Lack of SNF beds leads to hospital lawsuit against patients refusing discharge
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 21, 2023
A Catholic hospital system is suing patients who refused to leave its hospitals while awaiting post-acute placements, saying their refusal to be discharged amounted to trespassing.
State News – October 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
Gov. Tim Walz (D) (pictured) took a budget victory lap at a nursing home late this summer, allowing the operator to ask for continued and more robust support for the sector.
35-facility nursing home chain files for bankruptcy
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 19, 2023
A California company that operates 35 nursing homes in two states has filed for bankruptcy, making more real frequent warnings that financial pressure will soon lead to broad collapses across the sector.
CA Supreme Court backs employers in ‘take-home’ COVID case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2023
Nursing homes and other employers cannot be held legally or financially responsible for preventing the spread of COVID-19 from their employees to their household members, the California Supreme Court has...
Employer protections in spotlight as court considers ‘take-home’ COVID liability
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 08, 2023
Can an employer be held accountable for a spouse made deathly ill by the case of COVID-19 a loved one brought home from work?
Judge slaps injunction on Mariner Health over staffing, sex assault allegations
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jan 12, 2023
A California judge has ordered a chain of nursing homes in California to staff up to state-required levels and follow state and federal discharge rules.
Court: Refusal to readmit patient after hospital psych evaluation is an ‘involuntary transfer’
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jan 10, 2023
A California Superior Court judge ruled that a state nursing home illegally evicted a resident by refusing to re-admit a woman who had been transferred to a hospital for a psychological evaluation following...
Also in the News for Monday, Nov. 28, 2022
By
Joe Bush
Nov 28, 2022
Nursing home ‘SWAT’ team sent to troubled state-run facility … HRSA extends PRF reporting deadline … SNF that opened during pandemic registers zero COVID deaths … Hospital system that closed...
CMS allows troubled California facility to keep residents, restart Medicare, Medicaid participation
By
Joe Bush
Oct 14, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services granted a huge and problem-plagued nursing home in San Francisco a new lifeline this week.
Also in the News for Wednesday, Sept. 21
By
Joe Bush
Sep 21, 2022
Shooting threat at NY nursing home….CA state grant to fund an earn-and-learn apprenticeship model…NJ legislature advances bill to protect LTC residents from neglect, isolation