University of Michigan Poll Says Nursing Homes Lack Flu Prevention Plans A new poll sponsored by AARP and Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan, suggests that nursing homes and other long-term care facilities should be doing more to keep their staff and patients safe from influenza, more commonly referred to as the flu. This season, flu cases […]
Key Points of This Article: An increasing elderly population of nearly 40,000 residents has led to more instances of Michigan nursing home negligence and abuse related to falls, overmedication, physical and verbal attacks, malnutrition, and tragic failures to provide quality care caused by understaffed workforces. About a third of the deaths attributed to coronavirus in Michigan […]
Synopsis Not until now was a list of 400 underperforming nursing homes, which require extensive oversight by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) as a Special Focus Facility, been made available for public review. The list of troubled homes was previously kept quiet by CMS officials for nearly twenty years until two U. S. […]
Key Points of This Article: COVID-19 continues to dangerously spread through close human contact inside Michigan’s long-term care facilities, even from individuals who may be innocently visiting a resident and appear to be asymptomatic. If you want to visit with your loved one inside a nursing home this holiday season or take them out of […]
Key Points of This Article: An increasing elderly population has led to a larger nursing home population in Michigan of more than 34,000 residents, and with it has come more instances of nursing home negligence and abuse. Despite oversight by various governmental agencies, there are 5 million cases of nursing home residents who have been […]
Synopsis About one in five incidences of elder abuse or neglect are not being reported, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). Overworked nurses and undertrained health care workers such as aides are most likely to fail in identifying possible incidents of abuse or reporting the dangerous neglect […]
UNDERSTANDING THE NEED TO PROTECT AND FIGHT AGAINST ELDER ABUSE AND NEGLECT. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP. 2016 gave us too many horrific stories of elder abuse and caregiver neglect across the state. We read about the elderly Alzheimer’s patient who begged her children to remove her from a Gaines Township assisted living facility, […]
Key Points of This Article: The National Center of Elder Abuse reports as many as 5 million people are affected by elder abuse per year, and more than 95 percent of those incidents go unreported. During the holiday season, Michigan’s skilled nursing facilities are understaffed, and health care workers such as nurses and aides will be […]
Michigan Nursing Home Abuse Laws Rank Well – Yet Neglect Still Happens An alarming statistic: The National Center on Elder Abuse reports more than 95 percent of elder abuse cases go unreported every year. And even though Michigan recently ranked No. 4 (Wallethub, 2018) for having some of the best elder abuse protections in the […]
Michigan Nursing Homes Face 3 Growing Problems Although Michigan does have some nursing home facilities that approach resident care with the most tender touch there are still many who are failing our most vulnerable family member and friends. Nursing home abuse and neglect happens too often and when it does, family members should hold health […]
