Negligence on the part of nursing staff at Heaven’s Open Door Senior Living, an adult foster care facility in West Bloomfield, Michigan, resulted in a nightmare for an elderly resident who fell and broke her hip in four places. Mrs….

Investigative reporter Scott Lewis, of WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, uncovered alarming information about Ashley Court, an assisted living facility in Livonia.  Ashley Court was recently known as Berkley Court, and had a disturbing list of violations. Michigan Department of…

A nurse at St. Francis Nursing Center in Detroit ordered a nurse assistant to tie a highly agitated and confused resident to his chair with a bed sheet. An immediate jeopardy violation was issued to the facility for violating the…

Choosing to admit a loved-one to a nursing home is a difficult enough decision.  Once that decision has been made, the job becomes even more overwhelming.  How do you choose the best nursing home, and where do you start? According…

A report recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that Medicare paid $5.1 billion in 2009 to skilled nursing facilities providing inexcusably poor-quality of care to the elderly and other…

Almost every long-term care facility has an admission contract, which is usually called a Residency Agreement.  These agreements cover a wide range of topics ranging from the care to be provided, the amounts charged, who is going to pay for the care,…

When loved ones enters a nursing home, assisted living facility, or “independent living facility” they are often asked to sign forms called “Residency Agreements”.  These are generally long documents that the staff will skim through with you on the day…

Extreme caution should be used when admitting a loved one into any nursing home or assisted living facility. We are currently litigating a case against Hearthstone Assisted Living in Brownstown which is trying to force the family of a resident…