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 ^  UPDATES  CBS NEWSTracking Abuse In Nursing Homes Many Homes Cited For Serious Violations One Woman Accused Caretaker Of Abuse  `READ ADVOCATE ILA SWAN'SESSAY ON WHITE COLLAR CRIME AND ABUSES IN THE NURSING HOME INDUSTRY  Medicare Monitor: How a whistle-blowerspurred pricing case involving drug makers Saturday, May 13, 2000 By DAVID S. CLOUD and LAURIE MCGINLEY The Wall Street Journal (Via AP) OR SEE ARCHIVES "Ven-A-Care Inc., the little Key West company where Mr. Bentley worked, bought the anti-cancer drug to administer to patients in their homes. He noticed that Ven-A-Care paid wholesalers about $10 for a 50-milligram dose, but Medicare reimbursed the company $56 — for a hefty $46 profit. Incredulous, he started looking into why." THIS ARTICLE HAS SOME EXCELLENT SUGGESTIOFS FOR PROTECTIONS AGAINST SCAMS Have I got a deal for you! America's elderly are No. 1 targets for swindlers and scam operations By Staff Writer Jeanne Sahadi February 14, 2000: 8:45 a.m. ET Federal edict seeks home care for many disabledWhite House orders states to comply with Supreme Court ruling FROM SPOKANE.NET Robert Pear - New York Times ADVOCACY ALERTREAD THISReform of Nursing Home Care in the Commonwealth of VirginiaA Call to Arms for NH Improved Care and Greater Accountability by Larry W. Bryant NEWS: for immediate release Contact: Violette King, President Nursing Home Monitors 618-466-3410 vkmonitor@earthlink.net Nursing Home Owners and Advocates Working Together To Keep Nursing Home Residents Safe The nation's foremost advocacy group, NCCNHR, and the nation's largest lobby group for nursing home owners, AHCA, have taken a stand in supporting the nursing home residents' right to camera surveillance Contemporary Long Term Care, the foremost nursing home industry publication, in its Nov 1999 issue quotes Sarah Burger, executive director for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, (NCCNHR): "Camera surveillance is an option for people who feel something is wrong they can't put their finger on" The American Health Care Association agrees to this right according to a joint statement to issued to providers and published in the Illinois Health Care Publication of November 12, l999: "If residents and families feel more secure with a camera in a patient's room, they should ask the facility for help in installing one" Given the very vulnerable state of the residents, the astronomical staff turnover rate in nursing homes, and the shortstaffing, it is not possible for the nursing home owners to keep all the residents safe, no matter how good their intentions. Although nothing can replace adequate supervision, this option will help create an atmosphere of trust between the industry and the consumer. Abuse is perpetrated by a very small segment of nursing home workers. The vast majority of nursing home staff is very hard working and very dedicated in - spite of the insufficient pay. Persons with bizarre behaviors will stay away from facilities with this option, and the public may no longer prefer to die than to end up in a nursing home as 30% of those currently polled do. Abuse is often perpetrated by one resident against another. We would like to see AHCA come out with an even stronger voice on this issue. Customer satisfaction is the goal of every business. They are in a position to help eliminate the fears of the nursing home consumers and they should do so. ALZHEIMER'S IN THE NEWSFor African Americans, less education and rural childhood raises Alzheimer's risk L MR LONG-TERM CARE"Martin Bayne, co-founder of The National Long-Term Care Policy Institute, a not-for-profit advocacy group, is creator and publisher of the Mr. Long-Term Care(tm) web site, the most popular and well-respected long term care information source on the Internet" AARPNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SENIOR CITIZENS FRIDAY FAXCenter for Aging and HealthGERINOTES, Volume 14 Number 2 Winter 1996 Crisis in U.S. Values - Health Care and Aging:What can we Learn from Scandinavian Countries SOCIAL SECURITY ON LINENEW AND NOTEWORTHYSOCIAL SECURITY ON-LINEPRESS RELEASESWASHINGTON POST, Medicare Special ReportUS CENSUS BUREAUFEDERAL INTERAGENCY FORUM ON AGING-RELATED STATISTICS: DATA BASE NEWS IN AGING LONG TERM HEALTH CARE CONCERNS This site was created to inform those concerned about long-term healthcare policy at the state and national level. Included you will find information regarding one state bill that has been passed, but not enacted, and one federal bill that needs your support to pass. Also, there are links to related sites on the Web that might be of interest. World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Policy and Communications in Cancer Care "The purpose of this website is to facilitate public access to information about pain relief and public policy, including material published by the PPSG, its WHO Collaborating Center, and other authoritative sources. For example, you can access information about assisted suicide (includes links to the 1997 Supreme Court decisions), state chronic pain treatment laws, state medical board policy, Model Guidelines for Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain, and international policy, with consumption trends of opioids, including morphine." |
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RESTRAINTSHealth Facilities Division Brochures"Restraints Have Risks, Make the Right Choice" (Colorado) TUBE FEEDINGSALZHEIMER.COMTube Feedings Do Not Benefit Dementia Patients Geriatric Nursing OnlineMarch/April 1999 • Volume 20 • Number 2 Dysphagia Among Nursing Home Residents Jeanie Kayser-Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN Kathryn Pengilly, MA ELDERLY FINANCIAL ABUSEMURDER TRIAL OF THE CENTURY I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH MUM'S WILLNATIONAL INQUIRER ARCHIVESDEADLY GYPSY BEAUTIES SPIN EVIL WEB OF MURDER "A lonely old man welcomes a beautiful young woman into his life and is thrilled at his incredible good fortune . . . until she kills him. 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