Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Nursing Care Facility Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit for $50K
Feb 13 2024 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates nursing care facilities across Texas and Louisiana, will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Elderly Man Fatally Shoots Wife, Self at Florida Assisted Living Facility
Jan 25 2024 // ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An elderly man fatally shot his wife and then himself at an assisted living facility in Florida, police said Tuesday. Staff at the Addington Place at College Harbor facility found the couple...
One Resident Still Missing as St. Louis Nursing Home Abruptly Closes
Dec 28 2023 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – One person is still missing a week after the abrupt closure of St. Louis` largest nursing home left roughly 170 residents scattered at new facilities throughout the city, a state health department...
New York Court Upholds Nursing Home COVID-19 Immunity
Dec 4 2023 // A New York state appellate court has ruled that an April 2021 state law repealing a March 2020 grant of immunity to nursing homes over their handling of COVID-19 patients is not retroactive. The ruling means a nursing...
Turnover, Inflation, Operating Costs Add to Insurance Woes for Senior Living Industry
Sep 4 2023 // Professional liability and property insurance are top of mind for senior living operators, who are experiencing a challenging market driven by high staff turnover, inflation and heighted operating costs. The cost of labor...
Illinois Nursing Facility to Pay $400K in Pregnancy Discrimination Case
Apr 13 2023 // Symphony Deerbrook, LLC will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over conduct at its Symphony of Joliet...
Florida Nursing Home Operator Acquitted of Causing Patient Deaths in Hurricane Irma
Feb 27 2023 // A judge on Friday acquitted a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017, saying that his employees had provided care and prosecutors had not...
Hurricane Irma Deaths at Florida Nursing Home: Accident or Manslaughter?
Feb 8 2023 // A Florida nursing home administrator charged with causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017 went on trial Monday, with a prosecutor calling him a “captain who abandoned ship”...
Funeral Home Finds Woman Alive Hours After Nursing Home Pronounced Her Dead
Feb 8 2023 // An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken, authorities said. The woman was pronounced dead at Water’s...
Colorado Nursing Home Worker Acquitted in Death of Alzheimer’s Victim Left in Heat
Feb 7 2023 // One of three assisted living facility workers prosecuted in the death of an 86-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease left outside in 100-degree heat has been acquitted. Jurors found Jenny Logan, 52, not guilty of...
La. Nursing Home Owner Faces New Lawsuit in Ida Storm Evacuation
Jan 17 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he...
U.S. Supreme Court Rebuffs Dispute Over Nursing Home COVID Suits
Nov 22 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear California nursing home operator Glenhaven Healthcare’s bid to avoid a lawsuit filed in state court over the COVID-19 death of a resident, turning away the...
Vermont Nursing Home Sued Over Racial Abuse Claims
Sep 9 2022 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Vermont nursing home over allegations that it allowed patients to racially abuse Black staff members. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in...
Senior Care Market Experiencing Revived Competition Amid Hi-Tech Boom
Sep 5 2022 // The insurance market for senior care and housing facilities has emerged from the volatile period of the pandemic and is again responsive and competitive. Premiums that were going up considerably are moderating in some...
Nursing Home Denied ‘Unconscionable’ Arbitration Where Patient Was Blind, Alone
Jul 11 2022 // A Pittsburgh nursing home has been barred from relying upon an arbitration agreement to settle a family’s wrongful death complaint where the arbitration papers had been signed by the deceased woman when she was...
Pennsylvania Republican Campaigns on False Nursing Home COVID Claim
Jul 7 2022 // Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, has made a campaign staple out of the allegation that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing...
People Moves: CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO; CAC Specialty Adds 4 to Senior Living Team; McCann Joins Lockton Re; Canopius Appoints Lee General Counsel
Jun 27 2022 // CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO Patrick Dodd has been appointed president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic, the global property information, analytics and data company. Dodd was named interim chief executive officer in...
Nursing Home Owner Whose Residents Suffered in Ida in Trouble
Jun 24 2022 // The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges...
Indiana’s DOXA Launches Skilled Nursing Facilities Program
Jun 7 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings launched of a new skilled nursing facilities program, created by Promont Insurance Advisors, a subsidiary specializing in program management in the healthcare industry. Promont Skilled Nursing will...
Michigan Senior Living Center Loses Appeal Over Woman’s Death
Jun 6 2022 // The Michigan Supreme Court last week reinstated a lawsuit against a senior living center where an 89-year-old woman was locked out in cold weather and died a few weeks later. In a 4-2 order, the court said Independence...
