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How a Long Island Nursing Home Empire Got Its Way « Michael Amon

How a Long Island Nursing Home Empire Got Its Way « Michael Amon.

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For the first time the proposed Executive Budget suggests a major change in how nursing homes are reimbursed for the care they give. The Governor and the Department of Health are proposing to focus more on quality outcomes. This is something LTCCC has been advocating for years. This is an initiative we must encourage.

The new proposal allocates $50 million in budget year 2009-2010 and $125 million in budget year 2010-2011 to reward facilities both performing well (in year one) and for those who perform well and improve (year two). Facilities with immediate jeopardy or substandard quality of care violations are eliminated from consideration.

Appellate court halts prosecution of nurses, attorney

Appellate court halts prosecution of nurses, attorney

Evicting The Elderly

Moving a parent or sibling into a nursing home is emotionally and financially difficult. Keeping them there may be getting even harder. The Wall Street Journal reports that increasing numbers of frail and sick residents are being forced out of nursing homes across the country. In some cases, they're asked to leave because they are difficult or expensive to care for. It violates federal law for a nursing home to evict residents for those reasons.

Death of spouse ups odds of nursing home care

An older person's likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates.

Staffing Ratios At Nursing Homes Must Be Mandated

In 2003, two nursing home residents were admitted to a nursing home in New York with pressure sores.  Both residents were given care plans that included regular skin assessment, turning and positioning. 

Within months, the residents developed multiple pressure sores and one resident developed renal failure partly caused by skin breakdown.  The state inspector attributed the failure to administer care plans to a “systems breakdown” caused by staffing issues including lack of communication, high turnover and use of agency staffing.

Nursing Home Indicted in Elderly Woman's Death

Only One Nursing Home in Baghdad

There is only one   nursing home in Baghdad, a city of 5 million   people. The Shamayea Nursing Home, opened in the 1930s, accepts all Iraqis based on what many residents say, it is their home of last resort. The nursing home cares for people without families or whose families have abandoned them.

Escape From the Nursing Home

By IRA ROSOFSKY, New York Times Opinion               

LUCKY you. You just won the lottery, and you’re getting a payout of $75,000 a year! Just in time. You’re frail, and at age 65 you wonder how far your measly Social Security check will go. MORE

 

In fight over nursing home bed, lessons for both sides

By Saul Friedman, Newsday

Mary O'Neill, 87, who sleeps most of the time now and who her daughters say doesn't have many days left, is happy, nevertheless. She's back, at last, in the nursing home  bed that had been denied her for months.

Newsday Article