CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled Nursing Home Compare to help consumers find the best choices in nursing-home care. It uses the star system: One star is the lowest rating, while five is the highest. As of Feb. 1, 2017, there were 26 one-star nursing home in seven Northeast Ohio […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The agency that provides Ohio's nursing home inspectors -- the officials charged with making sure the state's most vulnerable receive proper care -- is understaffed by at least a dozen employees and, for years, has failed to meet federal deadlines for evaluating facilities... Read More The Dickson Firm believes it is […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio - One incapacitated resident at Park East Care and Rehab Center was tormented by an employee who admitted spraying cleaning solution into his eyes. Another resident died, after Park East's nursing staff apparently twice neglected to clean his breathing tube, according to state and federal reports... Read More The Dickson Firm believes it is […]
Written by and originally posted on The Times Free Press. Life Care Centers of America, the nation's largest private nursing home company based in Cleveland, Tenn., has agreed to pay $145 million over charges that it overbilled the government for its cost of treating patients, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today in a landmark […]
Written by Diane M. Zhang and originally published on the AAJ. On Sept. 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule prohibiting nursing homes from using pre-dispute arbitration agreements in admissions contracts dated on or after Nov. 28, 2016. The rule applies to all skilled nursing facilities that receive money from […]
Our coalition partners in the fight to end forced arbitration have created a fantastic new video showing how Wells Fargo used forced arbitration to hide its massive scheme to create fraudulent accounts in customers’ names. At recent hearings in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Members of Congress chastised Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf […]
People entering nursing homes need to know that all reasonable safeguards are in place to ensure quality care. But federal rules to be finalized soon fail to hold nursing homes truly accountable to patients, their families or the law. At issue are arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts that require consumers to settle any […]
The American Association for Justice is the premier organization of attorneys in the United States who represent individual and their families in lawsuits against big corporations, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, large pharmaceutical companies etc. The Nursing Home Litigation Group is a group of attorneys from around the country within the American Association for […]
The Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys (CATA) recently reported on The Dickson Firm's service to an Ohio family who suffered the loss of a loved one at the Beachwood Pointe Care Centre. Blake ... empowered the jury to send a message to other nursing home owners with similar practices to take notice and change the way […]
Nursing homes are now big business. Extremely large corporations own and operate hundreds of nursing homes throughout the country. Corporate chains are anticipating a flood of baby boomers moving into their facilities over the next few years. Their main goal is to make as much money as possible. This increased emphasis on profits has led […]
