Nursing Home Bill Could End Bonuses For Poorly Performing Facilities
The Des Moines Register reported on a new bill proposed by Senator Tom Coburn (R- Oklahoma) that would end the practice of paying poorly performing nursing homes a bonus. Under the current system, nursing homes across the country are paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses by taxpayers regardless of their record of health and safety violations at their facilities. The Register looked at eight programs in seven states where regulatory violations don't disqualify a nursing home from receiving a bonus and determined the eight programs alone cost taxpayers $312 million per year. "We paid out in excess of...
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Does Pulling Medicare Funding From Underperforming Nursing Homes Help Residents?
Its a fine line between ordering an under performing nursing home to close its doors versus giving the facility an opportunity to improve. Many of the 'under-performing' facilities are responsible for caring for some of the most challenging residents--those that other facilities are incapable or simply refuse to care for. In the end, resident safety needs to preempt all other factors when making a determination as to a facilities future. Case in point, Whispering Pines Nursing Nursing Center-- which has lost its Medicare and Medicaid funding-- effectively forcing the facility to close its doors. The decision to pull federal funding...
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Four Central Illinois Nursing Homes Cited For Negligent Care
On the heels of the recent Department of Health and Human Services report which demonstrated safety problems at virtually every nursing every nursing home across the country, recent article reports that Central Illinois is no different. In 2008, four nursing homes in Peoria County, Illinois, were cited for negligent treatment of their residents. The Illinois Department of Public Health has cited Bel-Wood Nursing Home, Sharon Health Care Willows, Manor Court of Peoria and Rosewood Care Center for negligent patient care. Below is a summary of the incidents from the above Peoria County, Illinois nursing homes: Bel-Wood Nursing Home: received citation for not reporting...
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Nursing Home Workers Protest Over Safety Concerns
Nursing home workers at Windsor Healthcare nursing homes are holding a demonstration today to protest resident safety. The nursing home employees hope current resident safety issues will be corrected. Federal surveys document over 360 health and safety violations at the Windsor Healthcare nursing homes. Many of the violations stem from high staff turn-over and poor employee training. While the facilities were accumulating safety violations, the facility owners were collecting substantial profits. In 2006, Windsor owners profited over $2 million from just two of the eight facilities they own. Many nursing home employees are substantially under-paid. Many fast-food workers earn more...
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Lets Award The Under-Acheiving
Three out of seven nursing home featured in the 2008 Iowa Governor's Quality Care In Heath Care Industry have numerous violations from federal and state authorities. The three facilities have been cited for problems in meeting minimum health and safety requirements and have been cited by state inspectors for medication errors, failure to follow physicians' orders, unsanitary conditions, or failure to treat serious problems, such as broken bones. Some of the 'award winning facilities' also had violations for failing to provide the prescribed amount of food to residents; unsanitary food service; failure to lock a medication cabinet in the unit...
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