Holding Corporations Accountable
As Americans live longer, we must ensure that we have access to quality long-term care in either skilled nursing facilities or home care environments.
Ensign Group
Nursing Home Watch is a coalition of senior advocates, clergy, nursing home workers and residents, their family members, SEIU, and community leaders who have united to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care. We seek to expose unsafe operators as part of our efforts to improve the quality of life for nursing home residents. Because large, for-profit nursing home chains are more like to offer insufficient staffing and care, Nursing Home Watch is focusing on one of the largest and fastest-growing nursing home operators in the western United States--The Ensign Group. For more information, visit www.NursingHomeWatch.org.
Harborside Nursing Homes
Families trust nursing homes to provide safe, reliable and responsive care for theirl oved ones. But some of Harborside's nursing homes lag behind state averages in staffing and have more patient care standard violations than average. Get the facts about patient care violations in Harborside nursing homes, like incidents in Indiana with residents suffering from worms in their rooms and feces in their showers. Visit www.HarborsideWatch.com.
Erickson Retirement Community
As retirement communities begin to grow, it's important to hold companies like Erickson accountable for providing quality, affordable long term care. Erickson Retirement Communities can be very costly, yet the high cost doesn't stop them from getting cited for patient care violations. Families should be careful and get to know the Erickson contract and resident care record before they make important decisions about their children's inheritance. For more information, visit www.EricksonWatch.info.
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Death and Debt:
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Wilmac Corporation, owner and operator of four nursing homes in southeast Pennsylvania, has an unsavory record of hitting families with unpaid medical bills after assuring many of them they wouldn't be held financially liable for an elderly patient's care.
SEIU researchers discovered dozens of cases where families have been sued by the company for medical debt. Some have had to file for bankruptcy.
Through leafleting, billboards, newspaper opinion pieces, radio ads, TV news, online outlets and meeting with public officials and community leaders, SEIU has been calling attention to Wilmac's unconscionable behavior and giving community members the information they need to choose quality nursing homes for their loved ones. As a result of the publicity, more victims--like Aaron Downes who is being sued for $35,000--have stepped forward to demand accountability from Wilmac. Learn more at www.WilmacWatch.org.
Long Term Care Issues
Aging in America
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