Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Family Files $1.27M Wrongful Death Suit Against Oregon Nursing Home
Sep 28 2018 // The family of an 86-year-old woman who died following a fall is suing a nursing home for $1.27 million. The Statesman-Journal reported the wrongful death lawsuit, filed this week in Marion County Circuit Court, accuses the...
Arkansas Nursing Care Facility Sued for Sexual Harassment, Retaliation
Sep 18 2018 // Federal officials allege in a lawsuit that Happy Valley LLC d/b/a Happy Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation in Malvern, Ark., failed to address sexual harassment complaints made by female employees and terminated those...
Judge Allows Suit Against Crow Nursing Home in Montana to Proceed
Jul 31 2018 // A federal judge is allowing a woman to proceed with a lawsuit that claims the Crow tribe’s nursing home leaders in Montana conspired to fire her for reporting that a patient had been molested. Tammy Wilhite is a...
Fire Sparked by Air Conditioning Unit at Tennessee Assisted Living Facility Injures 1
Jul 18 2018 // A fire official says a blaze at a Tennessee assisted living facility injured one person and led to dozens of others being evacuated from the building. Officials told news outlets that an air conditioning unit caught fire...
New Florida Law Requires Backup Power Sources for Nursing Homes
Mar 28 2018 // Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Monday requiring backup power sources in Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities, months after the deaths of several residents from a sweltering nursing home that lost power...
Assisted Living Facility Staffer Accused of Stealing Funds in New Jersey
Mar 26 2018 // Federal prosecutors say the business manager of an assisted living facility stole about $237,000 from an elderly victim under her care. Marcella Drakeford faces six counts of mail fraud. Prosecutors say that beginning in...
GE Still Grappling with Legacy Insurance Business
Jan 16 2018 // General Electric Co. will take a $6.2 billion charge for the fourth quarter as the manufacturing behemoth grapples with lingering problems in a legacy insurance business. The after-tax charge will be $7.5 billion when...
Report: Florida Nursing Home Temperatures After Irma Reached Sweltering Level
Jan 12 2018 // Florida regulators say temperatures rose to 99 degrees (37 Celsius) in a sweltering nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 12 residents after Hurricane Irma. A Sun Sentinel report says a document filed by the...
West Virginia Nursing Home Owes $124K in Back Pay to 500 Workers
Dec 27 2017 // A West Virginia nursing home and rehabilitation company has agreed to pay nearly $124,000 in back wages and damages to about 500 workers to resolve allegations that it violated overtime rules. The U.S. Department of Labor...
What to Know About the Senior Care Market
Dec 13 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Tennessee Fines Nursing Home $50K For Patient Deaths
Dec 4 2017 // Tennessee state inspectors found widespread neglect resulting in patients’ deaths at a nursing home that has been fined $50,000, the most of any such penalty ever imposed. The Commercial Appeal cites the inspection...
The Lowdown on Senior Living
Nov 29 2017 // The latest issue of Insurance Journal is dedicated to the senior living market and includes references to an in depth report on the industry by Argentum, the largest national association exclusively dedicated to the senior...
Four Missing in Pennsylvania Senior Home Inferno
Nov 22 2017 // Four people are missing and presumed dead following last week’s fire at a Pennsylvania senior living community. The massive blaze tore through Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester late Thursday,...
Florida Nursing Home to Congress: Patient Deaths After Hurricane Irma Not Staff’s Fault
Nov 22 2017 // A Florida nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 13 patients after Hurricane Irma says in a letter to Congress that staff members did everything possible but couldn’t overcome a lack of power to the...
The Senior Care Market Still Going Strong
Nov 20 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Liability Costs Continue to Rise for Long Term Care Industry
Nov 20 2017 // The cost of liability continues to increase for the long term care profession, according to the 2017 Long Term Care General Liability and Professional Liability Actuarial Analysis by Aon Risk Consulting and the American...
Active Shooter and Senior Living Risks
Nov 20 2017 // One area of emerging risk for many industries, including the long term care or senior living market, is active shooter risk. Not only are residents/patients at risk, but so are senior living facility employees. “An...
Court Sides with Florida Nursing Homes in Emergency Generator Battle With Gov
Oct 30 2017 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s push to force nursing homes to add generators in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma could be blocked after a judge ruled there was no pressing danger that justifies the order. Scott called for...
Court Sides with Florida Gov in Battle Over Nursing Home Generators
Oct 23 2017 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has won the first round in a legal tug-of-war over his mandate that nursing homes and assisted living facilities install generators. The 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected a legal...
Florida Irma-Related Nursing Home Deaths Climb to 14
Oct 11 2017 // Two women who lived at a Florida nursing home that lost air conditioning during Hurricane Irma have died, bringing to 14 the number of fatalities linked to the home. Cecilia Franco, 90, and Francesca Andrade, 95, died from...
