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Same Sex Couples Guaranteed Nursing Home Visitation and Access Rights
A memo released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) make it very clear that nursing homes and long-term care facilities that receive funding from CMS cannot discriminate against same sex couples. Facilities are instructed to provide … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, LGBT, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect, same sex couples
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Is South Dakota Nursing Home Overcrowding A Warning For The Nation?
Many years ago, the government of South Dakota created a moratorium that limited the number of nursing home beds for 86 cities and towns across the state. Now the population of the state is aging rapidly, and nursing homes across … Continue reading
Government Program Seeks To Reduce The Number of Disabled in Nursing Homes
Anyone who has visited a nursing home recently knows that, sadly, nursing homes aren’t just for the elderly anymore. Over the past years, nursing homes have become the dumping ground for people with all kinds of disabilities. The people haven’t … Continue reading
Avoid A Nursing Home With A Chicago Aging-In-Place Specialist
It’s no secret or surprise that elderly people fear and loath the idea of living in a nursing home or an assisted living facility. As a Chicago nursing home lawyer, I’ve been in more nursing homes then I can remember while meeting with family … Continue reading
$62,000 Doesn’t Go As Far As It Used To
For the past 10 years, Genworth Financial has been compiling an annual cost-of-care survey that analyzes the changes in the cost of long term care. This year, like most, shows the cost of care increasing significantly across the United States, … Continue reading
Oklahoma Nursing Home Fined $1.3 Million For Nursing Home Neglect
An Oklahoma nursing home was fined an astounding $1.3 million after Oklahoma Department of Health Inspectors visited Kenwood Manor nursing home, a 45-bed facility located in a town called Enid, Oklahoma. The $1.3 million fine is only part of the penalties being levied … Continue reading
HSS: Over 1/3 of Nursing Home Stays Include Nursing Home Neglect
Every family member with a loved one in a nursing home will ask themselves, at some point, “what are the odds of neglect?” We finally have an answer, and it’s worse than most people ever could have imagined. The answer: … Continue reading
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Tagged Health and Human Services, HSS report, Medicare, Nursing Home Neglect
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Paging Dr. Robot! FDA Approves Robot For Hospitals, Nursing Homes
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a robot for use in American hospitals and other health care facilities. The robot, designated RP-VITA, is designed to assist doctors provide care to patients remotely. RP-VITA stands for Remote Presence Virtual +Independent … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Food and Drug Administration, Illinois, Nursing, Nursing Home, Paro, Skype, United States
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Mandated Insurance Bills Fail In Illinois and Virginia
The stunned reaction of Virginia state Senator Bill Stanley given to the Star Tribune is charmingly quaint. “I was astounded,” he said “to discover that the institutions in which we place our most vulnerable citizens, our aging, frail seniors, are … Continue reading
Study Shows Exercise May Reduce Risk of Vascular Dementia
The results of a recent study should have a major impact on the standard of care for nursing home residents in Illinois and across the country. Exercise, approximately three sessions of thirty minutes each, resulted in a significant reduction in … Continue reading
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