Eight residents died in one Florida nursing home following Hurricane Irma. The cause of the deaths was excessive heat in the nursing home, that did not have a working generator to provide air conditioning. This tragedy has shone a light on nursing home emergency preparedness requirements. Many were astonished to Read More…
Last year’s victory for the rights of nursing home patients to avoid arbitration was short lived. Last November, CMS changed its regulations to prohibit nursing homes from using “pre-dispute arbitration clauses” – contracts requiring a patient to submit to arbitration to resolve complaints as a condition for admission to the Read More…
