According to a recent report, patients' lives at Life Care Center Post Falls were at risk. Reports state that the care was inadequate, and the corrective action was sporadic. An Idaho Department of Health and Welfare report describes some of the violations.
The number of reported health and safety deficiencies at Ohio nursing homes has recently doubled between the years of 2014 and 2018, from nearly 4,000 reported citations to about 8,000 cases.According to a recent report by the Ohio Health Department which regularly inspects those facilities, the number of deficiencies that caused actual harm to residents — as opposed to those that only created the potential for harm — also increased steadily over that time from 187 reported cit…
In a recent report by the online newspaper Mahoning Matters, hundreds of pages of inspection reports for t28 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Mahoning County were investigated. One noteworthy issue was Beegly Oaks Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, which was note with a much below average according to Medicare.gov, which gave the facility a one star rating. Since July 2016, it has been fined over six thousand dollars and cited for more than forty-seven deficiencys …
An Illinois nursing home was recently fined $25,000 by the state in connection with a violation falling into the high-risk category. The Champaign Rehab Center failed to assess the resident's feet and obtain treatments for a resident with Type 2 diabetes and peripheral vascular disease, according to an Illinois Department of Public Health report from August 2019. That failure resulted in the resident being admitted to the hospital with gangrene, which required an above-the-knee …
They say that the best advice comes from those with years of experience. A recent article by a Madison, Wisconsin news team stated that some nursing home residents in Wisconsin spoke from the heart to give some relationship advice ahead of Valentine's Day. Oak Park Place got together a few relationship experts and shared their advice on Facebook in an adorable post.For more information, read here.
According to a recent article by Skilled Nursing News online, since the landmark passage of a sweeping oversight bill in the late 1980s, hundreds of nursing homes in the United Staes have been forced to close. Of those facilities that remain, many have increasingly taken on more difficult medical cases, according to new research report out of Brown University.The analysis, focused on the effects of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA ’87) through 2015, was published this we…
