Currently, New Jersey does not have legislation that mandates the number of nursing aides that nursing homes should hire. Rather, these facilities are allowed to use their discretion on how many, or how little, aides they hire for their residents. Unfortunately, this leads to many nursing homes trying to cut corners and save money by …
New Guidelines Cause Nursing Home Quality Score Drop
The new guidelines for Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare website could impact the quality scores of more than 15,000 American nursing homes. It was just confirmed that about a third of these nursing homes are getting lower scores because of the strengthened guidelines. Nursing Home Compare is a widely-used website run by the government, which scores …
Nursing Home Investigated for Series of Violations
Nursing home negligence lawyers at Pintas & Mullins report that the Champaign County Nursing home in southern Illinois was recently subject to several investigations by the state’s Department of Public Health. Recent surveys have found an array of violations, particularly in kitchen and nutrition management. Nursing homes that accept Medicare and Medicaid, which most of …
Qualifications for Nursing Home Staff
Nursing homes have a responsibility to provide stable, appropriate care for their residents. Because they are in charge of the well-being of the elderly, nursing home staff need certain qualifications with which to provide this care. The facility’s administration should carefully review all potential employees when hiring staff members. When they fail to check credentials, …
Government Agrees to Tougher Nursing Home Evaluations
We recently reported on the broken system the government created to rate and compare nursing homes. After massive outcry from the public and industry insiders, the federal government is now taking immediate action to strengthen the Nursing Home Compare website so many families rely on to find quality nursing homes. Nursing Home Compare is the …
Understanding Nursing Home Contracts
We recently wrote a post exposing how nursing home contracts manipulate residents with their hidden legal language, and the serious harm these contracts cause. We detailed the truth about forced arbitration clauses and the nationwide fight to remove them from contracts of all types, and particularly nursing home admittance contracts. Resident’s Murder Unrecognized by Her Nursing Home In …