Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
10 Things to Know About Long Term Care & Assisted Living
Nov 16 2015 // A 2015 survey of affluent adults between the ages of 50 and 68 conducted by Greenwald & Associates on behalf of John Hancock Insurance found that only three in 10 have actually made a plan to address long term care as...
ProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp
Oct 14 2015 // This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission. Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by...
Kentucky Nursing Home Industry Seeks Less Regulation
Oct 14 2015 // Kentucky’s nursing home industry is seeking relief from what it calls heavy-handed state oversight even though a recent review found multiple instances where its residents have been mistreated. The review by The...
Glatfelter Launches Risk Management Tool for Long Term Care Facilities
Aug 27 2015 // Glatfelter Healthcare Practice, an insurance program serving senior living facilities, home health care and other private homecare agencies, and VorroHealth, a provider of clinical, AR/billing and interoperable technology...
West Virginia to Require Criminal Background Checks for Long-Term Care Workers
Aug 13 2015 // West Virginia’s new state program requires criminal background checks for applicants seeking certain jobs at long-term care facilities. Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen L. Bowling announced the launch of...
Labor Department’s 6-Part Test for Classifying Employees, Independent Contractors
Jul 16 2015 // The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a blog post with new guidance on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), an issue that has attracted renewed...
