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CMS Names Thousands of Nursing Homes With High Bedsore, Restraint Rates
For the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has publicly rel...
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Assisted Living Facility Kicks Out Medicaid Residents Day Before Law Protecting Them Takes Effect
For an update on this article, click here. On March ...
Read moreBook Review: How to Protect Your Family's Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets
An attorney specializing in elder care and estate planning provides detailed and practical information on how Medicaid works and the strategies for qualifying for it to pay long-term care costs (2009 edition updated through Jan. 1, 2009).
Read moreThe Eldercare Handbook: Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions
Feds Finally Release Complete List of Deficient Nursing Homes
The Bush administration's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the complete list of U.S. nursing homes that have failed t...
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Study Suggests Medicaid-Sponsored Home Care Reduces Nursing Home Use
A recently released study of Medicaid-financed nursing home use over 18 months in 2001 and 2002 finds that in states such as Oregon that have ex...
Read moreUse of Nursing Home Restraints Has Declined
A report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that the use of restraints in nursing homes has declined 40 percent in ...
Read moreUPDATE: Assisted Living Facility Decides Not to Evict Medicaid Residents
Elaine Vaughn's 94-year-old mother won't have to move after all. In late March, Liberty Shores Assisted Living Retirement Community had announc...
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