All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 22 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear California nursing home operator Glenhaven Healthcare’s bid to avoid a lawsuit filed in state court over the COVID-19 death of a resident, turning away the...
Sep 9 2022 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Vermont nursing home over allegations that it allowed patients to racially abuse Black staff members.The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in...
Sep 5 2022 // The insurance market for senior care and housing facilities has emerged from the volatile period of the pandemic and is again responsive and competitive. Premiums that were going up considerably are moderating in some...
Jul 11 2022 // A Pittsburgh nursing home has been barred from relying upon an arbitration agreement to settle a family’s wrongful death complaint where the arbitration papers had been signed by the deceased woman when she was...
Jul 7 2022 // Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, has made a campaign staple out of the allegation that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing...
Jun 27 2022 // CoreLogic Names Dodd CEOPatrick Dodd has been appointed president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic, the global property information, analytics and data company. Dodd was named interim chief executive officer in...
Jun 24 2022 // The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges...
Jun 7 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings launched of a new skilled nursing facilities program, created by Promont Insurance Advisors, a subsidiary specializing in program management in the healthcare industry. Promont Skilled Nursing will...
Jun 6 2022 // The Michigan Supreme Court last week reinstated a lawsuit against a senior living center where an 89-year-old woman was locked out in cold weather and died a few weeks later.In a 4-2 order, the court said Independence...
May 4 2022 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for...
Apr 6 2022 // Heart of CarDon, a Bloomington, Indiana-based senior living community, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Apr 1 2022 // Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s says Kansas won’t enforce a federal mandate that nursing home workers get vaccinated against COVID-19, acknowledging Wednesday that it conflicts with an anti-mandate state law she...
Mar 17 2022 // Maine’s human rights panel has ruled in favor of a transgender woman who complained that she was discriminated against when she was denied a room by an assisted living facility.The Maine Human Rights Commission voted...
Jan 18 2022 // COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members...
Nov 17 2021 // Eight residents of a nursing home in Connecticut have died during a coronavirus outbreak while 89 residents and employees have tested positive for the disease, nursing home officials say.The outbreak at the Geer Nursing...
Nov 15 2021 // There’s a storm warning. It might be a hurricane, a tornado, a derecho, or a microburst. It doesn’t matter, they all have one similar characteristic, damaging winds. After the storm passes, whether a building...
Oct 18 2021 // A new ordinance being proposed in New Orleans is designed to protect residents at apartment complexes for seniors during disasters like Hurricane Ida, which wiped out power to the city and stranded hundreds of people in...
Sep 20 2021 // The Justice Department announced that the developer and owners of eight senior living complexes in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee have agreed to pay $450,000 to settle claims that they violated the...
Sep 17 2021 // The former owner of a Richmond, Virginia, assisted living facility pleaded guilty to health care fraud after spending more than $800,000 meant for residents’ care on travel, gambling expenses and personal debts,...
Sep 13 2021 // Among the many tragic stories in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida are the deaths of seven Louisiana nursing home residents who were evacuated to a warehouse where health inspectors say conditions quickly became unsafe once...