Nursing Homes

It is hard to admit when you cannot take care of an elderly or disabled member of the family. With work schedules and all of the other demands of life, you realize you’re just not equipped to provide the level of care that’s needed. Once you’ve made the tough decision to seek out a nursing…

Over the past five months, the U.S. government has given hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid to companies across the country. Much of the assistance was given to the public health sector, but not all healthcare facilities have acted with integrity when it comes to pandemic-related funding. In fact, some nursing home facilities…

Your loved ones are important to you. It’s why the decision to put them into a nursing home is such a heartbreaking one. You don’t want them to feel the discomfort of having to leave their home, but at the same time you struggle with the reality that you know you can’t give them the…

We are living in uncertain times. Nobody could have imagined how quickly or severely our lives would be uprooted due to the global Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. However, the danger to nursing home residents across the United States – and particularly in Georgia – is quite real, as the number of residents testing positive, falling ill…

When you make the heart wrenching decision to place your loved into a nursing home, you do so expecting that he or she will receive compassion and the highest level of care possible. While you may have your loved one’s best interest at heart, sometimes the people who are being entrusted to extend your family…

In March of 2017, CNN published a disturbing report about sexual abuse in nursing homes. The investigatory piece chronicled years of alleged and reported abuse by a man named George Kpingbah, a 76-year-old nursing assistant at a Minneapolis nursing home. In the course of their overall research, CNN discovered that “More than 16,000 complaints of…

A recent investigation by CNN highlights the prevalence of sexual abuse within our country’s nursing homes and the failure of responsible officials to adequately address this shocking issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were approximately 15,600 nursing homes nationwide in 2014. Collectively, these homes provided about 1.7 million beds to elderly residents.…

Millions of elderly individuals reside in nursing homes across the country. Oftentimes, family members do not have the resources to adequately care for the older family members and must place them in the care of a nursing home. It should be expected that these individuals would be treated with the utmost respect and care in…