All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2017 // A 12th patient has died after being taken from an overheated Florida nursing home that lost its air conditioning during Hurricane Irma, officials confirmed on Friday.Dolores Biamonte, 57, died Thursday night, according to...
Sep 28 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has introduced an Active Shooter/Armed Intruder Readiness Program for senior living communities.The Active Shooter/Armed Intruder Readiness Program is designed to help senior living communities plan...
Sep 25 2017 // After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott.Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the...
Sep 22 2017 // Florida officials have suspended the license of a nursing home that had nine patients die after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning.The Agency for Health Care Administration said Wednesday that it suspended the...
Sep 21 2017 // Senior citizens are being warned to be on the lookout for unlicensed health insurance companies in Delaware. The companies have been marketing and selling plans to residents of long-term care and nursing home facilities in...
Sep 18 2017 // The first 911 call from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn’t sound ominous: A nursing home patient had an abnormal heartbeat.An hour later, came a second call: a patient had trouble breathing. Then...
Sep 15 2017 // Eight patients at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, raising fears about the safety of Florida’s 4 million senior citizens amid power outages that could last for...
Aug 29 2017 // More than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law requiring...
Aug 22 2017 // An investigation led by the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) Bureau of Insurance Fraud has led to the arrest of a Miami insurance agent for attempting to evade a higher insurance premium for his assisted...
Jun 5 2017 // The United States Supreme Court says a Kentucky nursing home can require the families of two former residents to pursue claims against the home outside of court. The justices ruled 7-1 last month that the home could...
May 19 2017 // A year-long investigation led by insurance fraud investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services has ended with 14 arrests of assisted living facility owners in the Miami area, according to a statement by...
May 17 2017 // The United States Supreme Court says a Kentucky nursing home can require the families of two former residents to pursue claims against the home outside of court. The justice ruled 7-1 on Monday that the home could enforce...
Mar 2 2017 // The Commonwealth Court in Pennsylvania has approved petitions to liquidate Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company and American Network Insurance Company, with policyholder claims set to be paid through the state...
Jan 26 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller will chair a task force as part of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) that will examine issues that impact senior insurance consumers.Commissioner...
Dec 15 2016 // Ten people were hospitalized for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas leak occurred at a nursing home on Columbus, Ohio’s Near East Side.Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin says firefighters were...
Dec 13 2016 // Nearly two dozen victims of one of the largest hepatitis C outbreaks in recent U.S. history have settled their claims against a Minot, N.D., hospital out of court.Neither plaintiffs’ attorney Behdad Sadeghi nor...
Dec 6 2016 // An Iowa nursing home has been fined $11,513 after an investigation into the death of a resident in August.The Mason City Globe Gazette reports federal regulators imposed the fine after a state investigation determined that...
Nov 21 2016 // A woman who spent more than seven years in prison for a $7 million insurance fraud and the unrelated death of a patient at her now-defunct Pennsylvania nursing home is in trouble with the law again.This time, the Allegheny...
Nov 21 2016 // Samantha Jones of “Sex and the City” is probably a few decades away from moving into a senior living community. Nevertheless, the topic of sexual expression in senior living communities is a resident matter...
Nov 17 2016 // Tennessee health officials have ordered a nursing home to stop taking new residents and pay a $6,100 fine for violations.A Tennessee Department of Health news release Monday says Creekside Health and Rehabilitation in...