A state lawmaker is fighting to pass a law allowing cameras in nursing home patient rooms. He believes it will reduce the abuse that he is convinced still occurs in nursing home facilities. Addressing concerns of privacy, a family member says anyone against the camera in a nursing home must have something to hide.

A family was awarded $1.2 million in damages due to the abuse of a loved one in a nursing home.    The patient was 96 years old.  Family members were concerned about missing items and installed a camera to identify a potential thief. Instead, the family caught more than stealing on camera.

One state is notably ranked next to worst with the second largest amount of fines in the country.   Fines total more than $9 million.  The state has been ranked 49 out of 51 for the worst nursing home care in the country. The same state also received an “F” grade for nursing home quality care.  Information is based on a report by Families for Better Care.  All 51 states were assessed and ranked for their nursing home care quality.

A family is pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit after a patient died just a month after being admitted to a nursing home.  She was admitted for rehabilitation, but after one week spent at the facility, she became severely dehydrated.  The patient was admitted to the hospital with hallucinations and confusion brought on by the dehydration. Upon being hospitalized and admitted back into the nursing home, she died just 11 days later.  The family’s attorney had this to stay, “She went f…

The five star rating matrix measuring the quality of care in nursing homes is planning to change what factors create ratings for facilities.  Factors involve the integration of antipsychotic drug use and length of use as part of an effort to reduce the amount of issues involved Long-term care agencies are for the change, while nursing homes show concern over the changing factors. Long-term care advocates want to see the change to continue efforts to reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs in …

Two nursing homes are being pressured to improve based on deficiencies identified by federal nursing home agencies.  One inspection a facility in question noting, “the facility failed to ensure appropriate treatment and services to restore as much normal bladder function as possible” for residents experiencing bladder issues. The same nursing home was cited for 41 deficiencies due to mismanagement of residents’ funds and failure to treat and care for bed sores. Another neighboring facility …