In a ruling that could set a legal precedent for nursing home care, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined that a one-person nursing home board wasn’t ultimately responsible for a patient’s neglect. “Duty…(recognizes) that relations between individuals may impose upon one a legal obligation for the other,” the court said in official documents. “We found… Continue Reading
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Nursing Home Injury Laws: Arkansas
Posted in Litigation, National Nursing Home IssuesNumber of nursing homes in Arkansas : 231 Patients living in Arkansas nursing homes: 17,822 Occupancy rates of Arkansas nursing homes: 72.8% Average number of deficiencies at each Arkansas nursing home: 12.2 Percent of Arkansas nursing homes with serious deficiencies for actual harm to patient: 32.5% Most common deficiencies at Arkansas nursing homes: Accident Environment,… Continue Reading
Golden Living Sells All Its Arkansas Nursing Homes
Posted in Economics, Golden LivingEffective July 1, Golden Living is out of the nursing home business in Arkansas. The 14 nursing homes and independent living facilities have been sold to Capital Senior Care Ventures, a subsidiary of health-care behemoth Capital Funding Group. The sale marks a growing trend in the nursing home business of bringing mega-companies to manage and… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Workers Charged In Connection To Withholding Oxygen To Resident
Posted in NeglectTwo nursing home workers in Arkansas are facing criminal charges, manslaughter and elder neglect, following the 2007 death of a resident. The charges stem from failing to plug an oxygen line into the wall spigot for an oxygen-dependent patient. By the time the workers came back to check-in on the patient her hands were blue… Continue Reading