How to Protect Assets From Nursing Home Costs in Missouri Before It’s Too Late For many Missouri families, conversations about nursing home care begin during a crisis. A parent falls. A hospital stay turns into a long-term...
Category: Nursing Home Care
New Nursing Home Quality Measurements
August 1, 2016
The federal government has announced six new measurements for its system of comparing the quality of care patients receive at nursing homes. Anyone interested in information about the quality of a nursing home can go to...
Nursing Homes Abandoning Residents
July 12, 2016
Under federal law if a nursing home patient goes to a hospital and the nursing home subsequently refuses to readmit the resident, the resident is entitled to an administrative hearing conducted by state government. However,...
Court Declines to Enforce Nursing Home’s Arbitration Clause
February 25, 2016
Many nursing homes insert mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts with elderly patients. They do not do so for the benefit of the elderly. If you read the fine print on almost any standard contract a large company...