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Ignore the political rhetoric and learn about the actual Obama Health
care bill by clicking on
this
link.
Hospital sues nursing home alleging that it dumped a severely brain damaged patient and then refused to take him
back.
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more,
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Congress is again considering passage of the Nursing Home Transparency Act. This act will help assure good standards of care are followed in the long term care industry and strengthen accountability requirements for individual facilities. Read more about this act by clicking on the below link. Consider contacting your congressman to ask him to support this important legislation.
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Medicare is implementing a new policy of not paying for medical errors or neglect.
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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.
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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
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November
8,
2007
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