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This Memorial Day, Focus on Abuse of Veterans in Nursing Homes
Posted on 5/31/2010
Virginia Beach nursing home with violations will retain govn’t funding
Posted on 4/29/2010
Virginia Beach nursing home may lose Medicare and Medicaid funding
Posted on 3/31/2010
Jury awards senior $7.75 million in nursing home abuse lawsuit
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Kickbacks lead to nursing home residents being prescribed drugs
Posted on 1/29/2010
Virginia Beach nurse implicated in nursing home identity theft
Posted on 1/29/2010
Cases of nursing home abuse and neglect may go up over the holiday season
Posted on 11/30/2009
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- Fighting for the Rights of Nursing Home Residents: the Healthcare Bill Targets Elder Abuse
Virginia Beach nursing home with violations will retain govn’t funding
Posted on Apr 29, 2010
Last month it looked like the Beacon Shores nursing home would lose Medicare and Medicaid funding because of poor ratings. However, attorneys for the facility have apparently reached an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Beacon Shores Nursing and Rehabilitation was in the news last month when word came that they were at risk for losing their federal funding. It all came about because they were on a list of poor-performing nursing homes called “Special Focus Facilities”, and have been since February 2008.
The facility was labeled as such because it had consistently received poor ratings by CMMS and had already been given the chance to improve. Right now there are three other nursing homes in Virginia on the Special Focus Facility list; no word on whether or not those facilities will also risk losing federal funding.
Beacon shores had been cited for failing to notify doctors or family members when elder abuse or neglect happened at the facility. They also had deficiencies for failing to protect residents from abuse and neglect, among others.
The goal of the special focus facility program is to focus attention on nursing homes that consistently receive low ratings and do not improve on their own. These facilities are visited twice as often as other facilities, they face much stiffer penalties for deficiencies, and if they don’t improve they face being terminated from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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