On a cold February morning back in 2007, Karen Presto wandered away from the Roscoe Manor Adult Home, then stumbled into the woods about a mile way.  She fell repeatedly and walked in circles until she curled up under a pine tree.  Sadly, that is where police found her frozen body two days later.  She [...]

When Edward Monsour’s family left him in the care of the Manor Health Care Center in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005 to recover from a fall, they thought he would rehabilitate, return home and re-establish himself as the family’s patriarch. However, a year later, Edward was still in the nursing home and was in far [...]

By law, doctors are required to report suspected elder abuse in their patients. However, most of them never do, even if they believe that silence may subject the elderly person to continued abuse at the hands of a caregiver. The lack of physician reporting is a huge problem, experts say, because [...]

In mid-June, we wrote about the fight in Congress to invalidate arbitration clauses in admissions contracts and arguments both for and against the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act.
On Wednesday, July, 30th, the House Judiciary Committee approved the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act – which outlaws the signing of an arbitration agreement as a [...]

When health care issues are debated, often missing from the public policy debate is the huge value of informal care giving services and, unfortunately, the toll those services take on the caregivers.  National estimates show that thirty to thirty-eight million family caregivers provide ongoing care for loved ones or family members.  These services provided by [...]

Under law, there are only six reasons in which a nursing home can evict a resident. They are: if the resident is well enough to go home; need care only available elsewhere; endanger the health of others; endanger the safety of others; fail to pay their bills; or if a facility closes its doors. However, [...]

Awhile back, we wrote about the troubled Westside Healthcare Nursing Home in Price Hill, Ohio and its operator Abe Fischer. We brought attention to the raid that took place at the home, in which investigators found numerous health code violations. Fortunately for residents, a change in ownership may be near.
A Cleveland-based nursing home operator [...]