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View Post: East Haven Nursing Home In Bronx (NYC) Receives Lowest Rating From ...
4 Nov 2009 by Thomas Gallivan  
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have given East Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in the Bronx, NY its lowest rating (one out of five stars) due to below average findings in three categories: 1) health inspections, ...
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View Post: Senators to meet in Chicago on nursing home safety - Chicago ...
4 Nov 2009
State senators will hold a hearing Thursday in Chicago to examine ways to improve safety at nursing homes, where a high number of felons with mental illness has led to reports of assaults, rape and even murder. ...
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View Post: Advance Indiana: Will Daniels' Medicaid Cuts Include HHC's Nursing ...
6 Nov 2009 by Advance Indiana  
It sure would feel like some kind of justice if the HHC's nursing homes would take a reduction in the Medicaid provider rate, to at least equalize them with other nursing homes. How do you stand on this request, Governor Daniels? ...
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View Post: JFActivist: Disability Coalition Supports Health Reform that ...
4 hours ago by JFA Moderator  
The disability community has been advocating for over twenty years for the equitable choice to receive support services in their own homes and communities rather than nursing homes or other institutions. We believe this is a civil ...
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View Post: Nursing home pharmacy to pay $112M to settle fraud allegations ...
4 Nov 2009 by Chelsey Ledue  
WASHINGTON – The United State's largest nursing home pharmacy, Omnicare, Inc., of Covington, Ky., will pay $98 million to settle allegations that the company ran several kickback schemes, according to the Justice Department. ...
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View Post: Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: One Nursing Home Patient ...
6 Nov 2009
A scary result of the Omincare drug kickback case is how vulnerable elderly people in nursing homes are to schemes in which drug companies allegedly induce pharmacies to prescribe drugs they otherwise would not. One patient cited by the ...
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