With the demand for long term care facilities increasing each year, there are numerous companies going into the nursing home business. The vast majority of employees at these facilities are dedicated and caring individuals. But, unfortunately, many are overworked and under-trained. This leads to inadequate or substandard care for some of the residents of these […]
Each year, countless numbers of elderly nursing home patients suffer from abuse at the hands of the professionals who should be taking care of them. Unfortunately, too many of these cases go unreported because of the lack of substantial evidence to back up the claims. However, according to an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch […]
As the U.S. population ages and St. Louis nursing home admissions increase, many St. Louis families will be faced with evaluating the quality of care nursing homes are providing their loved ones. In our previous post, we noted an Arkansas case of nursing home neglect in which a woman died and the jury awarded her […]
In a recent nursing home neglect case in which a 76-year-old woman died, an Arkansas jury returned a unanimous verdict against the nursing home and awarded the victim’s family $5.2 million. The woman died when nursing center staff failed to follow a doctor’s order to have the woman transported to a hospital emergency room to […]
The Staphylococcus aureas bacteria that can cause the very serious infection known as MRSA has been found by a recent research study to be prevalent in nursing homes. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of California Irvine, found that twenty of the twenty two homes evaluated had the bacteria present. This bacterium is […]
A recent study published in the December Issue of Medical Care, a journal published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, found that many news stories paint a negative picture of nursing homes. The researchers found that about 49% of nursing home news stories are negative with only about 10% being positive. According to the report the […]
The New York Times published an article recently that described a serious problem that has not been handled very well by the authorities – injuries and deaths that have been caused by bedrails. These incidents are an all too common occurrence in homes, hospitals and nursing homes. According to the article the bedrails are a […]
The Woodland View Care and Rehabilitation Center in Tulsa Oklahoma has had to relocate all of its residents and close as a result of an ongoing battle with both Federal and State regulators. The closing of this facility is part of an agreement that the parent company, Sun Healthcare Group, agreed to with federal regulators. […]
The owner of The Blessed Hands Home Health Services, Inc. has pled guilty to a felony charge of fraud in a scheme where she bilked money from Medicaid by filing false claims. The story in the St. Louis Dispatch notes that she admitted to the charge in court and that some of the people she […]
On August 27 the New York Times published a report citing information supplied by the Journal of Applied Gerontology focusing on hand hygiene in nursing homes. It seems that since 2002 the proper cleansing of hands after handling patients and equipment has gone down. The survey showed that hand hygiene deficiency citations had increased in […]
