State Files Consumer Protection Lawsuit Against Nursing Homes

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A company with 11 skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough staff to provide basic patient care – and faked it when state Department of Health inspectors were around, the state attorney general said in a consumer protection lawsuit filed Friday.
One patient, for example, needed medical cream applied daily but records show it was skipped 19 times one month. The same resident didn’t shower for 14 days that month and didn’t have his ha