Largest Nursing Home Chains Provide Inferior Care & Have More Problems Related To Patient Care
Compared to non-profit and government controlled peers, big-chain nursing homes simply provide inferior patient care. Period. In one of the first studies directly comparing patient care provided by non-profits operations vs. nursing home conglomerates (the ten largest for-profit chains), an analysis conducted by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) clearly demonstrated that the facility have significantly more deficiencies that can be responsible for patients unmet medical needs and the development of serious complications such as: falls, infections, drastic weight loss and pressure sores. According to one of the studies author's Charlene Harrington, RD, PhD, there is no ambiguity in the...
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Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Golden Living Failed To Provide Adequate Staffing For Patients
A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of many past and current patients of Golden Living Centers in California alleging that the facilities' failed to provide minimum nursing care for patients over the past five years. Despite California state standards that require nursing homes to provide no less than 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, the facilities allegedly chose to ignore the legal requirements and elected to staff the facilities as elected. As a result of Golden Living's failure to provide state mandated nursing care, the lawsuit alleges that patients suffered neglect and injury. In...
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Team Approach Necessary To Treat Urinary Incontinence In Nursing Home Patients
By some accounts, more than 66% of nursing home patients are currently being treated for a complete or partial loss of bladder control. Unknown to many, patients with a loss of bladder control suffer serious physical and psychological consequences. Emotionally, patients may withdraw due to embarrassment of having an accident in public. Physically, nursing home patients suffering form incontinence tend to suffer higher rates of medical complications than their peers due to the fact that they may suffer from more rapid de-conditioning, dehydration (because they are scared to increase their fluid intake), higher rates of falls (rushing to get to...
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Golden Living Partners With Microsoft To Help Manage Patient Medical Records
Have you ever tried to read a nursing home patient's chart? Were you able to read everything? If so, please shoot me an email, because I surely have a difficult time sorting through many entries in charts. A new collaboration between Golden Living and Microsoft may help to improve not just the legibility of medical records, but also aid in transmission of individuals medical records from one provider to another. The system known as Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) stores each patients medical records on-line to allow ease of access by both the patient and subsequent health providers. "The...
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Golden Living Sells All Its Arkansas Nursing Homes
Effective July 1, Golden Living is out of the nursing home business in Arkansas. The 14 nursing homes and independent living facilities have been sold to Capital Senior Care Ventures, a subsidiary of health-care behemoth Capital Funding Group. The sale marks a growing trend in the nursing home business of bringing mega-companies to manage and operate individual nursing homes. Frequently, the parent companies have no experience providing healthcare to seniors. In the case of Capital Senior Care, by the companies own admission, they "acquire and construct skilled nursing facilities in order to lease and ultimately sell them to high-quality...
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