Tag Archives: Nursing Home

Will New Regulations Put Residents at Heightened Risk for Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect?

The nursing home industry recently celebrated a triumph in a long term battle to scale -->

Visiting Your Loved One in a Nursing Home

Placing your loved one in a nursing home facility can be an emotionally challenging experience -->

Choosing the Best Nursing Home in Buffalo, NY

When choosing the appropriate nursing home environment in Buffalo, there are several factors to consider. -->

Albany Nursing Home Risk Factors

Placing someone we love in a nursing home facility can be a difficult and painful -->

How to Choose the Right Nursing Home?

Placing a loved one in a nursing home facility is never easy. When a decision -->

Family Member of Neglected Nursing Home Resident Shares Their Experience

Nursing home residents fall victim to abuse or neglect far too often. As personal injury -->

New Technology May Reduce Occurrence of Bedsores

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, each year more than 2.5 million -->

Forced Arbitration and Nursing Home Abuse: An Update

Very recently the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare proposed a rule banning forced arbitration in -->

Is Your Elderly Loved One’s Nursing Home on This List?

In New York State there is a list, known as the “Do Not Refer” list -->

Negligence of Nursing Home Staff Likely Contributed to Resident Death

On Friday, September 2nd a fight broke out at a Buffalo Nursing home between two -->

Identifying Nursing Home Abuse and Nursing Home Neglect

If you have a loved one in a Nursing Home you should consider familiarizing yourself -->

Medicare cracks down on Standards for Nursing Home Care.

Last week saw the star rating of almost a third of the nation’s nursing home -->

Steps to Avoiding a Slip and Fall

Preventing a fall that can result in serious injuries and even death is not only -->

The Number of Older Americans Who Fall and Suffer Serious Injuries is Soaring

As Americans age and people live longer with bad health conditions, the number of older -->

Do You Have an Elderly Loved One in a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility? Are You Aware of the 4 Stages of Bed Sores?

Bed sores are pressure sores that cause an injury to the skin and underlying tissue. -->

Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Compliance Trails Federal Requirements

The Department of Health and Human Services Officer of Inspector General (OIG) released a report -->

Grandfather Abused by Nursing Home Worker

A sad story comes to us from Maine about a woman whose grandfather was sexually abused -->

The Drawbacks to Privately Run Long-Term Care

A healthcare adjustment is underway in many states: a strong effort to slow down the -->

Head Injuries Common in Nursing Home Falls

A new study shows that 1 out of 3 nursing home patients hit their head -->

New York’s Nursing Homes Earn Failing Grade

When it comes to the quality of care to its residents, nursing homes earn a -->

Nursing Home: Epidemic of Poor Dental Hygiene

The daughter of a World War II veteran, Katherine Ford, visited her father regularly at -->