A medical center is being sued by a patient for leaving his growing bedsores undiagnosed and untreated. He was admitted to a different facility where he a bilateral knee replacement was to be performed. However, while a patient there he had a skin breakdown which led to the development of his ulcers, or bedsores.

A fire at a nursing home was discovered and contained in only one room of the facility, which was their room designated for smoking. The facilities local police department investigation of the fire is now in progress, but has found so far that at the time of the fire the facility’s smoke alarms, fire doors, and sprinklers were not in the proper condition. The fire that occurred at this nursing home resulted in a patient’s death.

After a nursing home resident’s death, there was interest in an investigation to review what the facility was doing wrong and what needed to change to better the facility. The police decided to investigate the death of the former resident and ten days later the state health department investigators ran a two-day investigation at the facility. The nursing home serves 103 residents and is two years removed from an inspection that reported 53 deficiencies against them.

A nursing home facility has recently been under police investigation after a patient residing there died from a traumatic accident. The patient was in her wheelchair and fell unsupervised down a staircase where she was later found dead by a staff member. The family of the patient who died is very disappointed with the nursing home for allowing this happen.

Nursing homes are made for elderly people who need safe environments to live in because they can no longer live on their own or their families can no longer care for them. One state’s records show that over the past couple of years the homes for these elderly people are being taken away from them by either being closed or sold, and they and their families are having no say in the matter and are not being forewarned that it’s going to happen. Many nursing home patients are being left by facilitie…

Medicare funding is meant to increase the quality of nursing home care.  However, in reality Medicare funding is inadvertently creating a negative effect on the quality care.  Nursing homes are rushing to receive funding for short-term patients, because it brings in the largest amount of dollars. The issue with this is that facilities are equipped for long-term care and often do not have the skilled staff or level of staffing to assist with hospital transitions and patient needs relate…