Articles
In
the
News
Are nursing home residents overmedicated with antipsychotic medications? These medications can be misused as chemical restraints, to sedate or restrain elderly patients for the staff’s convenience. This article explains how some 30% of all residents of nursing homes are receiving antipsychotic medications.
Click
here.
This informative N.Y.
Times article exposes how nursing homes insulate themselves from liability by creating complex corporate structures, while at the same time cutting nursing staff to increase their profits. With nursing homes making some 75 billion a year just from taxpayer programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and the expected growth in the business as baby boomers come of age, long term care is big business that’s attracting more
Wall
Street
attention and big investments groups.
Legislators
to
Discuss
Nursing
Home
Sale
Federal and state legislators Wednesday announced plans to conduct hearings into the pending sale of 28 Michigan nursing homes to a private-equity firm.
Detroit
Free
Press
|
November
8,
2007
|
