A nursing home has been cited for abuse and poor quality care after several incidents were caught on a hidden camera. The incidents involved punching and shoving patients, as well as throwing objects at them. Other nursing home caregivers were caught on their cell phones when they should have been providing care to their patients.

The system that rates nursing home facilities for their level of care has a flaw that promotes therapy beyond a patient’s need or ability. Since nursing homes are partially rated for their care per patient per minutes of care offered, patients sometimes receive therapy to add to those minutes of patient care. “The system really rewards high-intensity care,” said Harvard University expert on nursing-home spending.

One state’s nursing homes facilities seem to be on a downward trend of quality care for their patients. Upon receiving grades requiring improvement, the nursing homes are not provided better care, they are providing worse care. After receiving a grade of C and then downgrading to a D, the advocacy group providing the survey states that the main issue often lies with low staffing.  The state that is struggling requires a staffing rate of 2.7 hours per resident per day, while another state re…

A nursing home patient’s death has led to an investigation by the attorney general’s office. Enough questions were raised related to the death to alert authorities, but few details have been released. Family members are also not saying anything at this time.  The nursing home facility has a few issues cited against it from past inspections related to hygiene and slow response time.

A nursing home is under scrutiny for the death of a patient after conflicting reports emerged. The nursing home did not properly file paperwork in a timely manner. The administrator said she was not made aware until days after.

A former office manager has been convicted of fraud after stealing funds from four different patients at the nursing home facility where she worked. The nursing home employee forged the administrators name and signed checks made out to her own name or to cash. The theft was found through an audit of the accounting books.  The employee tried to cover the fraudulent checks by putting reimbursement items in the memo lines, such as wheelchair repairs.