On Tuesday, the state of Iowa announced the reversal of a prior decision in which the names of people fired from care facilities for abusing elderly and disabled clients would be kept private. The reversal came nine months after the original decision was made.
For years, the names of Iowa caregivers fired for abuse were [...]

An Illinois man is pleading for the improvement of nursing homes. The elderly man, who wanted to be kept anonymous, believes that the nursing home his wife stayed at is to blame for her death. He stated, “There were problems with medications, and an oxygen mask that didn’t fit and a general lack of concern [...]

The release of the Government Accountability Office’s report on nursing home reviews has triggered a series of articles and investigations on the quality of care-facility examinations.
Before the official report release, authorities stated that the GAO found that serious care problems were overlooked or not cited during annual nursing home investigations. As a result, [...]

A brother and sister are suing a Chicago-area nursing home for negligence related to a fire that caused their father’s death.
Igor Shetyn and another man were killed last week when a fire broke out in a third floor closet around 11 p.m. Two other residents were injured. It is unclear how the fire [...]

A settlement has finally been reached in the case of an elderly woman who was scalded nearly to death four years ago.
Theresa Rodriguez, a mentally-handicapped resident at a Redwood City nursing home, was seated in the shower when a malfunction caused 145-degree water to be poured in her lap. She suffered third degree burns [...]

In Connecticut, declining care and rising fraud in nursing homes has citizens concerned. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in formal testimony before Congress in Washington, D.C., called for major federal and state initiatives to protect patients from fraud and financial collapse at nursing homes controlled by large-scale conglomerates nationwide.
His solution? A partnership between federal [...]

Researchers from the Government Accountability Office are releasing a report today on the investigation of care in nursing homes nationwide.  The report’s conclusions have already been published: investigators routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients.
According to preliminary announcements, researchers found widespread “understatement of deficiencies,” including malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of [...]

Next month, 90 residents will be displaced when a nursing home in Colorado closes.
Grand Oaks Care Center is facing foreclosure because of excessive citations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will cut off federal funding effective June 7. “It really is a drastic step,” said Mike Fierberg, a CMS spokesperson. “We felt [...]

MRSA, or meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that causes life-threatening infections. In nursing homes, MRSA can spread easily because residents live in very close proximity and use common utilities. Nursing home patients often have a range of medical conditions that require antibiotic medication, which cause the patient to build a resistance to [...]

A state legislator from Oklahoma partially owns two local nursing homes that are under critical eye. The homes, owned by Republican Doug Cox, have received criticism for mild failings that do not directly harm residents. But the shortcomings reflect a greater, national problem, says investigator Hugh Robert.
Robert says that the flaws in Cox’s home [...]