Nursing Home Closures due to Lack of Funding

Across the nation nursing homes are closing due to underfunding. The nursing homes are primarily closing in minority and poor areas because of underfunding by Medicaid. The average nursing home worker earns close to minimum wage, much less than other health care workers, which makes it difficult to hire good help. Medicaid covers close to 2/3 of nursing facilities funding, the rest comes from individuals either private-pay or insurance. Medicare will pays for a short-term rehabilitation, but does not reimburse for long-term care in a nursing home.
The states with the highest cuts are New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Minority communities, mainly Black and Hispanic, are having the most trouble keeping their nursing homes open. The best solution would be to improve access to home-based care and other community-based care models, such as assisted living facilities.
With nursing homes closing, the elderly are having trouble finding places to live. Between 1998 and 2008, there has been a 5% decrease in the number of  beds available.
Think you have been neglected by a nursing home? Contact LegalView today regarding your legal options regarding nursing homes today. Call 1-866-9LAW-NOW (1-866-952-9669) for a lawyer that can advise you on your legal options and help you pursue justice.
Tags: Negligence, Nursing Homes
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 7:30 am and is filed under Medical Malpractice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Nursing Home Closures due to Lack of Funding

Across the nation nursing homes are closing due to underfunding. The nursing homes are primarily closing in minority and poor areas because of underfunding by Medicaid. The average nursing home worker earns close to minimum wage, much less than other health care workers, which makes it difficult to hire good help. Medicaid covers close to 2/3 of nursing facilities funding, the rest comes from individuals either private-pay or insurance. Medicare will pays for a short-term rehabilitation, but does not reimburse for long-term care in a nursing home.

The states with the highest cuts are New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Minority communities, mainly Black and Hispanic, are having the most trouble keeping their nursing homes open. The best solution would be to improve access to home-based care and other community-based care models, such as assisted living facilities.

With nursing homes closing, the elderly are having trouble finding places to live. Between 1998 and 2008, there has been a 5% decrease in the number of  beds available.

Think you have been neglected by a nursing home? Contact LegalView today regarding your legal options regarding nursing homes today. Call 1-866-9LAW-NOW (1-866-952-9669) for a lawyer that can advise you on your legal options and help you pursue justice.

Tags: Negligence, Nursing Homes

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 7:30 am and is filed under Medical Malpractice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Nursing Home Closures due to Lack of Funding

Across the nation nursing homes are closing due to underfunding. The nursing homes are primarily closing in minority and poor areas because of underfunding by Medicaid. The average nursing home worker earns close to minimum wage, much less than other health care workers, which makes it difficult to hire good help. Medicaid covers close to 2/3 of nursing facilities funding, the rest comes from individuals either private-pay or insurance. Medicare will pays for a short-term rehabilitation, but does not reimburse for long-term care in a nursing home.

The states with the highest cuts are New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Minority communities, mainly Black and Hispanic, are having the most trouble keeping their nursing homes open. The best solution would be to improve access to home-based care and other community-based care models, such as assisted living facilities.

With nursing homes closing, the elderly are having trouble finding places to live. Between 1998 and 2008, there has been a 5% decrease in the number of  beds available.

Think you have been neglected by a nursing home? Contact LegalView today regarding your legal options regarding nursing homes today. Call 1-866-9LAW-NOW (1-866-952-9669) for a lawyer that can advise you on your legal options and help you pursue justice.

Tags: Negligence, Nursing Homes

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 7:30 am and is filed under Medical Malpractice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Bed Railing Kills Man in Nursing Home

It is not unusual for someone in a nursing home to die. In fact, many of them are expected to die. However, Harry Griph Sr. a 75-year-old retired phone company worker was killed in his nursing home when he got his neck got trapped between the railing on his bed and his mattress. Griph was in an assisted living facility as a hospice patient and on Christmas morning he was found dead. Reason, suffocation by his bed railing.

Griph’s children sued the nursing home, the hospice provider, the maker of the bed and the vendor that supplied the bed for their father’s tragic and preventable death. All have been settled except the case against the assisted living facility. The lawsuit alleging negligence against the facility continues.

The nursing home used the beds despite the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned about the danger the bed rails posed back in 1995. The nursing home claims that the bed with rails are used because the rails decrease the fall risk by 10 to 15 percent, but when someone does fall it increases the risk of injuries by 20 percent.

The FDA has counted more than 480 deaths and 138 injuries with the entrapment cases in these beds and on top of that another 185 close calls, however there may be many other cases that have gone unreported.

There should be no such thing as a preventable death. If you know of a loved one who has been injured or died from bed rail entrapment in a nursing home or assisted living facility please contact LegalView today. Call 1-866-9LAW-NOW (1-866-952-9669) for a wrongful death lawyer that can advise you on your legal options and help you pursue justice.

Tags: Medical Malpractice, Negligence

This entry was posted on Friday, November 5th, 2010 at 11:18 am and is filed under Medical Malpractice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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