Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Bill to Protect Nursing Home Abuse Victims Vetoed

  Randy Walton | October 19, 2007 8:22 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  Only hours before it would become law, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 399, a popular assembly bill that would have required the California Department of Public Health to complete investigations of nursing home neglect and abuse complaints within reasonable time limits and to notify complainants of findings. According to the California Advocates of Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), abuse...

• Elder Abuse: Nursing Home Standards to be Enforced

  Randy Walton | October 15, 2007 9:25 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A new California law took effect on July 1, 2007 requiring the Department of Public Health to determine whether nursing homes are complying with California standards that are stronger than federal law. The new law, SB 1312, was introduced after it was learned that the department was ignoring California nursing home reform laws during inspection and elder abuse complaint investigations.For more...

• Medicare To Stop Paying For The Treatment Of Pressure Ulcers

  Scott Barber | September 17, 2007 5:42 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  Medicare to stop paying nursing homes for treating pressure ulcers which they cause. Pressue ulcers are one of the most common bases for elder aqbuse lawsuits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last month that, it will no longer reimburse hospitals for treating eight "reasonably preventable" conditions as of October 2008. Pressure ulcers are among the most prevalent,...

• Upset about Nursing Home Care? Complain!

  Randy Walton | September 14, 2007 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  As a lawyer who sues nursing homes and residential care facilities for the abuse or neglect of their residents, I frequently get calls from people who feel that they or their loved one have been a victim abuse or neglect. When I hear genuine stories abuse or neglect, or of highly questionable conduct on the part of nursing home staff, I always ask whether or not anyone complained about it to...

• The Cost of Nursing Home Care

  Rick Patterson | August 11, 2007 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Nursing home chain, Manor Care, is the largest nursing home chain in the United States. This year a private equity group purchased the chain. That transaction made Manor Care's CEO Paul Ormond between $118 and $186 million richer. As is the case with all nursing home chains, most of Manor Care's revenues come from public programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Toby S. Edelman of the Center for...

• Bill Would Speed Up California Nursing Home Complaint Investigations

  Laura Blatt | June 18, 2007 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA

  Many California consumer groups are supporting AB 399, a state bill that would require nursing home complaint investigations to be completed within 40 days, and ensure that those who file the complaints receive a written summary of the findings. The proposed legislation would also give the complainant 15 business days, rather than the current 5 business days, in which to request an informal...

• Nursing Home Neglect Results in Death

  Susy Owen | May 13, 2007 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  It is a frightening thought that one day you may end up in a nursing home with care takers that do any but tend to your needs. I am not suggesting that there are not some excellent nursing homes out there. In fact there are many, but then there are the others. The kind that you hope you don't find yourself or a loved one in some day - such was the case in a Pierce County nursing home. It is...

• Nursing Home Fined $100,000 In Man's Death

  IB Contributor | March 07, 2007 10:16 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Owner also convicted of tax fraud. State health officials have fined a San Jose nursing home $100,000 - the highest fine allowed under state law - for substandard care that led to the October death of a 67-year-old man, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury News.The fine was announced the same day that Jack Easterday, the president of Homewood Care Center's parent company, was...

• Nursing Home Fined $90,000

  Christina Cole | January 26, 2007 1:15 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  After the California Department of Health Services concluded an investigation into the death of 89-year-old Eva Anita Morgan, Cottonwood Healthcare has received an "AA" citation and a $90,000 fine, the most severe under state law.Morgan died on March 22, 2005 from sepsis syndrome and she suffered from a urinary tract infection, death records show."When nursing home neglect occurs and the elderly...

• Lewis County Nursing Facility Cited

  Rick Patterson | January 02, 2007 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services imposed fines on a Lewis County Nursing Facility as a result of resident-on-resident sexual abuse and deficiencies in the quality of care, nutrition and errors in medication. Initially the fine was $4,050 per day starting on November 17, 2006. However, since November 20, 2006 the fine has been $150 daily. A 38-page report was obtained by NewsWatch50. ...