Terms To Better Understand Your Nursing Home
For families seeking information on a particular nursing home or additional information about a specific event, the need for such information usually comes at a time when external pressures abound. In order to fully appreciate such information, it is important to have a complete grasp of the terms involved. I was happy to find concise definitions of many nursing home terms that pop up both in the nursing home selection process and beyond recently published by the Detriot Free Press. I frequently receive inquiries from blog readers about such terms, so I decided it would be worthwhile to include them...
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Lockdown: New Admissions Suspended At Tennessee Nursing Home
Tennessee Department of Heath officials have suspended new resident admissions at the Pigeon Forge Care and Rehabilitation Center. The suspension of new admissions follows the identification of problems related to the facilities administration, performance and resident rights observed during an inspection of the nursing home between April 20 and May 11. In addition to the suspension on new admissions, Tennessee officials imposed a $3,000 fine and recommended a daily fine of $4,550 until the conditions are corrected. A monitor has been assigned to the facility to keep track of the nursing home's progress. In addition, a copy of the order...
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Improper Record Keeping Leads To Suspension Of New Admissions In Nursing Home
Tennessee officials have suspended new the admission of new residents at the Quality Care Health Center in Lebanon, TN. The suspension comes after state and federal investigators found multiple safety violations during an investigation related to a complaint filed against the nursing home. Investigators from the Federal Center for Medicare-Medicaid Services found violations in physician services, nursing services and with medical records. Investigators discovered residents at the Tennessee nursing home were put in 'immediate jeopardy' because nurses did not keep proper charts. Additionally, nursing home inspectors also documented instances of dramatic weight loss among residents. Quality Care Health Center was...
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Checking On Your Nursing Home: Step By Step How To
<img src="http://www.blawg.com/claimscript.aspx?userid=goose575&LinksID=8012"> Why reinvent the wheel? Trying to find more information about your nursing home? This is an excellent 'how to' by Professor Hanns Peiper from the University of Evansville. Below is an except from Professor Peiper's article in the Evansville Courrier & Press. Following is a set of steps that will get you helpful information. Step 1: Go to the Medicare home page by typing the address http://www.medicare.gov into the line at the top of your screen. When the Medicare home page comes up on your computer, scroll to the bottom half of your screen where you will find...
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Spotlight On Medicare Funding For Nursing Homes
Fact is most nursing homes and other long-term care facilities rely in small or large part on funding from Medicare. Most elderly do not have the assets to live in swank nursing homes that have maid service and four star chefs. Part of the nursing homes responsibility in accepting Medicare and Medicaid funding is that it must meet certain criteria and standards. This article highlights how the Santa Rosa Care Center, in Tuscon, Arizona recently lost its Medicare funding due to its failure to protect residents from sexual abuse. The article further reported that inspectors found residents at the facility...
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