With state funding for adult day care slated to end , county officials are preparing for the worst: increases in 9-1-1 calls, emergency room visits, nursing home placements and investigations for abuse and neglect. Demand for mental health services and in-home care also is expected to rise. Officials say the scale of the coming cuts is unprecedented. Roughly 23,000 seniors and low-income adults with mental and physical impairments in Los Angeles County alone will be forced to either pay out of pocket, seek other care or do without.
With state funding for adult day care slated to end in December, county officials are preparing for the worst: increases in 9-1-1 calls, emergency room visits, nursing home placements and investigations for abuse and neglect. Demand for mental health services and in-home care also is expected to rise.
We must never lose sight of the fact that nursing homes are more than just long-term care facilities," [Eliot Spitzer] told a Manhattan press conference. "The Unit will work with the state Department of Health ombudsman programs, community groups across the Empire State, and the nursing home industry," Spitzer said. Recent cases prosecuted by the Patient Unit Section and by MFCU attorneys across the state demonstrate that victims of nursing home abuse and neglect are often elderly and especially vulnerable, according to Spitzer.
With state funding for adult day care slated to end , county officials are preparing for the worst: increases in 9-1-1 calls, emergency room visits, nursing home placements and investigations for abuse and neglect. Demand for mental health services and in-home care also are expected to rise. Officials say the scale of the coming cuts is unprecedented. Roughly 23,000 seniors and low-income adults with mental and physical impairments in Los Angeles County alone will be forced to either pay out of pocket, seek other care or do without.
A daughter couldn't sue the state medical examiner when she wasn't informed that her mother's brain was destroyed as medical waste following an autopsy, the 6th Circuit has ruled. An 88-year-old woman who was a resident of a nursing home died. Her daughter suspected abuse or neglect and the local police department requested that an autopsy be performed. The daughter did not object.
With state funding for adult day care slated to end , county officials are preparing for the worst: increases in 9-1-1 calls, emergency room visits, nursing home placements and investigations for abuse and neglect. Demand for mental health services and in-home care also are expected to rise. Officials say the scale of the coming cuts is unprecedented. Roughly 23,000 seniors and low-income adults with mental and physical impairments in Los Angeles County alone will be forced to either pay out of pocket, seek other care or do without.
We will make sure Illinois' nursing homes offer a safe haven for residents, many of whom are among our most vulnerable and needy," [Pat Quinn] told me Defender. "Our seniors have made sacrifices we can never repay tfiem for so the least we can do is make sure they are safe during their golden years in life. "The paper trail makes it clear that Black nursing home residents in Chicago have fallen victim to a systemic failure," she said. "For far too long, nursing home operators and owners have been allowed to simply pay minimal fines for lack of care. "It's time to change how we treat nursing home abuse, neglect and bias in Illinois and rewrite the policies that allow these patterns to continue." "It was much cheaper to have him at the South Shore Nursing and Rehab Center than somewhere...
* "If one of a married couple is sick and one is healthy," says [Vincent N. Macri], "we transfer the house into the name of the healthy spouse. Medicaid doesn't penalize that and a lien can't be placed on the house to pay Medicaid bills. Elder law attorneys deal with a lot of issues, including disability planning, financial exploitation, guardianship matters and nursing home problems such as abuse and neglect, says William P. Isele of Princetonbased Archer & Greiner.
A recent $90.5 million jury verdict against a local nursing home has brought a new spotlight on a 2003 law to limit medical liability damages and promises to propel what could be a lengthy debate that ends up in the state Supreme Court. Heartland Nursing Home and its parent company, ManorCare Inc., have asked a circuit judge to review a $90.5 million verdict against it in an abuse and neglect case.
The initiative capping medical malpractice awards would limit the rights of the vulnerable elderly and their ability to obtain fair compensation if they are victims of nursing home abuse or neglect, the measure's opponents claimed Wednesday at a Vancouver news conference. Not so, said proponents of Initiative 330, on the Nov. 8 ballot. They contend that the biggest threat to seniors is the exodus of Washington physicians who can't afford the state's high medical malpractice insurance premiums.
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