On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new final rule requiring minimum staffing levels…
On April 1, 2024, the Washington Post published an article titled "Algorithms guide senior home staffing. Managers say care is…
In February 2024, Justice in Aging released a new report based on California’s “performance measure” data from the state’s Medicaid…
For many years, Genworth has produced a Cost of Care Survey tracking the cost of long-term care in America. According…
In Jones v. Life Care Centers of America (Tenn .Ct. Appeals 2023), a cognitively impaired resident was assisted in the…
Ideally, health care providers do the right thing. Good Care is provided. There is no negligence. But what if they…
Last year we reported that Talevski v. Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC) was headed to the Supreme…
Medicare includes a nursing home benefit of up to 100 days following a qualifying hospital stay. The Medicare rehabilitation benefit…
On June 5, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) amended 42 C.F.R. § 483.80 (infection control) and…
The following is a mishmash of information on various Elder Law, Special Needs Law, and Estate Planning issues. It also…