Masonic Homes of Kentucky paid a patient's family $11 million in June 2019 to settle claims that one of their facilities had failed to give the patient life-saving antibiotics and then failed to report the oversight to authorities, possibly contributing…
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CMS fined a Buffalo, N.Y.-based nursing home $47,827 after staff members improperly administered insulin to a patient, reports The Buffalo News.
Nearly 400 nursing homes nationwide have a "persistent record of poor care" previously undisclosed to the public, according to a Senate report released June 3.
Medicare patients who seek surgical care in hospital outpatient departments are more likely to have severe chronic conditions and be poorer than beneficiaries treated in ambulatory surgical centers, according to a study from the American Hospital Association.
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is expanding its home healthcare options to offer primary care, palliative care and other hospital services, the health system announced March 11.
Hundreds of nursing homes in rural America have closed in the last decade, forcing some residents to relocate to facilities farther away from their families and homes, reports The New York Times.