare and Medicaid issues, ... they qualify for Medicaid, but not all of it. The spouse who goes into a nursing home can keep a small ... here's more on the specific case of how my parents might pay for a nursing home... please [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:17:00

Lawyers speak out about Failing Nursing Homes

A trial lawyer who was represented many victims of elderly abuse and neglect has seen enough in America’s 15,000 nursing homes ... up to the substandard care that we are providing our elderly family members. To read this essay ... homes violated federal and health safety standards it is obvious that the elderly are suffering [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 16:25:32

Patrick.net launches sister site for nursing home information

The housing bubble blog Patrick.net recently launched a Web site oriented towards those families in need of information on nursing homes ... -approved health care plan called SCAN: SCAN Health Plan® is a "Medicare Advantage" HMO, serving ... and I had a hard time trying to quickly figure out the system, between Medicare, Medicaid, admissions policies [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 05:59:00

Scrutinize nursing homes - South Coast Today

I really enjoyed your article Feb. 22 on the restaurant inspections (”How safe are SouthCoast restaurants?”) ... . Now if we could have an inspection of all the nursing homes in our area, that would be a great help for all of the seniorsRead more of this article click here – restaurants - Live Search News [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 23:53:00

New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes

By Cindy Skrzycki Tuesday, February 24, 2009; D02 The Bush administration shut off a source of information last fall about abuse and neglect in ... . The change, which affects the $144 billion nursing-home industry, was enacted with no public notice ... . "Nobody was told. It was just done." The rule designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 01:54:00

Gov’s proposed long-term care unification to be discussed today in Senate

Today, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports : “The state Department of Aging could assume new responsibility for $4 ... -term care system suffering from fragmentation and inconsistencies. Acting Secretary of Aging Michael ... that would bring Medical Assistance funding of nursing home care and in-home services for both [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 16:45:16

California Family Alleges Nursing Home Negligence and Abuse

The family of 79-year-old Shirley Marion Renner has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Yuba City nursing home alleging negligence and abuse ... physical and emotional pain, desperation, abandonment, feelings of helplessness, anguish, shock ... and Alzheimer’s. Yuba Skilled Nursing Center gets only a rating of two out of five stars from the Medicare [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 08:11:51

NOAHH and Delaware North Raise the Walls on a New Home

Theresa Parker’s new home on Ferry Place began construction today ... in her new Habitat home, she also hopes to further her medical education.  This home, at 1312 ... . Parker, a 27-year-old nursing assistant at a nursing home, was at the wall raising ceremony along [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 22:03:22

What Does The Nursing Home Rating Mean?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently created an online tool to help people compare Nursing Homes ... to participate in Medicare or Medicaid and which provide a level of care which is considered "skilled". The ratings are based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. read more [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 21:18:55

Nursing Homes for the Rest of Us

Monika Graff for The New York TimesFrom left, physical therapist Miriam Parness leading residents Mack Savid, ... to imagine a nursing home that wouldn’t make baby boomers like themselves say, “Over my dead body.” ... Hyman Martin and Ken Hornreich in light exercise at the Jacob Reingold Pavilion at the Hebrew Home [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 16:52:22

Government unveils nursing home scores

By MICHAEL McAULIFFE mmcauliffe@repub.com The federal government unveiled its ranking of nursing homes from coast to coast Thursday, and only two facilities in the Pioneer Valley received the highest five-star rating. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 03:50:01

nursing home flowers

Yahoo Google & MSN News Web rating helps families choose nursing homeWilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - Dec 18, ... for their loved ones. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … The best site to find nursing home flowers information, news and a leading guide and resource for same day flower delivery [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 17:00:21

Best Healthcare Jobs

Whether as a vocational nurse , certified nurse assistant , medical assistant , registered nurse , anesthesia technician , dental assistant , ... technician, personal care assistant, home health aide Nurse practitioner---An RN with a master’ ... privileges and independent or collaborative medical practice. The Nursing Shortage: A Crisis in [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:57:59

Nursing Homes Rated on New Government Website

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a Website ranking nearly 16,000 nursing homes ... during each year to provide life-saving care,” CMS administrator Kerry Weems ... ... .  Reuters Health reports that this is the first-ever federally-managed Website that ranks nursing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:48:57

Coverage of nursing home rankings varies

Last week the  the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released new ratings for nursing homes - both for-profit and nonprofit - that uses a ... to the ranking in a Zagat restaurant guide - serves up a local angle on what is actually a national issue [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 14:35:54

It’s On the Tip of My Tongue

For me, right now, Spirituality is like the name of that band who plays the old song you’re listening to, ... in the nursing home and I had to go (Who doesn’t these days) off the entire nursing home property [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 09:50:56

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 2/13/09

Another great week at LexBlog, one myself and Jared Sulzdorf spent attempting to boost the Lexmonitor Twitter feed ... of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog "Green" nursing homes are a big success with residents - Spartanburg lawyer Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm's South Carolina Nursing Home Blog [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 01:36:04

Aftermath, Gaza's forgotten Elderly: Palestinian Center for Human Rights

At the nursing home of Al Wafaa Hospital in the northeastern Gaza Strip, frail women lie curled in their beds, most of them bedridden. In Gaza's close-knit society, nursing homes are not very common, as most people prefer to care for their elderly family members at home. [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 00:30:57

Deal averts Allegan nursing home closure

ALLEGAN -- A Southfield company has agreed to take over a nursing home that lost its Medicaid and Medicare funding and was facing possible revocation of its state license. The tentative deal reached [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 11:30:18

Doylestown Non-profit Offers Elderly a New Option in Assisted Living

Health Quality Partners is a small non-profit in Doylestown that coordinates care for chronically ill Medicare patients ... and hospitals. This program also focuses on the patients’ “care transition”; the time spent adjusting to home life after being in assisted care or a nursing home. Health Quality Partners has seen [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 15:35:22

Firecracker! March 09

I’m back and blogging! In February, I went to Thailand to attend the CMDA-CME conference. It is designed to give physicians and nurses ( ... afternoons include visits to nursing homes, countryside clinics, and a Shenyang city charitable clinic [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 00:42:49

CMS Puts Pressure on Nursing Homes to Prevent Bed Sores

CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has published new guidelines regarding pressure sores (decubitus ulcers). SNFs ( ... preventable. Therefore, all nursing homes under the Medicare/Medicaid program will receive amplified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:35:00

How to analyze $1 trillion in 700 words

I recieved a really smart analysis of Obama’s proposed healthcare reform budget ... Medicare home health payments”—the savings assumption here is not very clear, but maybe reflects acute care and nursing home care savings from better access to home health care • $19.6 billion from higher [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:12:37

Target Your Direct Mail

Famous American copywriter, the late Gary Halbert taught the A pile / B pile theory for direct mail ... coaching and consultancy firm working from home. But the nursing homes in the big houses near here [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 12:16:33

Wrestling Legend Accused in Nursing Home Death

Authorities say Ex-wrestling champ Verne Gagne, 82 and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, apparently body-slammed a 97-year-old fellow patient at the suburban nursing home where they both lived, causing the man's death. [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 21:07:28

Women’s History Month Daily Thread

Hat tip:djchefron From Newsweek A Forgotten Contribution Before Rosa Parks, ... Today, Colvin is 69 years old and is a retired nursing-home nurse living in New York City—her bold [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 17:00:39

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