National health spending reached $4.5 trillion in 2022, or $13,493 per person. Spending for services provided at freestanding nursing homes and continuing care retirement communities, which represented 4% of overall spending, increased by 5.6% in 2022, to $191.3 billion, after reporting a 7.8% dip in spending in 2021. The U.S. government spent more on health
This story first appeared in the SC Daily Gazette. A mew report published by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging shows a lack of investigation and enforcement by regulatory agencies over the long-term care industry. Vulnerable adults are being abused and neglected and the government does nothing to deter the conduct. The report mentions South Carolina as one
Nationally, many nursing homes are owned by groups of out-of-state and unknown investors who have formed limited liability corporations to avoid accountability and operate each of their facilities. The facility owners are affiliated with other for-profit vendors that sell their services — such as management, staffing and resident therapy — to the nursing homes. Such
Kandus Jellison is a certified nursing assistant. She sued her former employer for wrongful termination. The lawsuit alleges that supervisors at Oakwood Specialty Care failed to care for a resident’s wellbeing after a fall, and denied his rights to participate in his care and contact anyone he wished. She was wrongly fired for disputing a
The United States spends an average of about $13,000 per person every year on health care. Nearly 70% of seniors will need long-term care services as they age, per Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The American health care system maximizes the profits of health care companies at the expense of families’ budgets. No other country comes
Dying Broke, the investigative series, uses KFF polling, original analysis and interviews with experts and impacted individuals and their families to examine the challenges facing families and caregivers in navigating long-term care. The project found that nearly three million older Americans who need long-term help are not receiving it, in large part because of the
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