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Nursing Home Insiders Rarely Report Nursing Home Abuse… And That Needs to Change Updated 5-10-2019 A CBC News investigation revealed 12 allegations of physical and verbal nursing home abuse in New Brunswick facilities in 2015. In the aftermath, investigations were performed with details noted. However, when these investigations were subsequently requested, nursing home staff heavily...

The Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation nursing home has lost its ability to collect reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid due to multiple incidents involving resident elopement, according to a Salisbury Post article. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid terminated government payments to the facility because a demented resident was allowed to exit the nursing home...

Darcy Hall of Life Care is a West Palm Beach nursing home located at 2170 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33409. The facility has 220 beds and is one of the largest in Palm Beach County. While the facility currently enjoys an above average rating on Medicare.gov, Darcy Hall nursing home has...

Health Service Management Inc. has agreed to a $5,000,000 settlement with the US government in a nursing home whistleblower lawsuit. $1 million is being awarded to the brave nursing home employee who exposed the problems inside the facility. HSM settled the case involving allegations that the nursing home billed Medicare and Medicaid for worthless and...

How Can I Obtain an Incident Report in my Hospital Injury Case? This post on obtaining hospital adverse incident reports was updated on May 9, 2019.  Explaining the Hospital ‘Adverse Incident Report’ When things go bad in a hospital, the law requires an investigation. The internal investigative body within the hospital will then create an...

Grand Villa Delray Beach – A Tale of Two Facilities Grand Villa operates two different Assisted Living Facilities in Delray Beach that are located within a mile of each other. One ALF is known as Grand Villa of Delray East while the other assisted living is called Grand Villa of Delray West. Both Grand Villa...

Barrington Terrace of Boynton Beach has been sued in nursing home negligence and assisted living wrongful death lawsuits. Barrington Terrace Boynton has also been cited by the State of Florida for violations of Florida’s Administrative Code. So how does Barrington Terrace of Boynton Beach’s history of lawsuits and violations impact the quality of care provided...

Lawsuits, Complaints and Violations Against Brookdale Palm Beach Gardens of Prosperity Oaks Brookdale Palm Beach Gardens Assisted Living Profile Brookdale Palm Beach Gardens is located at 11381 Prosperity Farms Road Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. The legal licensee was S-H OPCO Prosperity Oaks, but in 2018, it changed to BKD PALM BEACH GARDENS, LLC. In...

A recent USA Today article found that it would be cheaper for seniors to live full-time on a cruise ship versus pay to live an Assisted Living Facility. Sounds crazy right? Well, the investigation proves that skyrocketing cost of assisted living is a growing problem for America’s aging baby boomers. Costs of Living in Assisted...

The Upward Trend of Serious Nursing Home Abuse Incidents A comprehensive study performed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reviewed all registered complaints against nursing homes in every state from 2011 to 2015. The Office of the Inspector General completed this study because of the suspected upward trend of nursing home abuse...