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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...

COVID-19 deaths briefly dropped in June before making a swift comeback, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal cites federal data showing a massive increase in new cases, primarily fueled by states like Texas and Florida. Nursing home residents are among the most vulnerable members of society when it comes to COVID-19 infections. During the...

The COVID-19 virus pandemic has taken a great toll on nursing homes. Georgia is no exception. Data.CMS.gov, a federal government website managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports the state, for the week ending July 26, had recorded 5,737 cases and 1,128 deaths at nursing homes. The state’s rate of 202.5 cases...

The nursing home chain SavaSeniorCare, based in Atlanta, is part of a Congressional investigation into the coronavirus crisis in long-term care facilities. Nearly half of Sava’s 13 nursing homes in Georgia have had major COVID-19 outbreaks, according to an AJC article about the probe. Rep. James Clyburn, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the...