Hope Center for HIV and Nursing Care has received 21 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on October 1, 2022. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the […]
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St. Margaret’s Center: Nursing Home Cited for Accident, Understaffing
St. Margaret’s Center received 50 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 23, 2022. The Albany nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 11 surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home […]
Medford Multicare Center: Nursing Home Cited for Medication Errors
Medford Multicare Center for Living received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 6, 2022. The Medford nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 9 inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care: Infection Citation
Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care received 28 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 29, 2022. The Uniondale nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 13 inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: […]
Report: Nursing Home Staffing Levels Keep Falling
Nursing home staffing levels suffered nearly an eight percent decline from the first to third quarters of 2021, according to an analysis by the Long-Term Community Care Coalition. According to the organization’s findings, US nursing homes had an average of 3.62 total nurse staff hours per resident day and 0.63 Registered Nurse HPRD. Those figures […]
St. Patrick’s Home Cited for Abuse, Fall
St. Patricks Home has received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 25, 2022. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of seven surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
NY Nursing Home Workers Call for Stricter Enforcement of Staffing Law
A new law in New York requires nursing homes to provide residents with 3.5 hours of direct nursing care per resident day. Though this law recently went into effect, a recent NPR report found, the state’s nursing homes are still falling short of the newly required threshold. “Of the 21 Western New York nursing homes […]
Nursing Homes With Questionable Records Seek to Block Reform in New York
A recent article in The Prospect details the “extraordinary” lawsuit filed by hundreds of New York nursing homes against the state health commissioner in an effort to block a new law mandating that nursing homes “spend a majority of their revenue on patient care.” As The Prospect explains, the lawsuit alleges that the law unconstitutionally […]
The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Guilderland: Medication Errors
The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Guilderland has received 88 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 29, 2022. The recipient of $78,000 in fines since 2015, the facility was placed on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ […]
As Omicron Sweeps Through Nursing Homes, So Do Staffing Issues
The omicron wave has caused an unprecedented staffing crisis in New York nationwide, according to a recent report by NPR. With cases spiking in mid-January, at least 40,000 nursing home residents received positive tests during the week ending January 14th, “almost a 10-fold rise since November.” Employee cases, meanwhile, reached “more than 67,000 cases” the […]
New York Takes Measures to Stop Nursing Home Covid-19 Surge
A new Covid-19 surge fueled by the omicron variant is spreading through New York nursing homes, even among those with fully vaccinated residents, according to a new report by Lohud. Data provided by state authorities showed that in the week ending on January 4th, there were almost 4,900 reported Covid cases in the state’s nursing […]
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center Cited for Pressure Ulcers, Staffing
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center received 77 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 7, 2022. The facility was recently placed on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ list of “Special Focus Facilities” candidates, meaning it has a record […]
Warren Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing: Pressure Ulcer Citation
Warren Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 73 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 7, 2022. The facility has additionally received three fines totaling $14,000 since 2011, the most recent being a $10,000 fine issued in December […]
New York Nursing Homes Sue to Block Staffing Requirements
Nursing home operators have filed a federal lawsuit attempting to block a New York law mandating certain staffing requirements. The law, passed last year and set to go into effect this year, would require nursing homes in the state to “to spend at least 70% of their revenue on direct resident care, and at least […]
NYC Nurses Protest Staffing Shortages
New York City’s nurses have taken to the streets to bring attention to staffing shortages in the city’s hospitals. According to a November 17 report by NBC New York, at least 100 nurses gathered at New York-Presbyterian Hospital earlier this month to highlight hospital staffing shortages that have led to “long hours and the inability […]
Nursing Home Staffing Levels Fall in Q2 2021: Report
Nursing home staffing levels declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to an analysis by the Long Term Community Care Coalition. A report published by the LTCCC on November 16th found that nursing home staffing levels fell almost 5% from the first quarter of 2021, averaging 3.75 total nurse staff hours per resident day […]
Do Regulators Let Nursing Home Understaffing Slide?
A new report by the Long-Term Community Care Coalition has found that while insufficient staffing is a widespread problem in nursing homes, state nursing home surveyors rarely issue citations for it. The report, titled “Broken Promises,” analyzes nursing home citations from 2018 until 2020.
Nursing Home Understaffing Worsens over Covid-19 Pandemic
Plummeting staffing levels have devastated the nursing home industry, according to an Associated Press analysis which found that one-third of US facilities have “fewer nurses and aides than before the Covid-19 pandemic.” One expert described the stark decline in staffing levels as “appalling.”
Bombshell Report: “Phony” Diagnoses Behind Nursing Home Druggings
Nursing homes are over-diagnosing patients with schizophrenia in order to conceal the high rates at which they’re prescribing antipsychotic medications, according to a recent report by the New York Times. Schizophrenia diagnoses among nursing home residents have “soared” as much as 70% since the federal government started making public disclosures of antipsychotic drug prescriptions in […]
Report: Nursing Home Understaffing Persists in Q1 2021
The majority of nursing homes in the United States failed to meet minimum care staff thresholds in the first quarter of 2021, according to an analysis by the Long Term Community Care Coalition. A federal study published in 2001 established that minimum threshold as 4.10 total care staff hours per resident day (HRPD) and 0.75 […]
New York Gov. Cuomo Signs Nursing Home Staffing Law
Legislation signed this month by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will establish new staffing mandates for nursing homes and hospitals in the state. Under the new law, which will take effect in January 2022, nursing homes will be required to “meet a minimum daily average of 3 1/2 hours of nursing care per resident,” according […]
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center Cited for Neglect, Medication Errors
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center received 60 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 11, 2021. The facility has also been the subject of fines totaling $18,000 since 2011. The Campbell Hall nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of […]
Data Shows Low Nursing Home Staffing Levels in Q4 2020
Last week the Long Term Community Care Coalition published fourth-quarter 2020 staffing data for every nursing home in the United States. Noting that staffing levels in nursing homes “have played a critical role in determining the health outcomes of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the LTCCC argues that nursing homes with adequate staffing […]
Lawmakers Turn Their Gaze Toward Nursing Home Spending
A recent column in the Washington Post argued that the Covid-19 pandemic revealed dire problems in nursing home facilities across the country. The column’s author, Syracuse University law professor Nina Kohn, wrote that these systemic problems, which include understaffing and poor quality of care for nursing home residents, stem in part from “owners who place […]
New York’s Looming Legislative Battle Over Nursing Home Staffing
A new report in Gothamist examines the debate over a proposed state law setting requirements for staffing levels in New York nursing homes. The Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, which has previously passed the New York Assembly but has never been approved by the full state legislature, would create minimum staffing levels in the […]
