Good article on the challenges facing CNA's in Nursing Homes. The writer mentions the "G" (Greed) word as a factor in the compromise of elder care in nurssing facilities. Some excerpts: "When a resident is a two assist meaning that there needs to be two people to care for them by state law and only three CNA's on a shift all the residents suffer. Lights are ignorned residents fall, and some are left in their own feces or with there pants down because a CNA can't get back to them to help. As someone looking in on this it is sad that in some of these...
Monday, January 30, 2012
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Joseph Shepter died in January 2007 at age 76. On Shepter's death certificate, the nursing home's chief medical officer, explained that the cause was heart failure brought on by clogged arteries. Shepter's family had no reason to doubt it. The local coroner never looked into the death. Shepter's body was interred in a local cemetery. A tip from a nursing-home staffer would later prompt state officials to re-examine the case and reach a very different conclusion. When investigators reviewed Shepter's medical records, they determined that he had...
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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Numbers of nursing home patients dying with bedsores and infected wounds soaring Seventy five patients are dying in hospitals and care homes every day while suffering from conditions caused by neglect, new figures show.In 2010, more than 27,000 people died with bedsores or infected wounds - a rise of more than 50 per cent in a decade.Bedsores are caused when patients are not turned regularly, or are left in poor hygiene. They may become infected if not spotted and treated quickly. Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the English Patients Association...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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A state citation against a central Kentucky nursing home is being reviewed by the Kentucky Attorney General's office. The citation stems from how staff at Charleston Health Care Center in Danville responded to allegations that a male nurse's aide was mistreating patients, according to the Lexington Herald Leader, which obtained the citation through an open records request (http://bit.ly/sNFSlB).It says abuse allegations weren't immediately reported to administrative staff, weren't thoroughly investigated and weren't reported to all the appropriate...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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During the past six years, Minnesota has granted more than 15,000 waivers to people with criminal records seeking employment in nursing homes and other state-regulated care programs, state records show.Under state law, people are automatically rejected for those jobs if background checks reveal they have committed any crime on a list of disqualifying offenses. But through a little-publicized appeals process allowed under the law, former criminals who request a second chance usually get their wish.The most forgiving state agency among the two that...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Final rule gives providers and beneficiaries access to quality data - McKnight's Long Term Care News
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A final rule issued Monday will allow Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries access to information about costs and quality of care information about various providers including nursing homes, regulators say.As required by the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule designed to help beneficiaries make more informed decisions in June. The final rule, effective Jan. 6, 2012, gives qualified organizations and beneficiaries access to reports about providers, such as nursing homes, hospitals and physicians....
Saturday, January 14, 2012
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Michigan issues thousands of violations against nursing homes each year, but the number of documented cases of outright abuse is much smaller, though exact numbers are hard to come by.Four of five Michigan nursing homes in a three-year period were cited for some form of nursing home mistreatment. But that label covers everything from an aide striking a resident to more passive lapses, such as failing to conduct a background check on an employee or an aide's failure to report an unexplained injury.For example, Tendercare in Kalamazoo County was...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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This study reveals findinfs that are NO surprise to anyone familiar with American Nursing homes: The prevalence of depression is common among low-wage nursing home workers — who also experience higher levels of stress than other workers — a new Harvard study finds. In one case I handled against Kindred Healthcare, the CNA accused of abusing 4 Elders with Alzheimers had worked an incredible 105 hours in one week.“The high burden of work-family stress and depression in this group has important public health implications for the nursing home workers...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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I read yesterday that a former certified nursing assistant was sentenced to up to eight years in prison for raping a 69-year-old woman with dementia. Jerald Sullivan was also ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty Wednesday in Berkshire Superior Court. Prosecutors say Sullivan sexually assaulted the elder woman in January 2011 while working at the Hillcrest Commons nursing facility in Pittsfield. The judge called the elder crime "reprehensible." I don't know the facts of this case but from the article ot looks like the...
Friday, January 6, 2012
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Forty-three states have received federal funding to help transfer Medicaid beneficiaries from nursing homes to their communities, a new analysis finds.The Money Follows the Person demonstration program, which was started five years ago and was expanded under the Affordable Care Act, had successfully transferred a total of 17,000 nursing home residents back into their communities as of Aug. 11, 2011, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.More Medicaid beneficiaries are undergoing nursing...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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According to an article in hivehealthmedia.com,there are 3.8 million nursing home residents over the age of 65 , and the senior citizen population will increase to over 72 million by 2030.This means nursing homes will see over 5 million patients in 2020 and 6.6 million in 2030. With medical advances it is likely that nursing home populations will be bigger.http://www.hivehealthmedia.com/nursing-home-abuse-grow-futu...
Monday, January 2, 2012
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When Edwin Murphy was 91 he was transferred to a local nursing home for rehab and he developed pressure ulcers on both hips. He wanted to go home . Unlike some nursing home residents, he still had a home.He didn't feel he could enjoy life being "institutionalized.” Moving disabled people out of nursing homes back into the community has become a focus for Medicaid, which now is shifting its priorities to spending more long-term care dollars on community services and less on institutions such as nursing homes.To that end, every person admitted to...
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