In the National Law Review, a recent online article discusses the potential signs of bedsores in nursing homes and how they often are a sign of neglect. Bedsores, or pressure ulcers, are unfortunately a common occurrence in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The Federal Government stated in 42 C.F.R.
According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, two nursing homes were fined as a part of a quarterly report for violations. The reports state that in the months from July to September of 2019, it cited 71 Illinois facilities for various violations in regards to the Nursing Home Care Act. The Nursing Home Care Act was implemented to ensure that nursing home residents and their families will have proper care provided by the facilities. Eastside Health and Rehabilitation Center in Pitt…
According to a New York Times article, Ethel Paley, passed on November 18, 2019 in her Manhattan home at the age of 99. Paley was known for her guidance of residents and their surrogates in the nursing home and health care system. Paley was a social worker who for 35 years fought to advocate for the rights of nursing home patients and their families. Paley dedicated her career to Friends and Relatives of the Institutionalized Aged (FRIA), a nonprofit organization she founded and directed in…
Over the past few years, the federal government has focused on staffing as an area of improvement for nursing homes, requiring the operators to provide payroll-based evidence for their labor hours. This was based on the assumption that there’s a direct line between staffing and quality of care in these skilled nursing facilities. Yet, a recent study argues that when SNFs self-disclosed this information, care by the staff did not improve even when staffing had reportedly increased. Acc…
According to the Buffalo News, an eighty-two-year-old New York man named Frank L. Williams did not have bedsores when he left Kenmore Mercy Hospital and entered into a nursing home after suffering from a stroke. Four months after admission to the facility, the retired iron-worker returned to the hospital with seven bedsores on the lower half of his body.
An 85-year-old woman with dementia was admitted to a Virginia Memory Care Center on November 7, 2013. At the time of admittance, the female patient did not need help with walking but required assistance with bathing and dressing. By March of 2014, the patient was noted by the facility of needing a wheelchair and assistance with walking.
