Schenk Nursing Home Abuse Law opened its 2025 Fighting the Nursing Shortage Scholarship to nursing students who are intent on addressing the sudden employee fluctuations in the healthcare industry. This scholarship encourages nursing students to address the challenges in their field of choice while recommending steps to stabilize the field over time. This year, the …
Nursing homes must take reasonable efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including coronavirus. If a facility breaches that duty, and a resident contracts coronavirus as a result, then that resident’s family may bring a lawsuit against the facility. An experienced nursing home lawyer can determine whether coronavirus in your loved one’s facility was …
Coronavirus laws for nursing homes are a stricter extension of preexisting infection control protocols required of all facilities. Federal and State laws have long required nursing homes implement infection prevention and control policies. As coronavirus spreads, those regulations are now becoming more strict to contain its impact. Nursing homes must take heightened precautions to protect …
Financial abuse may be rapidly becoming the most prevalent form of elder abuse taking place. 1 in 20 elders have reported some form of financial exploitation occurring recently. This may be vastly different than the actual number of elders experiencing financial abuse – only 1 in every 44 cases are reported. The great majority of …
Previously, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services allowed nursing homes to self-report how many registered nurses they had on staff. They would typically only verify these numbers through payroll data submitted in the weeks prior to an inspection. However, the agency recently unveiled a new way of rating nursing homes that has affected some …
Those who have served our country deserve the best of care, particularly those who are disabled and are in the later years of their lives. The Veteran’s Administration provides care for many of these people who reside in VA nursing homes across the country. When investigative articles in USA Today and the Boston Globe called …
Opioids are a class of drugs that are typically prescribed to relieve pain. These drugs come with names like Vicodin, Oxycodone, Oxycontin, and Fentanyl patches. While these drugs may be needed for a short time to relieve pain from an injury or surgery, they can be highly addictive. Overprescribing them is thought to be a …
Nursing homes are being increasingly called upon to provide care to older adults who are suffering from conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In many of these facilities, the residents reside in specialized wings or sections of the facility that are equipped to alert staff members when residents attempt to leave the facility. The residents …
There are state agencies that are charged with investigating reports that someone is suffering from elder abuse and neglect. In some states, the Department of Health and Human Services or its equivalent are charged with this. For nursing homes that receive federal funds from Medicare or Medicaid, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) provides a number of protections in the workplace to prevent discrimination against employers by coworkers and bosses. One of these protections is the protection against discrimination based on religion. This prevents the discrimination of employees by an employer based on their religion in regards to hiring, firing, pay, …
