Acting State Comptroller Kevin Walsh criticized this decision, saying it protects underperforming facilities at the expense of vulnerable residents. While the Health Care Association of New Jersey ...

Feb. 18--State lawmakers are trying to crack down on bad nursing homes after data has shown that the state government gives many troubled facilities a free pass each year. In fiscal 2015, state ...

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse’s worst nursing home provided dangerous and substandard care that left dozens of residents at risk of serious harm or death this summer, state health inspectors wrote in a ...

Louisiana’s lawmakers continue to let us down. But our organization, Patient Rights Advocacy Forum, is not backing down anytime soon. The Louisiana Legislature has recently revived the “Bob Dean ...

Sometimes, it takes a lawsuit to punish a bad nursing home. But state lawmakers may rein in the lawyers by making it tougher to sue. In June 2001, Katherine Johnson, 72, was found unconscious at her ...

The pain in Sharon Cornell’s abdomen wasn’t going away, and her caretakers weren’t listening. She kept telling staff members at Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation of Clarkston that she ...

There are about 15,000 nursing homes in the U.S., and dozens close every year. While experts believe there was likely an uptick in closures during the pandemic, experts think COVID-19 aid to the ...

They were supposed to be the fixers. Efraim Steif and Uri Koenig bought the Van Duyn nursing home from Onondaga County in 2012, riding high after turning around a similarly troubled nursing home on ...

South Jersey nursing home execs pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars while residents suffered from chronic understaffing, a ...

Buried in 374 pages of the state budget passed June 30 is a jargon-filled passage dealing with Medicaid payments to nursing homes that seems wonkish and innocuous. But acting State Comptroller Kevin ...