$5.5 Million Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit against a New York Nursing Home for Short-Staffing
A class-action lawsuit was filed against a New York nursing home in 2019 for being unsafe, understaffed, and negligent in its care of residents. In…
Appeals court rules in favor of Iowa nurse accused of abusing psychiatric patient
A Cedar Rapids nurse did not commit elder abuse, a state appellate court ruled last month, saying a state regulator who brought the allegations failed…
Neurosurgeon and Two Affiliated Companies Agree to Pay $4.4 Million to Settle Healthcare Fraud Allegations
Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, MD of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, have agreed…
Medical Center in Brooklyn Agrees to Settle Claims of Employment Discrimination by US Army Reservist
Mark J. Lesko, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced a settlement with Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn to resolve…
Miami-Based CareCloud Health, Inc. Agrees to Pay $3.8 Million to Resolve Allegations that it Paid Illegal Kickbacks
CareCloud Health, Inc. f/k/a CareCloud Corporation (CareCloud), a Miami-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software products and related services, has agreed to pay $3,806,966.70…
COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes Continue to Fall
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reports that since December 2020, the US has fully vaccinated over 1.4 million residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) and…
Elderly Couple Use ‘Morse Code’ to Escape Assisted Living Facility
An elderly couple in Tennessee briefly escaped from a secure memory care unit at an assisted living facility earlier this year after cracking the code…
RI House Panel Approves Compromise Proposal in Nursing Home Staffing Fight
A proposed compromise in the politically charged, union-driven fight for minimum staffing mandates at Rhode Island nursing homes is headed to the Rhode Island House…
Contract Tracing Breach Impacts Private Info of 72K People
Employees of a vendor paid to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing in Pennsylvania may have compromised the private information of at least 72,000 people, including their…
Former PA Nursing Home Billing Specialist Charged with Stealing More Than $176K
A former billing specialist for a Pennsylvania nursing home is accused of stealing more than $176,000 from the Erie County-owned facility over nearly a year.