News Tagged ‘Colorado

Study: Hispanic nursing homes provide lower quality of care

elderly hispanic man 100x100 that serve primarily Hispanic residents provide a lower quality of care compared to that cater to a mostly white clientele, according to a Brown University study. The research, which was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, looked at the rate of bedsores at in select states and found that residents in with a larger concentration of Hispanic residents reported having more bedsores than with lower concentrations of Hispanic residents.

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Nursing home chain accused of substandard, life-threatening care

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a class of thousands of residents at 27 Colorado operated by SavaSeniorCare claims that state officials allowed the to operate without insurance in violation of state law, leaving residents without means to sue when they are abused and neglected, according to the Denver Post.

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