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Guardianship Sought by Nursing Homes Looking to Collect on Debts
A disturbing trend has come to light in the nursing home industry, and that is facilities seeking guardianship of incapacitated residents in order to secure payments for outstanding debts. The reason is simple: Once guardianship is attained, the home may access the patients bank account to pay themselves without dispute….
Read MoreThe Big Move: How to Transition Your Relative into a Nursing Home
Broaching the subject of moving your aging loved one into a nursing home can be touchy for everyone involved. You want the best care for them and they want to maintain their independence, but you may not have the financial or emotional resources to do that any longer. It is…
Read MoreEmployees at Two Alabama Nursing Homes Charged with Abuse, Theft
Two employees at separate Bessemer, Ala. nursing homes are facing charges for crimes against the elderly residents they were hired to care for: one for abuse and the other for theft. According to Attorney General Luther Strange, 34-year-old Latrice Shuntae Brown, of Birmingham, has been charged with abuse of a…
Read MoreSurvey: Adult Children Spending Retirement Savings on Elderly Parents
A survey conducted by financial services group PNC sheds light on an unsettling trend in eldercare: one-third of Americans who are caregivers for an aging parent will spend at least 10 percent of their retirement savings to manage their care. Published in the fall 2014 Perspectives on Retirement survey, these…
Read MoreMan Charged with Sexually Assaulting Residents at Watertown Nursing Home
Thomas Spiess, 64, was charged with two counts of fourth degree sexual assault, as well as two counts of intentionally subjecting an individual at risk to abuse. He faces up to two years in prison if convicted. Several residents at Golden Living Center in Watertown, WI, told police that they had…
Read MoreIowa Receives “F” in Quality of Care Survey
A recent survey conducted by Families for Better Care, a Florida-based advocacy group, gave the state of Iowa an F grade in a recent report on nursing home quality of care. The report cited five deaths and several injuries in nine nursing homes throughout the state as part of the…
Read MoreAssisted Living Facility Employees Photograph Elderly Residents Naked
Two Brookview Meadows employees are facing criminal charges after taking nude or semi-nude photos of elderly residents and then sharing those photos with others via cellphones. Michelle Bulger and Ashley Schaumburg, both certified nursing assistants, face felony charges after filming one resident bathing and another dealing with a bowel obstruction. Each…
Read MoreIowa Nursing Home Administrator Faces Sanctions
Susan Julifs, former administrator at the Pomeroy Care Center in Pomeroy, Iowa, faces a charge of professional incompetence from the Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators. The board says that Julifs should have known resident William Cubbage posed a threat to other residents and that she failed to protect those…
Read MoreGeorgia Man Defrauds Medicare & Medicaid of $32 Million
An Atlanta nursing home owner and his wife have been convicted on charges to defraud the Medicare and Medicaid programs by billing them for “worthless services” in the operation of three deficient nursing homes. George Dayln Houser, 63, of Atlanta, ran two nursing homes (Mount Berry and Moran Lake) in…
Read MoreVoluntary Nursing Home Improvement Plan Disappoints
CMA Alert Many nursing facilities that are identified by the federal government as among the facilities providing the poorest quality of care to residents in the country – the Special Focus Facilities (SFFs) – participate in the nursing home industry’s voluntary quality improvement campaign, Advancing Excellence in Americas Nursing Homes….
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