Texas Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Adulterating Drug Used in Cataract Surgeries
A Texas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of adulterating a drug that was used in cataract surgeries. According to court documents, Jack Randall…
US Attorney’s Office presents Medicolegal Symposium to discuss case against convicted VA hospital murderer
The US Attorney’s Office, Northern District of West Virginia, is teaming up with Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and West…
New Law Will Require NY Nursing Homes to Display Rating
A bill that requires nursing homes in New York to prominently display their most recent rating from federal officials was signed into law last week…
CDC Kicks Off 2021–2022 Flu Vaccination Campaign
On October 7, 2021 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Foundation for Infectious Disease (NFID) kicked off the 2021–2022 flu…
Esther’s Law, which would allow cameras in nursing home rooms, gains traction in Ohio
About 10 years ago, Steve Piskor placed a hidden camera in an air purifier at his mother’s nursing home room in Cleveland and did not…
US DOL Finds Home Care Services Provider Failed to Pay Workers Overtime
Twenty-nine workers who offer home care services to elderly and terminally ill clients were shortchanged by their Dallas employer’s failure to pay them overtime wages…
Physician Agrees to Pay $640,000 to Resolve Allegations of Anti-Kickback Violations
Dr. Llewelyn Simon, an internal medicine physician from Monroe, Louisiana, has agreed to pay the United States $640,000 to resolve allegations that he accepted payments…
New Jersey’s Governor Expands Age Discrimination by Employers Law
On October 5, 2021,the Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, signed a bill into law that expands the scope of Law Against Discrimination (LAD). The…
Fire Causes Evacuation at Kentucky Nursing Home
Seven residents and staff members of a Kentucky nursing home that caught fire Sunday were taken to a hospital with injuries.
State fines California care home where worker was caught on video hitting elderly resident
California regulators have substantiated a complaint about a Folsom senior living center where a worker was secretly recorded on video striking a 90-year-old resident with…