A nursing home patient is dead after falling, breaking a leg, and being left for hours in the dining room. The patient was not treating immediately after the fall, but was later taken to the emergency room. The state health department conducted an investigation and found that the nurse’s aide felt “rushed” and neglected to follow the patient’s care plan for a assisting the patient in and out of bed with a mechanical lift and two staff members.

A nursing home recently was in danger of harming all of its 130 residents. The facility had been relying on an emergency generator for about six months until it failed in January, leaving the home with no heat in the middle of the winter. The facility running with no heat only lasted a few hours, but still almost had the residents evacuating.

Deciding on a nursing home to reside your loved one may seem hard, but there are many sources to help make the selection easier. For example, all nursing facilities are inspected every 9-15 months to ensure rules and regulations set by the federal and state government are being followed. After inspections, facilities can be rated out of one to five stars, receiving citations if rules and regulations are not followed.

A nursing home death resulted in the charges of nine health care workers. Only one of the nine workers pleaded guilty to violation of public health laws. The same worker was expected to monitor the former resident for an hour sometime during the night.

From 2009 to 2013 a nursing home failed to pay their health aide employees the wages they earned. The employees were continuously told they would be paid back throughout those years, but it never happened. Finally, the two people who were running the facility were held accountable for cheating their employees out of money and are being made to pay $80,000 in back wages.

A nursing home chain located all over the United States has been taking advantage of the Medicare program. The main problem with the way they are running the facility involves unnecessary expenditures. These facilities have been putting residents in excessive physical treatments that are not appropriate for their needs, costing the United States government unnecessarily.