A maintenance worker at an assisted-living facility in Albany, New York was fired and then arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of a 91 year-old resident. Media coverage of the incident has indicated that the man is a registered sex offender with convictions from the 1980’s for rape and other…
A recent New York Times article examined some of the differences in services between for-profit and non-profit nursing homes. Some research over the past few decades has suggested that for-profit facilities, by seeking to minimize expenses, may be at a disadvantage to nonprofit facilities in terms of quality of care.…
There is a growing population of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) seniors who face certain challenges in addition to those that come with growing older. Although a growing number of states now have legislation protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in areas such as education,…
A recent review of norovirus outbreaks in nursing homes found a correlation between outbreaks and higher rates of both hospitalizations and mortality among residents. While the correlation does not necessarily mean that the norovirus directly causes a greater number of hospitalizations or deaths, the data obtained by the study could…
A nurse’s aide at a Virginia veterans’ nursing home received a five-year prison sentence in September 2012 for a scheme that involved stealing residents’ wedding rings and selling them. She pleaded guilty to receiving and selling stolen property in July. She allegedly had a partner who actually stole the rings,…
A Baltimore nursing home announced that it will shut its doors by the end of September 2012. The nursing home’s parent company, Ravenwood Healthcare, Inc. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. The facility lost its Medicare and Medicaid funding, and Ravenwood has been unsuccessful in locating…
A nursing home in Greenwood, Mississippi could lose all of its funding through the Medicare and Medicaid programs if it fails to correct certain problems alleged by the federal government. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers both programs, recently notified Greenwood’s Golden Age…
Police in New Milford, New Jersey put a local nursing home on “lockdown” after the facility received a letter containing threats and references to the recent shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. As a precautionary measure for the safety of the nursing home’s residents, police kept residents in…
A study involving researchers affiliated with Harvard and other academic institutions, intended to look into prevention of hip fractures, actually may have exposed over 1,300 participants to increased risk of hip injury. The Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ordered…
A former executive with a nursing home company based in Roanoke, Virginina has been sentenced to just over five years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts involving mail fraud and tax evasion. He was accused of receiving more than half a million dollars in kickbacks from contractors, awarding…