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2. Patient and mortuary neglect - Wikipedia

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   Patient neglect concerns people in hospitals, in nursing homes, or being cared for in home. Usually in nursing homes or home-assisted living, neglect would consist of patients being left lying in their own urine and/or feces, which could, in turn, possibly attract flesh flies and lead to maggot infestation.

3. Nursing home residents' rights - Wikipedia

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   Nursing home residents' rights are the legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home. [1] Legislation exists in various jurisdictions to protect such rights. An early example of a statute protecting such rights is Florida statute 400.022, enacted in 1980, and commonly known as the Residents' Rights Act.

4. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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   The violations led to $45,000 in fines. Nursing homes differ from hospices in that care is provided exclusively in an institutional facility. There is also no requirement that a patient be in declining health, with less than six months to live. Nursing homes serve roughly three times as many patients in a year as hospices do.

5. Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act - Wikipedia

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   The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) of 1980 is a United States federal law [1] intended to protect the rights of people in state or local correctional facilities, nursing homes, mental health facilities, group homes and institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

6. ‘A rude awakening’: Scarecrow laws threaten to make middle ...

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   Statistics compiled by the National Council on Aging show a wide variance of median monthly nursing home costs — from a low of $5,125 in Texas to an astounding $31,512 in Alaska. Consider that ...

7. Patient abuse - Wikipedia

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   Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals, [4] nursing homes, [5] clinics [6] and during home-based care. [7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed [8]: 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases.

8. Iowa, 19 other states sue feds to block staffing mandates for ...

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   The state of Iowa, where nursing homes have compiled one of the nation’s worst records for staffing-level violations, has joined 19 other states in suing the Biden administration to block the ...

9. New owner of 29 Iowa nursing homes has history of regulatory ...

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   A private equity firm that recently purchased 29 Iowa nursing homes has been hit with 17 times as many federal fines for poor quality care as the homes’ previous owner, according to federal data.