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Nursing Home Abuse
When you choose a nursing home, you expect this facility to provide high-quality care for your elderly loved one. This care includes meeting daily needs, offering appropriate medical care, and ensuring your loved one’s safety and overall well-being. Nursing homes have an important responsibility to you and your loved ones,…
Nursing homes have a responsibility to protect and care for your loved one. However, many facilities have failed to provide this care, due to an improper response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of July 2020, approximately 126,402 nursing home residents have contracted the coronavirus nationwide, resulting in 35,517 deaths. These…
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization City Limits reported on August 26, 2019, that an investigation of nursing homes in New York found that nearly three-quarters of the skilled nursing facilities were rated “Below Average” or “Much Below Average” for staffing by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While there have…
State officials have been put on notice by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the federal government’s top healthcare watchdog. The agency has called on New York state officials to strengthen their enforcement of nursing home safety rules. This action was taken…
The New York Times reported on September 11, 2019, that nursing homes were playing a pivotal role in the spread of Candida auris (C. auris), a highly contagious, drug-resistant fungus, in New York. Dr. Tom Chiller, the head of the fungal division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
When the Senate released a June report indicated over 400 nursing homes had been cited for various infractions over the past few years, it did not attract nearly the national attention that it should have. Though garnering an article in a few newspapers, most people seemed to take it for…
When making the difficult decision of what to do with an aging loved one, we do not just place the person we care about in a long-term care facility, we also place our trust in that facility. We take it for granted that the staff will be properly trained and…
An Oswego nursing home is in the news for failing to seek proper care for patients suffering from emergent conditions, resulting in at least two deaths. Though this facility is attracting the attention, these types of situations occur statewide, and residents are the ones who suffer due to these delays….
The nursing home crisis in New York State continues to rage on, with more and more facilities being shut down or fined due to egregious mistakes. One particularly harrowing story regarding an elderly care facility in Buffalo attracted the attention of CMS (Center for Medicaid Services), which fined the organization…
Candida auris has finally made the big time, receiving front page treatment from the New York Times after a Brooklyn man died from the fungal infection and his hospital room was completely blanketed with the dangerous microbes. Dealing with C. auris is extremely difficult as the fungus is highly resistant…
