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Kansas
| August 19 2003 |
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Kansas Reinstates Abuse Reporting Hotline |
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The state's elder and child abuse reporting hotline is again being staffed 24-hours a day by state employees after a several-month stint of having the phone answered by machine after 11 p.m. and until 7 a.m. |
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KCTV 5 News
www.kctv5.com
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| December 09 2003 |
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Nursing Home show trend of good inspections |
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Kansas Advocates for Better Care has issued a list of nursing homes with five or fewer inspection deficiencies -- none of the most recent of which were for actual harm, or abuse, neglect, or exploitation -- for the three most recent inspections. They are Friendship Manor Rehab Center, Haviland; Medicalodge of Kinsley; Minneola Nursing Home; and Bethel Home, Montezuma. |
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Dodge City Daily Globe
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/120903/sta_1209030033.shtml
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| March 08 2004 |
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Bill would bar bad reviews of nursing homes from court |
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Discussion of House-passed bill HB 2306, which would bar nursing home inspection reports being allowed into court unless they "directly refer and relate to the named plaintiff." Box contains voting records of local House members. |
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Lawrence Journal-World
http://www.ljworld.com/section/legislature/storypr/163609
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| October 17 2004 |
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About the Series |
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"Reporter Mike Casey spent eight months this year examining the records of nursing homes in the metropolitan area. Casey reviewed thousands of pages of lawsuits, congressional reports, government audits and other public records. He conducted hundreds of interviews with nursing home residents and administrators, nursing care experts, government officials, families and others." |
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Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/frail_and_forgotten/9938609.htm
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| October 17 2004 |
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Nursing home errors punish the vulnerable |
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"The Star's analysis identified 11 nursing homes that were each hit with at least seven violations for harming residents or jeopardizing their safety. Inspection records for the 11 homes documented the deaths of three residents, ampuations of residents' legs twice, 24 injuries from preventable falls and 37 avoidable or poorly treated bedsores…." Of 132 area homes, "35 percent failed at least once to prevent falls and other accidents. 30 percent did not prevent avoidable bedsores or treated them poorly. 27 percent failed to treat severe burns properly, give pain medication or perform other necessary medical services." Lengthy article. |
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Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/9938610.htm
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Mike Casey
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| October 17 2004 |
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What's behind the problems? |
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"Staffing shortages, poor training and communication breakdowns. Those were the main causes of problems at the 11 area nursing homes with the highest number of serious violations of health standards, according to an analysis by The Kansas City Star…. The Star's analysis found that Missouri and Kansas homes with less-than-average staffing had about 12 percent more violations per home than those with average staffing or better." "…Missouri only requires aides to have 75 hours of training and 100 hours of on-the-job supervision. Kansas requires 90 hours of training, which includes on-the-job supervision. Missouri manicurists need 400 hours, and those in Kansas need 350." |
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Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/frail_and_forgotten/9938613.htm
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Mike Casey
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| October 17 2004 |
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For-profit homes are cited for higher number of violations |
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"In their most recent inspections, for-profit facilities averaged 10.2 minor and serious violations per home compared with 7.4 violations at non-profit institutions…. That's nearly 40 percent more violations…. [A]nalysis of records for Kansas and Missouri shows that residents of nonprofit homes receive an average of 20 minutes more nursing care each day than those in for-profit homes…. Medicaid recipients [on which facilities say they lose money] accounted for 65 percent of the residents in for-profit homes compared with 53 percent of those in nonprofit homes." |
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Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/frail_and_forgotten/9938614.htm
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Mike Casey
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