Nursing Home Abuse

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo enacted a controversial law granting nursing homes and other essential businesses immunity from lawsuits. The law, known as [...]

New York AARP Asks Governor Cuomo to Implement Nursing Home Reforms Since Covid-19 began to spread about a year ago, the number of nursing home deaths has skyrocketed – nursing home residents [...]

Can You File a Lawsuit in NY or Other States For Abuse or Neglect in a Nursing Home? In December 2020, the family of Jakob Khorsandi and two other families filed lawsuits against Silverado Senior [...]

Attorney General Releases Results of Investigation Into Covid-19 Deaths in New York Nursing Homes In a 76-page report published January 28, NY Attorney General Leticia James’s office (OAG) [...]

Professor Reminds Us That “Nursing Home Horrors” Go Beyond Covid-19 In a December 1, 2020 opinion article in the New York Post (“the Post”), Professor Charles Camosy provided a grim reminder that [...]

Fox Reports: Nursing Home Neglect Has Caused “Excess” Deaths Since the Start of the Pandemic In a recent article, Fox News reported that it is not just Covid-19 that has resulted in an alarming [...]

Covid-19 Puts Nursing Home Residents At Risk As Covid-19 has rapidly progressed around the globe, New York is finally beginning to emerge from the darkness. After months of isolation and strict [...]

Trump Administration Simplifies Nursing Home Comparison Tools In a press release issued by CMS.gov, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency praised the Trump administration for [...]

Nursing Home Abuse is a National Problem That is Under-Reported Reports released in June 2019 by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG), indicate [...]

Nursing Aides Face Criminal Charges For Abuse in New Jersey Care Facilities Nursing home abuse and neglect take place at an alarming rate. Abuse of residents in nursing homes occurs in a variety [...]