40 Violations In A Year, Yet Nursing Home Disputes Safety Concerns & Fights To Remain Open
A legal battle is heating up in Oklahoma that will likely impact the way the government handles funding penalties in the future with nursing homes across the country. The heart of the battle involves a small Tulsa nursing home with extensive patient-safety violations over the past year. The violations were deemed so severe that officials took that rather drastic step of terminating Medicare and Medicaid payments to the facility. Rather than disputing the alleged violations themselves, the nursing home asserts that the government acted improperly in applying care standards during its inspections. As a result of the improper standards, the...
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Children In Nursing Homes: Truly The Most Vulnerable
Many families are forced to institutionalize their disabled children in nursing homes because of many states don’t have the resources to pay for in-home care. This puts parents in the difficult position of funding expensive home care on their own or having their child live in a nursing home, surrounded by elderly adults, and many families simply cannot afford the cost of in-home care workers and nurses. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that about 4,000 children live in nursing homes in the U.S. and that number is steadily growing as health care resources are increasingly spread thin....
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Where Will Nursing Home Residents Go When Medicare Closes Dangerous Facilities?
I was reviewing the AARPBulletintoday, and they ran a story about Kentucky nursing home that was cited for reports of alleged nursing home abuse and neglect by nursing state nursing home inspectors. Winchester Centre for Health and Rehabilitation received a Type A citation- the most serious nursing home citation a state can give-- for problems related to 'medical errors' and consequently the federal government will terminate its Medicare / Medicaid funding. According to Kathy Gannoe, executive director of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass, prior to issuance of the Type A citation, the Winchester received 31 resident complaints...
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Bad News For Illinois Nursing Home Residents
A study by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) has determined that Medicaid is underfunding state long-term care by a whopping $4.2 billion in 2008. Obviously, the funding shortfall will necessitate budget cuts that impact Medicaid funding for nursing homes. According to the AHCA report, New York will be the hardest hit with a projected shortfall of $548.1 million, followed by Illinois with a $379.3 shortfall with Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey filling out the top five. Nursing homes are already feeling the financial impact of the of federal funding problems. According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, the combined...
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