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 [...]

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 [...]