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Nursing homes have a responsibility to respect dignity One of a nursing home's fundamental responsibilities is to maintain a safe environment for residents, and sometimes, that includes dangers posed by residents themselves. People with medical conditions such as dementia may lose control of their behavior and become a threat to themselves or others. In extreme...

How can nursing homes hide abuse and neglect cases from the public? You might have found a nursing home with glowing reviews for your loved one. Perhaps you checked the rating system run through the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and felt confident knowing your loved one will be in good care. But...

A Georgia Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Attorney Discusses the Problem It's getting harder and harder to find people willing to work in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care facilities. The problem is even worse in Georgia, where 1 in 4 nursing homes earns a 1-star rating — the lowest score possible...

A Georgia nursing home neglect lawyer explains why A federal appeals court ruling could help cases move forward for families who lost loved ones in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a Reuters report, a federal appeals court in October 2021 decided that lawsuits should proceed in state courts. Nursing homes argued the...

A nursing home abuse and neglect lawyer in Atlanta, GA explains the dangers of overmedicating Nursing home residents across the country are at risk for many different types of nursing home abuse and neglect. Medication errors are one example. Nursing home staff have a responsibility to ensure residents are properly diagnosed, receive the correct medication,...

A new report reveals Georgia is one of the worst states when it comes to conducting inspections of nursing homes. The troubling report, detailed in the Albany Herald, finds that nearly all of Georgia’s nursing homes (93%) went for 16 months without a comprehensive inspection. Georgia ranked second to last, with Connecticut being at the...

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...