A proposal by the federal government to expand the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program to include staff COVID-19 vaccination rates is being opposed by the nation’s second largest nursing home association.
The Fraud Section of the Department of Justice and Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced cases against multiple defendants who perpetrated a variety of COVID-19-related scams on federal healthcare programs.
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Families of residents at a North Carolina nursing home are accusing the provider of failing to address its chronic understaffing in a new class-action lawsuit that alleges the issue led to neglect.
The suit was brought against the Citadel Salisbury in late May and alleges the facilityâs operator, Accordius Health, failed to correct existing staffing issues when it took over the nursing home in February 2020, according to a report by NC Policy Watch.
Some of the allegations point to staffing data the facility submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services showing nurse staffing met minimum federal requirements on only 10 of 275 days between April 2020 through December 2020 â during the heart of COVID-19. For 152 days, the nursing home reported no registered nurse work hours.
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News
José Mendoza’s snoring was bad – but the silence when he stopped breathing was even worse for his wife, Nancy. The sudden quiet would wake her and she waited anxiously for him to take another breath. If too many seconds ticked by, she pushed him hard so that h