Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Settles With 5 Nursing Homes Over Patient Neglect Claims
May 4 2022 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for...
Indiana Senior Living Facility to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Apr 6 2022 // Heart of CarDon, a Bloomington, Indiana-based senior living community, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Kansas Won’t Enforce Vaccine Rule for Nursing Home Workers
Apr 1 2022 // Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s says Kansas won’t enforce a federal mandate that nursing home workers get vaccinated against COVID-19, acknowledging Wednesday that it conflicts with an anti-mandate state law she...
Maine Rights Panel Finds Senior Facility Discriminated Against Transgender Woman
Mar 17 2022 // Maine’s human rights panel has ruled in favor of a transgender woman who complained that she was discriminated against when she was denied a room by an assisted living facility. The Maine Human Rights Commission...
COVID-19 Cases, Deaths on Rise Again at Nursing Homes
Jan 18 2022 // COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members...
Eight Dead from COVID, 89 Infected at Connecticut Nursing Home
Nov 17 2021 // Eight residents of a nursing home in Connecticut have died during a coronavirus outbreak while 89 residents and employees have tested positive for the disease, nursing home officials say. The outbreak at the Geer Nursing...
When a Property Loss Extends to Liability in Senior Care Facilities
Nov 15 2021 // There’s a storm warning. It might be a hurricane, a tornado, a derecho, or a microburst. It doesn’t matter, they all have one similar characteristic, damaging winds. After the storm passes, whether a building...
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...
