Unnoticed in most of the discussion about the economy in Washington is the probable effect of the recession on the elderly in nursing homes. Throughout the country state legislatures are debating reductions in reimbursement for nursing home services to be paid by Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare are considering similar reductions. Some nursing home [...]
A particularly dangerous form of infection for nursing home patients is often a result of taking antibiotics. Clostridium difficile, usually abbreviated as c. diff., has become more widespread and deadly for nursing home and hospital patients.
Many hospital and nursing home patients have to take antibiotics for some type of infection. For example, very [...]
Medicare rates nursing homes throughout the country with a five star rating system created to help consumers and their families to compare nursing homes. The ratings are based on health inspections, staffing levels and a variety of quality measures. Trained inspectors from state agencies do on-site inspections. Federal surveyors check on the state agency work [...]
Many of our clients have told us that when their elderly loved ones are in a hospital, nurses used wrist restraints and bedside rails to keep them from falling out of bed. Then after the hospital at a nursing home, the nurses claim that side rails cannot be used because they are “restraint’ and they [...]