Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pennsylvania Files Consumer Protection Lawsuit Against Nursing Home Company
Nov 9 2016 // A company with 11 skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough staff to provide basic patient care – and faked it when state Department of Health inspectors were around, the state attorney general...
Tennessee-Based Nursing Home Chain Settles Medicare Overbilling Case for $145M
Oct 28 2016 // An eastern Tennessee-based skilled nursing home chain has reached a $145 million settlement that federal officials called the largest ever of its kind. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Monday that Life...
Chinese Insurance Spree Continues as China Oceanwide Bids $2.7 Billion for Genworth
Oct 24 2016 // China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. has agreed to purchase Genworth Financial Inc. in a $2.7 billion cash deal, joining a record buying spree by Chinese companies as they seek to boost growth overseas. Monday’s deal...
South Carolina Nursing Home Accused of Negligence After Resident Drowns in Puddle
Oct 19 2016 // David Outlaw was a survivor, so much so that his brother can’t believe how he died, drowning in a puddle, pinned underneath his wheelchair after being left alone at the height of Hurricane Matthew to smoke outside...
Ex-CEO of Indiana Nursing Home Company Indicted for Fraud, Kickback Scheme
Oct 14 2016 // The former CEO of a company that operates dozens of Indiana nursing homes and three others face federal charges in a kickback scheme worth millions of dollars, according to an indictment released on Oct. 12. Grand jurors...
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Chain to Pay $2M Settlement
Oct 6 2016 // A Pennsylvania chain of nursing homes has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims of failing to provide basic services to their customers. Attorney General Bruce Beemer announced the settlement with Reliant Senior Care...
Oregon Woman Sues Nursing Home that Axed Her After Reporting Neglect
Oct 4 2016 // A former employee of a Portland, Ore. nursing home has filed a lawsuit against the facility for $575,000, alleging she was fired in 2014 for reporting that a patient had been wounded because of neglectful care. The...
New Inflation Requirements for Pennsylvania Long Term Care Partnership Policies to Take Effect
Sep 16 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced a change in guidance allowing greater flexibility in federally required inflation protection for long term care partnership policies. This flexibility means more...
Tennessee’s Vanguard Healthcare Sued Over Conditions at 6 Nursing Homes
Sep 13 2016 // A bankrupt Brentwood, Tenn., company is facing a federal lawsuit over conditions at six Tennessee nursing homes. WPLN-FM reports prosecutors accuse Vanguard Healthcare LLC of earning big profits while providing...
Changing Directions, Oklahoma Eyes Medicaid Expansion
May 17 2016 // Despite bitter resistance in Oklahoma for years to President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, Republican leaders in this conservative state are now confronting something that alarms them even more: a huge $1.3...
Alaska Assisted Living Home Faces $75K Fine for Workplace Death
Apr 29 2016 // State labor officials have fined an Anchorage assisted living home $75,000 for alleged safety and health violations in the death of a caregiver who was killed by a resident of the home. The Alaska Department of Labor and...
McGowan Re-Brands its Senior Care Insurance Program Division
Apr 12 2016 // Fairview Park, OH, April 12, 2016- McGowan is re-branding its Assisted Living & Nursing Home operations as “McGowan Senior Care.” McGowan Senior Care will operate as a division under McGowan Program...
Oregon Woman Files $1M Suit Nursing Home Death of Father
Mar 22 2016 // A woman has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against a Florence, Ore. nursing home that cared for her 83-year-old father, claiming that it didn’t do enough to address health symptoms that led to his death. The...
Georgia Judge Awards $64M to Man Beaten in Assisted Living Home
Mar 18 2016 // A judge in Wilkinson County, Georgia, has awarded $64.6 million to a man who claimed he was beaten by several employees in a personal-care home. Media outlets report that in January, Judge William Prior issued the final...
North Dakota Hospital Sued over Hepatitis C Outbreak
Mar 9 2016 // Victims of the largest hepatitis C outbreak in recent U.S. history dropped their claims against a Minot, N.D., nursing home, which joined them in suing a hospital, which they both say is really at fault. Twenty-one...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Washington Nursing Home
Mar 7 2016 // A nursing home in Marysville, Wash., has again been accused of giving a patient inadequate care that resulted in death. An Edmonds lawyer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Marysville Care Center in connection...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Washington Nursing Home
Feb 24 2016 // A nursing home in Marysville, Wash has again been accused of giving a patient inadequate care that resulted in death. The Daily Herald reported an Edmonds lawyer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Marysville...
Battered by Long-Term Insurance Losses, Genworth Eyes Asset Sales
Feb 15 2016 // Genworth Financial Inc., the insurer battered by losses on long-term care coverage, has said it could pursue more divestitures to help pay down more than $500 million in debt maturing in 2018 as turmoil in the bond market...
Propel Insurance in Washington Brings Swan to Senior Living Practice
Dec 18 2015 // Tacoma, Wash.-based Propel Insurance announced that Carl Swan has joined the firm’s national senior living practice as a sales executive. Swan comes with significant experience within the industry, having spent the...
Kentucky Governor Orders Nursing Homes to Perform National Background Checks
Nov 25 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the...
