Post-Acute

State and city health officials are investigating three cases of Legionnaires' disease at two Chicago nursing homes.

A New York nursing home was cited but not fined by the state health department after maggots were found in the wound of an 89-year-old patient, according to The Buffalo News. 

The family of an 84-year-old man who died after staying at Bridgeton, N.J.-based Cumberland Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center filed a lawsuit Dec. 30 accusing the nursing home of negligence, according to NBC News.  

Six Connecticut nursing homes have been cited by the Department of Public Health for violating regulations, with fines totaling $30,481, according to Connecticut Health Investigative Team.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is about to sell a group of nursing homes it took over 18 months ago after the previous owners defaulted on $146 million in government-guaranteed mortgages, The New York Times reports.

CMS-sponsored website Nursing Home Compare, which reports quality data from U.S. nursing homes, may be using inaccurate data to report patient safety related to falls, according to a study published in Health Services Research.

A 95-year-old patient is dead after being attacked in his room at Port St. Lucie, Fla.-based Tiffany Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, USA Network affiliate TCPalm reports. 

Two Ohio Democratic legislators have proposed a bill that would let families put cameras in nursing home rooms to help end abuse, CBS affiliate Cleveland 19 reports.

For the first time since the early 20th century, more people are dying in their homes than in hospitals, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Maine's governor passed a bill to increase Medicaid payments to nursing homes, announced in a letter to the Legislature's budget-writing Appropriations Committee Dec. 9, according to the Portland Press Herald.