Latest Senior Care Headlines

All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.

New York Insurance Broker Caught in $38 Million Nursing Home Tax Fraud Scheme

Nov 20 2024 // Prosecutors report that a New York insurance broker has admitted his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country,U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced that...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder

Nov 18 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder

Nov 1 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...

Louisiana Nursing Home Owner to Pay $8.2M for Misusing Assets During Ida

Oct 22 2024 // Louisiana nursing home owner Bob Dean Jr. and several companies he operated have agreed to an $8.2 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that they misappropriated and misused the assets and income of four nursing...

Senior Living Facilities Face Labor Shortages, Nuclear Verdicts and Changing Insurance Market

Sep 16 2024 // Continuing worker shortages, the threat of nuclear verdicts in some geographical locations, and the implementation of new technology are all shaping the property/casualty insurance market for senior living...

New Mexico Nursing Home Inspections Find at Least 1 Violation in 88% of Facilities

Aug 8 2024 // Recent unannounced inspections of nursing homes across New Mexico found at least one violation in 88% of them, authorities said.State health officials said just 11 of the 91 assisted living facilities received a perfect...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Sued for Firing Worker With Sleep Disorder

Aug 2 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her sleep disorder and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment...

Nursing Home Operators Must Pay $35.8 Million in Back Wages and Damages

Aug 1 2024 // In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers in nursing,...

Washington Adult Home Operator Facing Felony Charge in Alleged Workers’ Comp Scam

Jul 17 2024 // A Spokane, Washington woman who ran an adult family home while claiming she was too injured to work faces a felony charge in a $60,000 workers’ compensation fraud case.Serah Kamau, 52, reportedly operated her...

Texas Nursing Care Facility Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit for $50K

Feb 13 2024 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates nursing care facilities across Texas and Louisiana, will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Elderly Man Fatally Shoots Wife, Self at Florida Assisted Living Facility

Jan 25 2024 // ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An elderly man fatally shot his wife and then himself at an assisted living facility in Florida, police said Tuesday.Staff at the Addington Place at College Harbor facility found the couple...

One Resident Still Missing as St. Louis Nursing Home Abruptly Closes

Dec 28 2023 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – One person is still missing a week after the abrupt closure of St. Louis` largest nursing home left roughly 170 residents scattered at new facilities throughout the city, a state health department...

New York Court Upholds Nursing Home COVID-19 Immunity

Dec 4 2023 // A New York state appellate court has ruled that an April 2021 state law repealing a March 2020 grant of immunity to nursing homes over their handling of COVID-19 patients is not retroactive.The ruling means a nursing...

Turnover, Inflation, Operating Costs Add to Insurance Woes for Senior Living Industry

Sep 4 2023 // Professional liability and property insurance are top of mind for senior living operators, who are experiencing a challenging market driven by high staff turnover, inflation and heighted operating costs.The cost of labor...

Illinois Nursing Facility to Pay $400K in Pregnancy Discrimination Case

Apr 13 2023 // Symphony Deerbrook, LLC will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over conduct at its Symphony of Joliet...

Florida Nursing Home Operator Acquitted of Causing Patient Deaths in Hurricane Irma

Feb 27 2023 // A judge on Friday acquitted a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017, saying that his employees had provided care and prosecutors had not...

Hurricane Irma Deaths at Florida Nursing Home: Accident or Manslaughter?

Feb 8 2023 // A Florida nursing home administrator charged with causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017 went on trial Monday, with a prosecutor calling him a “captain who abandoned ship”...

Funeral Home Finds Woman Alive Hours After Nursing Home Pronounced Her Dead

Feb 8 2023 // An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken, authorities said.The woman was pronounced dead at Water’s...

Colorado Nursing Home Worker Acquitted in Death of Alzheimer’s Victim Left in Heat

Feb 7 2023 // One of three assisted living facility workers prosecuted in the death of an 86-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease left outside in 100-degree heat has been acquitted.Jurors found Jenny Logan, 52, not guilty of...

La. Nursing Home Owner Faces New Lawsuit in Ida Storm Evacuation

Jan 17 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he...