There are several situations where a nursing home could be sued for a resident or patient injury. A nursing home or elder care facility can be held legally responsible for personal injury or medical malpractice lawsuit can be filed when an act of negligence, neglect, or abuse on the premises ends up causing harm to a patient or resident.There are countless accidents, intentional acts, and failures to act that may leave a nursing home or other care facility on the legal hook, either based on the …

A recent news article by AP News stated that coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes throughout Washington, Illinois, New Jersey and elsewhere are laying bare the industry’s long-running problems. The issues in question include a struggle to control infections, as well as the staffing crisis that relies on poorly paid aides who can’t afford to stay at home while sick.These issues came into focus at the deadliest single spot in the nation’s coronavirus crisis, the Life Care Cente…

Workers in Indiana’s nursing home industry often find themselves under intense pressure because the state has some of the lowest staffing levels in the entire country. That pressure is expressed in confidential interviews with state health inspectors. It can lead some to lie or falsify records when things go wrong.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has flagged more than 50 nursing homes in North and South Carolina, in recent months for past abuse and neglect. The allegations range from sexual abuse to a maggot infestation inside a resident's wound, according to federal inspection records. The warning, a red circle with a hand inside, is part of an effort by the federal government to better alert the public before a loved one is placed in a nursing home.The rolling alerts, that went in…

According to a Washington news station, the number of deaths linked to coronavirus in Washington state could be even higher than previously announced based on figures released by the nursing home at the center of the region's outbreak.At the time of the article publication, Trump stated he was ‘not concerned’ as coronavirus cases rise in DC area. Officials in Washington, D.C., say a man in his 50s has tested positive for coronavirus, marking the first confirmed case in the nation…

A Pennsylvania-based nursing home has agreed to pay more than $15.4 million to resolve mounting allegations of over billing for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services. The Department of Justice said that the False Claims Act allegations involved over billing Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program from 2011 through 2017.The company was accused of having multiple facilities throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio bill for patients at the highest level of…