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The high rate of nursing home resident deaths and infections related to COVID-19 has led government officials, health advocates, and university researchers to take a closer look at the quality of care. What many of them found is a vital medical institution in crisis. Nearly every nursing home in the U.S. is understaffed, according to...

A bombshell investigation found that deaths among Medicare patients shot up by 32% nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the report found that low-income nursing home patients covered by Medicare and Medicaid were much more likely to have gotten COVID-19....

It’s been more than 10 years since allegations of wrongdoing first surfaced, but SavaSeniorCare has finally settled its federal case involving nursing home abuse and neglect.  SavaSeniorCare has agreed to pay $11.2 million to move past claims that the agency provided substandard care and inflated billing in the pursuit of bigger profits. In addition to...

State lawmakers are requesting federal investigators to review the COVID-19 death counts at Georgia nursing homes following some big discrepancies between state and federal data. According to an article by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sen. Raphael Warnock and Rep. Hank Johnson, who both serve as members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and House Committee...

After a staggering 157 homicides, 2020 went down as a historically violent year for Atlanta - but 2021 is already on pace to be even worse. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported the homicide rate for this year is ahead of 2020's pace, as murders have skyrocketed by roughly 60% through the first three months of...

Nursing homes have been considered the most dangerous hotspots during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus impacted roughly 31,000 nursing homes in the United States. It has also infected more than 1 million residents and staff members. This resulted in more than 163,000 deaths. Overall, nursing homes accounted for only about 5 percent of infections in...

Property owners have legal responsibilities We haven't quite reached the end of 2020, but we've already surpassed 2019 in terms of homicides. FOX5 Atlanta reported that there have been 130 murders in the city this year, compared to just 99 in all of 2019, and that 2019 figure was itself an increase from 2017 and...

Unfortunately, some of the most vulnerable people in Georgia and across the United States suffer abuse and neglect in assisted living facilities. There’s no question that it is a widespread and heartbreaking problem. About one in six people who are 60 and older experience some form of abuse in a community setting, according to the...

The number is staggering: 68,000 nursing home deaths due to the coronavirus. How many of these deaths could have been avoided? Many, if not most of them, according to an opinion piece in The New York Times. The article lays out a powerful argument for nationwide nursing home reform during COVID-19, the disease caused by...