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I reported several days ago about a family who decided to send their aging parents to India to receive better nursing home care at lower cost. Well, it appears some Americans are just driving across our southern border to Mexico for the same reason. USA Today reports that more and more elderly Americans are moving…

The state Department of Health suspended admissions at a Hartsville, Tenn., nursing home for numerous violations found during an investigation and annual inspection. Sun Valley Home for the Aged, a 15-bed facility, can no longer admit new patients until the conditions are corrected, according to a release from the Tennessee Health Commissioner, Susan R. Cooper.…

We wrote a short blog yesterday about a nursing aide pleading guilty to criminal neglect in a Rochester, New York nursing home, the Jennifer Matthew Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Well… it looks like another former nursing home employee has now pleaded guilty to neglecting a 70-year-old patient with dementia. Sounds like a bad situation to…

Washington Post Staff writer, Shankar Vedantam wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post “Long before word recently broke that white referees in the National Basketball Association were calling fouls at a higher rate on black athletes than on white athletes, and long before studies found racial disparities in how black and white applicants get called for job…

The use of video cameras or “granny cams” to record poor care in nursing homes is a good thing! An ex-employee of a Rochester, New York nursing home has admitted she neglected a patient in a case that included the use of a hidden camera. Tammy Devos, 43, who worked as a certified nurse’s aide…

This one is going to be interesting! The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died amid flash flooding during Hurricane Katrina are set to stand trial today on negligent homicide charges. The owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home, Salvador and Mabel Mangano, are the only individuals charged with the responsibility of deaths from…

Here is another sad report of a nursing home elopement. Milford Manor Nursing Home, located in Pikesville, Maryland, has been fined $65,000 and barred from training nurse’s aides for two years following the disappearance and death of an 82-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. The resident, Semen Binder, walked away unnoticed on the evening of July 7. Searchers…

The Danville Register and Bee is reporting that a new nursing home has been approved for Chatham, Virginia. The nursing home would house 60 certified beds and would initially bring 55 full-time jobs to the area. Its price tag is approximately $5.8 million. Read the article here. Pittsylvania County is very under-served in terms of…

We have previously written about what to look for when searching for a good nursing home. The type of home which has enough nurses and aides to provide prompt and timely care to the residents. The type of home which provides proper nutrition and hydration to its residents. The type of home which provides needed…

There is a great NPR show, Market Place, where the host always says “Let’s do the numbers.” Well, someone has done the numbers for us in the big business corporate nursing home industry. What if you took the money a CEO would make (or shareholder dividends) and put it toward staffing and resident care. Read…