New Program Focuses On Staffing To Improve Patient Care In Nursing Homes
I recently read about The Critical Access Nursing Home Project, a program initiated to help ‘at risk’ nursing homes in urban areas in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Georgia improve the quality of their care. Though participation in the program is voluntary facilities must meet criteria applicable to the composition patient demographics such as: operating in an urban area, a large percentage of minority patients on Medicaide and a large percentage of patients with serious health problems. The primary focus of the program is to focus on staffing retention and morale to improve patient care. All nursing homes are understaffed. We’re...
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Medicaid Fraud Costs Nursing Home More Than $375k
American Senior Communities has agreed to pay $376,432 under the terms of a settlement reached with Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller after it was discovered the company was engaging in Medicaid fraud. The alleged fraud involved American Senior Communities submitting claims to Medicaid (a state program) on behalf of seven employees who were ineligible to participate in the Medicaid program due to their criminal histories. Federal law prohibits any health care providers from participating in the Medicaid or Medicare programs. In addition to the significant fine, the company has also agreed to implement procedures to prevent these errors from occurring...
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Resident Who Smoked & Used Oxygen Suspected Of Causing Fire At Assisted Living Facility
A woman was killed in a fire at the Lebanon Manner Village assisted living complex in Indiana when a fire broke out in her apartment. The other buildings in the complex were evacuated. It took firefighters more than an hour to put out the flames according to Lebanon firefighter Wheat. Thirteen apartments were damaged by flames and almost the entire building sustained some kind of damage, Wheat said. Most of the residents at the assisted living facility will remain out of their apartments due to smoke and water damage. Officials did not release a cause of the fire, but friends said the victim smoked and was on oxygen....
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