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Many nursing homes will want you to sign an admission agreement, either before or after the resident moves in. Please take your time and read the agreement fully before signing. If possible, consult with an attorney. Obviously, if you can wait until the resident has already moved in, you will have more leverage. Here is…

According to an article by the Jackson Sun, The Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions to Bells Nursing Home and imposed a monetary penalty of $1,500. The state has also recommended that the nursing home be charged a federal penalty of $3,050 per day until the violations are corrected. The violations include: o…

I just finished reading an article in Virginia Business magazine about the ever increasing costs for nursing home care. The article’s title, “Retirement Dream Could Become a Nightmare” says it all! The article reports the average daily rate for a private room in a Virginia nursing home is $133 while the maximum average daily rate…

The Washington Post newspaper reported yesterday that the Carlyle Group will purchase Manor Care, a nursing-home operator, for $6.3 billion, the latest in a recent string of multibillion-dollar deals involving the DC private-equity giant. Manor Care, which traces its roots to a single nursing home in Wheaton 48 years ago, has grown into one of…

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) is the nation’s largest provider of nurses professional liability insurance coverage, with over 650,000 nursing professionals insured in the program today. Take a look at this collection of paid claims involving nursing negligence or malpractice and reported by NSO.

According to the LA Times, Joey Crumes, a 45 year old Californian, was awarded $11.7 million dollars in a lawsuit against ER physician, Andrew Lawson and radiologist Charles Aucreman. Crumes went to the emergency room at Mission Hospital complaining of a severe headache. Crumes told the doctors that several years before he had been operated…

We have written about it before, the difference between for-profit and non-profit health care. If your nursing home is “for profit” you have a legal duty towards your shareholders, to maximize profits. But what does that duty, do for your residents and staff? Many for-profit nursing homes will tell us in depositions and discovery in…

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare filed a complaint Thursday against the Holland-Glen Nursing Facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges the facility has been operating without a nursing facility license and its services “substantially depart from generally accepted professional standards of care, thereby exposing patients to significant risk and,…

Our congratulations go west today – to attorney Carl Bettinger, who called his jury “heroes” “and said he was honored to have represented Barber’s daughter, Lori Keith, in taking on “one of the largest corporations in the country … so she could show the public what happened to her mother and in so doing save…