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Emerging from pandemic, senior care facilities face a host of challenges
Steve Coetzee doesn’t know what the future holds for the senior community he runs in Boonsboro. The Fahrney Keedy community has felt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, […]
‘Protected them to death’: Elder-care COVID-19 rules under fire
Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes.
Despite vaccines, nursing homes still struggle with COVID-19 outbreaks
COVID-19 vaccines have allowed nursing homes in the U.S. to make dramatic progress since the darkest days of the pandemic, but senior care facilities are still experiencing scattered outbreaks largely blamed on unvaccinated staff members.
Maryland nursing homes fined for not providing virus info
At least two dozen Nursing homes have been fined by the state of Maryland because they failed to provide information on coronavirus cases and deaths.
Md. officials immune from suit for alleged Medicaid wrongs, 4th Circuit says
Nursing homes cannot sue state officials to recover unpaid Medicaid benefits on behalf of past patients, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in denying compensation requests by three Maryland facilities […]
Federal judge allows suit claiming retaliatory regulation by officials to proceed
A federal lawsuit alleging state officials targeted a group of nursing homes with enforcement procedures and violated their constitutional rights can proceed, a judge ruled after finding the plaintiff had sufficiently pleaded its claims.
Frosh can seek relief for nursing-home residents, court says
Maryland’s attorney general can seek a court order blocking the involuntary discharge of multiple nursing-home residents, state’s top court unanimously rules.
Frosh leads states’ opposition to pre-dispute binding arbitration in nursing homes
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is leading a group of 18 attorneys general opposing a federal agency plan to revise a rule prohibiting pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses in long-term care contracts. […]
Data-mining in the nursing home?
The real value of electronic health records, experts say, is that they enable data-mining, which can help optimize patient care.
Nursing homes lag behind on electronic records
Nursing homes and post-acute health facilities that don't use electronic health records are going to get left behind, health experts say.
Baltimore nursing home workers plan strike
About 50 workers at Fayette Health & Rehabilitation Center in Baltimore are beginning a 24-hour strike Thursday morning to protest the most recent contract proposal from the nursing home’s management.
After 39 years, murder convict leaves prison for nursing home
When all of the procedural information was finished — when a bed-ridden James R. Gilmore was released from prison Wednesday after serving nearly 39 years for killing his wife — his lawyer turned to him.
