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  • Pennsylvania Health Department Doubled Nursing Home Fines to $2.3M in 2018
    Pennsylvania Health Department Doubled Nursing Home Fines to $2.3M in 2018
    Pennsylvania's nursing home facilities have been in the news for years and the reports have not been positive. In 2015, Pennsylvania made history when the state attorney general sued the Golden Living nursing home chain for among other things, failing to provide basic care for nursing home residents. The lawsuit prompted Golden Living to transfer its 36 Pennsylvania nursing home...
  • How Nursing Homes Make Profit Off Of Abuse
    How Nursing Homes Make Profit Off Of Abuse
    It is something no one really talks about, but as children, one didn't think about how we would be taking care of our parents one day. Thankfully medicine is getting better and helping people live longer, but getting older does have its challenges. Sometimes when our loved ones get older, they get older in places that are not close to...
  • Shocking Nursing Home Abuse Case
    Shocking Nursing Home Abuse Case
    We would not usually bring you a case so far from our coverage area, but this story has gripped the nation recently and it highlights some things we have been discussing for a while. When a woman in an Arizona long-term care facility went into labor on December 29, the nursing home staff present did not even know she was...
  • Pennsylvania Has Nursing Home Oversight Problems
    Pennsylvania Has Nursing Home Oversight Problems
    We just read an editorial that highlights the importance of strong oversight of nursing homes. The article follows that case of an Arkansas-based nursing home company that at one time had $3 billion in revenue and operated many nursing homes here in Pennsylvania. They have since faced litigation for violations ranging from, “poor training, medication errors, skeletal staffing, and even...
  • Not So Golden Living at the Golden Living Nursing Homes
    Not So Golden Living at the Golden Living Nursing Homes
    You may have heard that the Pennsylvania Attorney General's lawsuit against the Golden Living Nursing Home chain was recently revived by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The lawsuit alleges that 14 nursing homes across Pennsylvania, including one right here in Philadelphia, were understaffed in order to boost profits for the chain at the expense of the residents who were not properly...
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