Federal authorities on Feb. 27 arrested a nurse's aide in connection to the death of a dementia patient who escaped from a Canton, Ohio-based nursing home in 2018, reports The Canton Repository.
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Brockway, Pa.-based Guardian Elder Care Holdings has agreed to pay over $15 million to settle allegations that it provided unnecessary rehabilitation to residents for its own financial gain, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
IntelyCare, the creator of data-driven workforce management software for post-acute care providers, announced on Feb. 20 the close of a $45 million funding round that was joined by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's investment arm.
A family from New Jersey is suing Bayada Home Health Care and one of its nurses after a woman with cerebral palsy was severely burned in her care, according to ABC 6.
A New Jersey woman filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Twin Cedars Senior Living Feb. 10, alleging that the facility improperly discharged her 81-year-old husband home in a three-hour Uber ride, which ultimately led to his death last…
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A former resident of Pittsburgh-based Corner View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was cremated without his family's knowledge or consent after the facility allegedly failed to notify next of kin of his death, according to NBC affiliate WPXI.
Copper surfaces can help reduce healthcare-associated infections transmitted via the hand in nursing homes, according to a study published in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Michigan nursing home union workers asked for a higher minimum wage and improved benefits and working conditions at a Feb. 8 rally, The Detroit News reports.
A Buffalo, N.Y.-based nursing home was fined $20,580 after a cognitively impaired patient went missing for nearly two hours, The Buffalo News reports.
Five former Skyline Healthcare employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the failed nursing home operators, claiming the company fraudulently took funds from employees' paychecks, according to Keloland News.