Nursing Home Information and Articles
Is Your Loved One in the Correct Facility?
October 15th, 2024
One of the most important things to consider when facing the challenging decision to place a loved one in a facility is, what type of facility does my loved one need? What level of care does my loved one need? There are independent living facilities,…
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Arbors at Carroll
October 9th, 2024
It was recently reported in the news that the Lucas County Coroner concluded that 72 year old Lucy Garcia died on July 2, 2024 from months of medical neglect at the Arbors at Oregon Nursing Home, a nursing home located in Oregon, Ohio. There a number…
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What is Elopement?
October 3rd, 2024
If you say the word “elopement”, most people think about a couple running off to get married. In the nursing home industry, elopement refers to a resident who leaves the nursing home unattended. Some nursing home residents are lucid. They…
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Former owner of collapsed Skyline chain headed to trial over alleged $39M fraud scheme
September 30th, 2024
The former owner of Skyline Healthcare will stand trial next year on allegations that he perpetuated a nearly $39 million fraud that played into the collapse of his quickly assembled, multi-state nursing home portfolio. During a brief hearing Thursda…
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Ohio family says they plan to sue nursing home after matriarch's death ruled a homicide
September 30th, 2024
The family of an Ohio woman who died of sepsis after she developed a pressure wound at a nursing home is calling for justice for their matriarch. Lucy Garcia was 72 years old when she died on July 2. She had previously been a resident at Arbors at Or…
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Arbors at Oregon
September 26th, 2024
According to an autopsy report by the Lucas County Coroner, 72‑year-old Lucy Garcia died on July 2, 2024 after months of neglect. She was a resident for a number of years at the Arbors at Oregon Nursing Home. The Arbors at Oregon Nursing Home is lo…
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‘A terrible way to go’: Nursing home resident died from severe bed sores, months of neglect, coroner says
September 26th, 2024
By Alexis Means and Emily Van de Riet TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) – A family is demanding answers after their mother’s death was ruled a homicide from months of medical neglect at an Ohio nursing home. According to an autopsy report from the Lu…
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Embassy of Lyndhurst
September 18th, 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also known as CMS, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, has a Center for Clinical Status and Quality/Quality Safety and Oversight Group. This group monitors nursing homes. They hav…
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Resident on Resident Assault
September 13th, 2024
I recently read an article about a disagreement between two residents at a local nursing home in Scioto County. During the argument, a female resident pushed her walker into a male resident. She threw a cup of ice in his face. He pushed her walker ba…
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$83M Fraud Case Against Nursing Home Group May Proceed, With No Defendants Excused
September 4th, 2024
A New York Supreme Court judge threw out all arguments from lawyers for an embattled group of nursing homes that sought to have charges dismissed in a case accusing the owners and operators of $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Judge Melissa…
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The Ohio Supreme Court has only considered two (2) cases that involved the rights of nursing home residents and I was involved in both cases.
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