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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. 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.

4. 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.

5. Winkler County nurse whistleblower case - Wikipedia

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   According to the Texas Nurses Association, "No one ever imagined that a nurse would be criminally prosecuted for reporting a patient care concern to a licensing agency." [1] After the Mitchell case, protection from prosecution was incorporated into Texas whistleblower laws. The TMB stopped investigating anonymous complaints about physicians in ...

6. 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 ...

7. Illinois quick hits: Nursing home violations announced ...

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   Nursing home violations announced The Illinois Department of Public Health announced that it has posted the 2024 Third Quarter Report of Nursing Home Violations. Four facilities, two in Chicago ...

8. Texas Advance Directives Act - Wikipedia

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   HB 3074 is the first reform effort to garner universal support from advocacy groups with 4 joint authors and 81 co-authors in the House of Representatives. It was unopposed in the House and Senate and was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott. It was the first reform to the Texas Advance Directives Act since 2003. [13]

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.