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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Beneath The Large Profits At A Pennsylvania Nursing Home Lay Rampant Neglect
The Philadelphia Inquirer: St. Francis Nursing Home Made Sky-High Profits. Then It Was Sanctioned For Neglect
St. Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare went from roughly break-even in the two full years before Gros bought it to being the second-most profitable nursing home in the Philadelphia region last year. Then, its quality of care tanked. Last September, inspectors found rampant neglect at the Darby facility and revoked its license, a step taken only in extreme cases. (Brubaker, 6/12)
Miami Herald: Florida Judge Rules For Nursing Home Where 12 Died After Irma
The state cannot substantially redact or charge substantial fees for death certificates requested by a Broward County nursing home where several died after Hurricane Irma, a Leon County circuit judge ruled Tuesday. The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which has been embroiled in legal disputes since a dozen residents died there after the storm knocked out power to its air conditioning, had requested death records across the state for Sept. 9 through Sept. 16 — a weeklong period that included Irma. (Koh, 6/12)
And in other news —
Kaiser Health News: Medicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients
“Oh my God, we dropped her!” Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her right side where her hip had recently been replaced. She cried out in pain. A hospital clinician later discovered her hip was dislocated. That was not the only injury Snipes, then 61, said she suffered in 2011 at Richmond Pines Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Hamlet, N.C. Nurses allegedly had been injecting her twice a day with a potent blood thinner despite written instructions to stop. (Rau, 6/13)
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