Overmedication along with inadequate staffing is a sometimes deadly combination. This article discusses the same. article

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Assisted Living Facilities are run by companies who are out for profit.  They aggressively market the facilities because the bottom line is to produce profits, not to provide care.  There is zero compassion, only greed. Patricia McGinnis is the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. She told FRONTLINE that the for-profit model […]

Assisted Living Facilities are run by companies who are out for profit.  They aggressively market the facilities because the bottom line is to produce profits, not to provide care.  There is zero compassion, only greed. Patricia McGinnis is the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. She told FRONTLINE that the for-profit model […]

Nursing homes without full sprinkler system will receive deficiency tag Nursing homes without an installed, fully functioning sprinkler system will be cited for a deficiency starting this month, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a memorandum released on Aug. 16, CMS clarified the sprinkler requirement that went into effect on Aug. 13. All nursing homes […]

Billy Howard/PBS Cheryl Morgan holds a photo of her father, who died after drinking dishwashing liquid in an assisted living facility in Georgia. Ms. Morgan is featured in a new PBS documentary, “Life and Death in Assisted Living.” Assisted living underwent a big growth spurt in the 1990s as major corporations built and bought facilities, […]