Articles Tagged: Nursing homes

In Iowa, 15 facilities closed in 2022, 13 of them in rural areas

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.

Two workers who witnessed the incident did not immediately report it, but first went to another meeting and then to lunch.

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.

The QHC Humboldt North in north-central Iowa filed for bankruptcy in January as part of the QHC Facilities chain of nursing home

Responsibility in Bondurant death goes beyond direct staff, one says

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.

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.

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.

QHC moves to close three of the 10 facilities and the federal government seeks payment of $2.1 million owed to taxpayers.

Industry leaders say better government reimbursement rates are needed in order to better pay workers

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.

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.

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.

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.