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 [...]

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 [...]