Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Proposed New Orleans Ordinance Aims for Safer Senior Living Facilities in Ida’s Aftermath
Oct 18 2021 // A new ordinance being proposed in New Orleans is designed to protect residents at apartment complexes for seniors during disasters like Hurricane Ida, which wiped out power to the city and stranded hundreds of people in...
Southeast Senior Living Complexes Agree to Pay $450,000 in Settlement Claims over FHA, ADA Violations
Sep 20 2021 // The Justice Department announced that the developer and owners of eight senior living complexes in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee have agreed to pay $450,000 to settle claims that they violated the...
Ex-Owner of Virginia Assisted Living Facility Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Sep 17 2021 // The former owner of a Richmond, Virginia, assisted living facility pleaded guilty to health care fraud after spending more than $800,000 meant for residents’ care on travel, gambling expenses and personal debts,...
Analysis: Ida Prompts New Look at Storm Safety Plans for Nursing Homes
Sep 13 2021 // Among the many tragic stories in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida are the deaths of seven Louisiana nursing home residents who were evacuated to a warehouse where health inspectors say conditions quickly became unsafe once...
Louisiana Nursing Homes Lose Licenses After Ida Deaths
Sep 9 2021 // Louisiana health officials said Sept. 8 they are revoking the licenses of nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where seven residents died amid deteriorating conditions deemed too squalid to be safe after...
Fewer Virus Vaccinations Among Missouri Nursing Home Workers than Most States
Aug 31 2021 // Officials face a tall order to get all Missouri nursing home workers vaccinated because fewer than half of them have received the shots. By that metric, Missouri’s 48% ranks third-lowest in the nation, trailed only...
Notting Hill RRG Launches Long-Term Care Facilities Program
Aug 27 2021 // Notting Hill Risk Retention Group, LLC has launched a new Healthcare Facilities Program designed to meet the needs of skilled nursing, residential care, assisted living and independent living facilities as well as home...
Biden Administration to Require Nursing Home Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Aug 19 2021 // President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid government...
COVID-19 Cases Skyrocket in Texas Nursing Homes; Nearly Half of Workers Unvaccinated
Aug 16 2021 // The number of nursing homes across the state with at least one active COVID-19 case has shot up nearly 800% in the past month — while nearly half of nursing home employees in Texas remain unvaccinated. Nursing home...
Report Says Fatal New York Assisted Living Fire Linked to Cleaning Ritual
Jul 6 2021 // A father and son charged in a deadly fire at a suburban New York assisted living facility had been performing a pre-Passover cleaning ritual that involves heating kitchen utensils to burn off traces of forbidden food, the...
Suit Filed Against 11 N.Y. Skilled Nursing Facilities for Fraud, Unnecessary Services
Jun 18 2021 // A civil healthcare fraud lawsuit against 11 New York-based skilled nursing facilities alleges that they fraudulently inflated Medicare reimbursements by prolonging patient stays without regard to patients’ medical...
Connecticut Offering $280M to Nursing Homes to Avoid Strikes
May 13 2021 // Connecticut officials on Monday proposed an additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes in an effort to avoid strikes by nearly 4,000 health workers that are set to begin Friday if negotiations fail. Democratic...
Critics Say Indiana COVID-19 Liability Shield Allows Nursing Home Neglect
May 12 2021 // Advocates for nursing home residents say they worry a new Indiana law expanding COVID-19 liability protections for healthcare providers will effectively block many lawsuits over neglect and substandard treatment that...
Illinois Black, Latino Nursing Home Deaths Linked to Overcrowding
Apr 30 2021 // Overcrowding at some Illinois nursing homes caused a disproportionate number of preventable deaths among Black and Latino residents living in those facilities, state officials say. The Department of Healthcare and Family...
Minnesota Nursing Home Fined $27K After Employee’s Coronavirus Death
Apr 27 2021 // A suburban Minneapolis nursing home has paid the state’s largest fine for a coronavirus-related safety violation after an employee contracted COVID-19 and died. State Labor Department inspection files show Sholom...
Nursing Home in Washington Paying $8M in Sexual Assault Suit
Apr 9 2021 // A Seattle nursing home’s insurer has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a disabled woman who was sexually assaulted while in the facility’s care. Foss Home and Village agreed to...
California Suing Major Nursing Home Operator
Mar 17 2021 // California’s attorney general and local officials sued the nation’s largest senior living home operator Monday, alleging the company misled consumers on quality ratings and broke laws intended to protect...
Virus Limits for Businesses, Nursing Homes Eased in Michigan
Mar 4 2021 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced the further loosening of Michigan’s coronavirus restrictions, easing capacity limits in restaurants and a host of other businesses while also allowing for larger indoor and outdoor...
French Families Join Class Action After Thousands of COVID Deaths in Nursing Homes
Mar 4 2021 // PARIS – A Paris court [held] a hearing Wednesday in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies accountable after thousands with the virus died in nursing homes, and families were locked out and...
Judge Orders Release of New York Data on Long-Term Care Deaths
Feb 8 2021 // A state judge ordered New York’s Department of Health to release records about nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in a ruling that said the agency’s failure to do so already was a...
