All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2016 // Fairview Park, OH, April 12, 2016- McGowan is re-branding its Assisted Living & Nursing Home operations as “McGowan Senior Care.” McGowan Senior Care will operate as a division under McGowan Program...
Mar 22 2016 // A woman has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against a Florence, Ore. nursing home that cared for her 83-year-old father, claiming that it didn’t do enough to address health symptoms that led to his death. The...
Mar 18 2016 // A judge in Wilkinson County, Georgia, has awarded $64.6 million to a man who claimed he was beaten by several employees in a personal-care home.Media outlets report that in January, Judge William Prior issued the final...
Mar 9 2016 // Victims of the largest hepatitis C outbreak in recent U.S. history dropped their claims against a Minot, N.D., nursing home, which joined them in suing a hospital, which they both say is really at fault.Twenty-one outbreak...
Mar 7 2016 // A nursing home in Marysville, Wash., has again been accused of giving a patient inadequate care that resulted in death. An Edmonds lawyer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Marysville Care Center in connection...
Feb 24 2016 // A nursing home in Marysville, Wash has again been accused of giving a patient inadequate care that resulted in death. The Daily Herald reported an Edmonds lawyer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Marysville...
Feb 15 2016 // Genworth Financial Inc., the insurer battered by losses on long-term care coverage, has said it could pursue more divestitures to help pay down more than $500 million in debt maturing in 2018 as turmoil in the bond market...
Dec 18 2015 // Tacoma, Wash.-based Propel Insurance announced that Carl Swan has joined the firm’s national senior living practice as a sales executive. Swan comes with significant experience within the industry, having spent the...
Nov 25 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the...
Nov 16 2015 // A 2015 survey of affluent adults between the ages of 50 and 68 conducted by Greenwald & Associates on behalf of John Hancock Insurance found that only three in 10 have actually made a plan to address long term care as...
Oct 14 2015 // This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission.Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by...
Oct 14 2015 // Kentucky’s nursing home industry is seeking relief from what it calls heavy-handed state oversight even though a recent review found multiple instances where its residents have been mistreated.The review by The...
Aug 27 2015 // Glatfelter Healthcare Practice, an insurance program serving senior living facilities, home health care and other private homecare agencies, and VorroHealth, a provider of clinical, AR/billing and interoperable technology...
Aug 13 2015 // West Virginia’s new state program requires criminal background checks for applicants seeking certain jobs at long-term care facilities.Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen L. Bowling announced the launch of the...
Jul 16 2015 // The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a blog post with new guidance on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), an issue that has attracted renewed...
Apr 21 2015 // ACE Group has introduced four new medical liability coverage endorsements, designed to provide more comprehensive protection to the expanding long term care healthcare sector.The new endorsements include: media event...
Mar 5 2015 // An analysis by the San Antonio Fire Department says the arrival of specialized resources to a December fire that killed five residents of a senior living facility near San Antonio, Texas, was delayed because responders...
Feb 24 2015 // The former owner of an Oklahoma City nursing home must pay a woman’s family more than $1 million in damages after staff were caught abusing the woman on camera.A jury recently awarded the three daughters of...
Jan 23 2015 // The graying of America could be a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs, including young insurance producers.As the nation’s population continues to gray, the people who work in the many businesses and...
Jan 8 2015 // More than 20 residents at a senior-living complex where a deadly fire occurred have jointly filed a negligence lawsuit in Bexar County against the management company and its owners. The plaintiffs are seeking at least $1...