In Iowa, 15 facilities closed in 2022, 13 of them in rural areas
Articles Tagged: Nursing homes
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Jan. 27, 2023 6:00 am3d ago
State inspectors say a female resident of Sigourney’s Windsor Place Senior Living Campus was left in a vegetative state in November after the facility’s administrator ignored the staff’s concerns about the woman’s worsening condition and her requests to be taken to a hospital.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Nov. 21, 2022 11:34 am69d ago
Two workers who witnessed the incident did not immediately report it, but first went to another meeting and then to lunch.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine Nov. 21, 2022 11:34 am69d ago
State inspectors say the abuse involved a worker at Heritage Specialty Care who allegedly took $1,625 from a resident with a spinal cord injury and later called him names.
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capitol Dispatch
News Oct. 10, 2022 6:00 am114d ago
The QHC Humboldt North in north-central Iowa filed for bankruptcy in January as part of the QHC Facilities chain of nursing home
By Clark Kaufmann, - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Sep. 30, 2022 5:00 am122d ago
Responsibility in Bondurant death goes beyond direct staff, one says
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine Sep. 26, 2022 5:00 am126d ago
Two Iowa nursing home patients froze to death outside this past winter. A nurse at one home faces no criminal charges, but a worker at another faces a second-degree murder charge.
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Aug. 22, 2022 6:00 am161d ago
QHC Facilities, which owns eight nursing homes and two assisted living facilities in Iowa, has been cited for at least 184 regulatory violations in the past 20 months while neglecting to pay fines for poor quality care and fees that would have boosted the pay of front-line workers.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine Aug. 7, 2022 8:31 pm175d ago
The 125-bed Touchstone Healthcare Community in Sioux City was added July 27 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ list of care facilities eligible for designation as a Special-Focus Facility List.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Digest
News Jul. 24, 2022 10:16 am190d ago
QHC moves to close three of the 10 facilities and the federal government seeks payment of $2.1 million owed to taxpayers.
Health Care and Medicine Jul. 16, 2022 6:46 am198d ago
Industry leaders say better government reimbursement rates are needed in order to better pay workers
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Jul. 12, 2022 6:00 am202d ago
As of last month, there were 410 complaints pending against Iowa nursing homes that were at least 30 days old. Of them, 24 were over a year old.
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 12, 2022 2:16 pm231d ago
An Iowa nursing home worker who admitted stealing a resident’s painkillers says the stress of watching more than a dozen COVID-19 patients die alone contributed to her use of cocaine and other drugs.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 6, 2022 6:00 am239d ago
QHC Facilities, which owns eight skilled-nursing facilities and two assisted-living centers in Iowa including in Marion, filed for bankruptcy protection in late December.
By Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health Care and Medicine May. 31, 2022 6:27 pm243d ago
An Iowa nursing home where a resident was found dead in a pool of blood last summer after a series of falls has been fined $18,000 by the state.