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At a Fort Worth nursing home, fire alarms and sprinklers were not functional for a full year, according to a patient ombudsman. ... ‘Overwhelming’ safety issues reported at North Texas nursing ...
Winkler County, Texas. The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas concerning the retaliation against two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009.
Nursing home residents' rights are the legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home. [1] Legislation exists in various jurisdictions to protect such rights. An early example of a statute protecting such rights is Florida statute 400.022, enacted in 1980, and commonly known as the Residents' Rights Act.
The agency anticipates states will need to perform more than 90,000 nursing home complaint surveys in 2025, representing a 13% increase from 2022. "This investment will strengthen health, quality ...
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^1 Chapter 166 of the Texas Health & Safety Code ^2 Robert L. Fine, M.D.'s detailings of futile care statutes and processes from Baylor Health System ^3 White House Press Briefing 2005-03-21 ^4 As discussed in "Fine RL. Point: The Texas Advance Directives Act Effectively and Ethically Resolves Disputes About Medical Futility. Chest 2009 136(4 ...
Texas's Republican top prosecutor on Wednesday sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a new federal rule on minimum staffing for nursing homes, saying it would force rural nursing ...
In Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v.Talevski, 599 U.S. 166 (2023), the United States Supreme Court held that the provisions of the Nursing Home Reform Act at issue unambiguously created rights enforceable under Section 1983 of the Ku Klux Klan Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983), and private enforcement under §1983 is compatible with the Nursing Home Reform Act’s remedial ...