This summer was a busy one for the owners of Avante at Boca Raton, Inc., the operators of the skilled nursing home of the same name in central Boca Raton. On four different visits from field office representatives of the Agency for Health Care Administration, or AHCA, the governing regulatory body of all heath…
Nearly 8,000 nursing home residents and staff have passed due to Covid-19, and nursing home negligence may play a role in some of these cases.
Last month, the official U.S. website for Medicare (Medicare.gov) significantly altered the scoring method used for measuring ratings of the nation’s nursing homes in its vast online database and comparison tool, Nursing Home Compare. Following the changes of the scoring model rolled out in February of 2015, more than 60% of nursing homes saw…