Sentences with phrase «nursing home industry»
With an aging population adding pressure to an already broken nursing home industry, the inevitable result will be an increase in the number of abuse and neglect cases running through the court system.
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That's a big win for the nursing home industry, which requested relief from what it called burdensome fines and claimed was holding back efforts to run better facilities.
However, since then, the nursing home industry has been successful in preventing the ultimate passage and enforcement of that rule.
The National Citizens» Coalition for Nursing Home Reform calls the issue of malnutrition, weight loss and dehydration within the nursing home industry «one of the largest, silent epidemics in this country.»
Arbitration has long been another way for the nursing home industry to reduce costs.
Arbitration is a benefit to the nursing home industry because the cost of litigating cases in arbitration is much less than might be in a state court.
The nursing home industry has long preferred arbitration instead of lawsuits that residents raise for neglect and abuse.
Caps would benefit nursing homes, but harm victims — yet most of the press spins this issue as if it is the lawsuits that are preventing the nursing home industry from providing proper care for the elderly.
In 2006, state and federal financing of the nursing home industry totaled $ 75 billion.
Last year, the New York Times wrote an investigative report on the nursing home industry and found that the corporations often shield themselves from litigation by setting up a network of dummy companies preventing victims from receiving compensation.
«These legislators are putting a campaign contribution over someone's life,» referring to the millions of dollars the nursing home industry has spent over the last decade to lobby the state legislature.
And even as nursing staff lose hours and pay, the top managers in the nursing home industry are earning very high salaries.
The nursing home industry devotes an inordinate amount of time trying to weaken their accountability and get out of compensating the families of patients, which their institutions abuse and neglect.
Under the leadership Governor Scott Walker and with the express assistance of that nasty gang - «o - corporations, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the nursing home industry authored a bunch of provisions to make it difficult or impossible for families to sue on behalf of their abused or neglected (i.e., dead or injured) relative.
In 1974, one of his cases involved a pre-grand jury investigation of the nursing home industry in Maryland.
In the late 1990s, a double dose of trouble nearly sunk the nursing home industry.
The nursing home industry suffered a startling setback July 29 when the federal government announced that Medicare rates will be slashed by 11.1 % starting Oct. 1...
According to a white paper released earlier this year by Standard & Poor's, certain nursing facilities will struggle with contractual escalations in rents, because the nursing home industry will face headwinds from the ongoing shift of patients.