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Nursing Home Administrator Facing Charges For Locking Resident Out Overnight
In another shocking Iowa nursing home incident, a resident was locked out of the facility where he lived and left overnight. Iowa state officials investigated the chain of events, discovering what happened was no accident. The resident, who is wheelchair-bound and insulin-dependent, had been purposely locked out and left outside,…
Read MoreIowa DIA Fines Nursing Home Following Death of Veteran
The death of a resident of the Fonda Care Center in Pocahontas County resulted in a $6,500 fine assessed by the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals. Marvin Jacobs, a U.S. Army veteran, died in February after his airway became clogged. He had a tracheostomy and sometimes his airway would…
Read MoreIowa Facilities on Federal Watch List Due to Serious Care Issues
The federal government maintains a list of “Special-Focus Facilities” for nursing homes with serious prior and recurring quality of care issues. These nursing homes are considered the worst nursing homes in the country. To get this rating, nursing homes usually have at least twice the number of serious violations as…
Read More$1.8 Million in COVID-19 Stimulus Money May Have Been Diverted From Sioux City Nursing Home
A Sioux City, Iowa nursing home facility, Touchstone Healthcare Community, shut down last summer and declared bankruptcy amid a legal battle. The owners of Touchstone have been accused of purposely defrauding its creditors. However, the owners have made their own allegations against the facility’s management company, Health Dimensions Consulting (HDC)….
Read MoreIowa Long-Term Care Facility Under Criminal Investigation
A nursing home in southern Iowa is the subject of a criminal investigation into the treatment of residents living at the facility. This inspection comes following incidents that happened last year involving two residents at Windsor Place, a nursing home facility in Keokuk County, Iowa. What is less clear is…
Read MoreNursing Home Aide Squirts Glue into Eye of Resident
An Iowa nursing home may face federal penalties after a nurse’s aide mistakenly put glue into the eye of a resident. The incident happened at Aspire of Gowrie, a facility in Webster County that has a known history of multiple serious regulatory violations. In this latest incident, Iowa Capital Dispatch…
Read MoreIowa State Regulators Failed to Impose Triple Fine Against Nursing Home Where Resident Bled to Death
Last week, regulators at the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA) acknowledged they broke the law when they failed to impose a triple fine against a nursing home where a resident bled to death. The DIA imposed a fine of $17,500 for failure to make sure the resident’s treatment…
Read MoreNursing Home Faces Over $900,000 in Fines for Alleged Abuse
An Iowa nursing home in Taylor County was issued over $900,000 in fines for the abuse of one of its residents. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed these fines against Lenox Care Center in Taylor County following the findings of recent state inspections. In August 2022, state…
Read MoreIowa Regulators See 45 Percent Increase in Health Care Facility Complaints in 2022
Through October of 2022, the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA) has received 2,186 complaints about health care facilities, such as nursing homes. The DIA is receiving an average of 219 complaints per month, which is a 45 percent increase compared to the past two years. The number of…
Read MoreUSA Today Investigation Finds Thousands of Nursing Homes Routinely Violate Staffing Rules
An investigation by USA Today has revealed the scope of the problem of understaffing at U.S. nursing homes – in 2021, more than 75 percent of these facilities had fewer aides and nurses than they should have. Despite this, just 589 (four percent) of these facilities were cited by regulators…
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