Medicare Pulls Funding From Troubled Nursing Home Due To Concerns Over Resident Safety
Residents of the River Park Nursing Home in Nashville, Tennessee will be forced to find a new place to live within the next 30 days. Medicare has pulled its funding for the facility following state inspections that revealed safety violations that threatened the health of the residents. Although the facility could continue to operate with private funding, the fact that most of its current residents rely on Medicare / Medicaid support will effectively force the facility to close its doors. Many of the safety violations relate to deficiencies surrounding the behavior of residents according to Joe Garafola, the facilities administrator....
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Maryland Nursing Home Fined For Neglecting Patients
Rarely do nursing homes have isolated problems. Rather, problems with patient care usually stem from a culture of poor staff training and under-staffing. Case in point-- The Summerville at Potomac nursing facility in Maryland. Following a routine inspection, state and county nursing home surveyors discovered numerous violations governing patient care in nursing homes. Among the violations, the surveyors discovered: improperly care for pressure ulcers, mismanaged patients' medication, lack of fall precautions for patients prone to falling and patients with excessive weight gain and loss. According to Wendy Kronmiller, director of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Office...
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