Bedsores affect older patients at a disproportional rate, especially those who are immobile or have a disability that requires assistance for mobility. In some cases, the elderly patient will sustain a pressure sore from their weight, commonly on a pressure point of contact. The severity of the pressure sore can range from stage one to four.
A 2016 study from Elijay LLP, a national accounting and consulting firm, ranked Wisconsin as having the highest daily shortfall per Medicaid patient in the United States. A Milwaukee-based Fortis Management Group that operates sixty-five long term care centers in six states filed for receivership in July 2017 and closes its Milwaukee headquarters in the fall of 2018.In Wisconsin, a total of thirty-four facilities in the state have either closed or are in the process of closing since 2016. Indust…
More than three million elderly Americans are in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Unfortunately, reports have shown that around seventeen percent of these residents experience abuse or neglect every year. Physical, sexual, psychological abuse, financial exploitation, neglect and resident to resident abuse in these facilities are things for loved ones to be aware of.For more information, read here.
A 2016 study from Elijay LLP, a national accounting and consulting firm, ranked Wisconsin as having the highest daily shortfall per Medicaid patient in the United States. A Milwaukee-based Fortis Management Group that operates sixty-five long term care centers in six states filed for receivership in July 2017 and closed its Milwaukee headquarters in the fall of 2018.In Wisconsin, a total of thirty-four facilities in the state have either closed or are in the process of closing since 2016. Indust…
A 66-year-old male patient bled to death at the Aperion Care in Forest Park, a Chicago nursing home, after receiving inadequate care from the facility following his kidney transplant a month earlier. Before his preventable death, the family stated that doctors were pleased with the man's recovery. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Aperion Care in Forest Park has remained chronically understaffed.The nursing home was also noted of having issues with medication e…
Police in San Diego, California arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 88-year-old elderly female patient in a nursing home in Hillcrest on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The suspect, Lusean Arline, who was not an employee of the nursing home, was taken into custody by detectives.Arline, the suspect who entered the nursing home illegally, is currently being held on a parole violation. He will face multiple felony counts that include burglary, felony sexual assault, and elder abuse charge…
