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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Nursing homes say they need more money than bill includes
By Danielle Killey Jon Riewer said his organization faces funding shortages, losing employees and struggling to provide care to the elderly and disabled. At this point I would classify our situation a...
Posted on 4/22/13 at 12:50 PM
Minnesota nursing home sued for overbilling state 
Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing the owner of a Plymouth nursing home for fraud for allegedly overbilling the state for $2.7 million over 18 months.
By Associated Press , October 21, 2009
Minn. officials find sexual abuse at St. Louis Park nursing home
State investigators are reporting that a nursing assistant at a St. Louis Park nursing home sexually abused a resident who has dementia.
October 08, 2009
Slain 100-year-old woman had been active, son says
The son of a 100-year-old woman, who was found strangled in her nursing home bed with a plastic bag over her head, says his mother was still active and loved shopping.
By Rodrique Ngowi , October 08, 2009
Minnesota officials find 4th case of nursing home abuse
Investigators from the state Health Department found a teenage aide abused two frail residents at a west-central Minnesota nursing home.
By Associated Press , September 18, 2009
Three workers accused of abusing elderly in Virginia, Minn.
Details about the alleged abuse at Edgewood Vista Virginia were released Tuesday in a report by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Office of Health Facility Complaints. Among the allegations, employees are accused of abusing one resident with Alzheimer’s disease by pinching her in the breast, slapping her buttocks, and throwing balls at her.
By Associated Press , September 02, 2009
Howard Gleckman, Washington, column: Don’t forget long-term care reform
None of these long-term care plans is perfect, but they all are better than the mess we have.
August 19, 2009
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Wounded chaplain fell at care center before his death
A medical examiner's report says the military chaplain gravely wounded in Iraq five years ago suffered head injuries in a fall at his nursing home just before his death.
By Associated Press , July 01, 2009
Cold Spring, Minn., couple helps dementia patients
Erin and Chris Bonitto, Cold Spring, Minn., have made it their mission to improve the quality of life of dementia patients by showing long-term caregivers how to reach them. Since the husband and wife team founded Gemini Consulting in 1998, they’ve spread their unique approach to dementia care facilities in 47 states. This summer, they’ll take their message to the world.
By Jane Laskey , May 25, 2009
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Health reform must include long-term care
America’s health care system is in trouble — but at least most Americans have options.
Our long term care system is in trouble, too. The difference is, there are no good options.
May 07, 2009
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Minnesota spending bills would spare most nursing homes
Most nursing homes are spared big budget cuts, and low-income Minnesotans on government health insurance remain covered under Democratic lawmakers’ health-care spending proposals. Protecting government-subsidized health insurance for the poor is a key priority for the DFL-controlled House and Senate, the committee chairmen said as they prepare their spending bills for final votes.
By Scott Wente , April 24, 2009
Former nursing home aide pleads guilty to abusing residents
A former nursing home aide has pleaded guilty to three counts of disorderly conducted directed against vulnerable adults. During a court appearance Monday in Montevideo, Minn., Maria Josephine Bjerke, 25, pleaded guilty to three of the six original abuse counts against her. The charges are all gross misdemeanors.
By Tom Cherveny , April 15, 2009
Evacuated elderly Fargoans arrive in Bismarck
Nursing students helped elderly people who were evacuated from the flood-stricken Fargo area into a gymnasium filled with cots and colorful blankets at the University of Mary in Bismarck.
By James MacPherson , March 27, 2009
Fargo’s Eventide nursing home to evacuate today
Clara Sellheim initially forgot her toothbrush Wednesday as she hustled to grab clothes, ice cream and her computer after being told she had to leave her residence at Moorhead’s Eventide Living Center.
By Brittany Lawonn , March 25, 2009
Nursing home residents present challenge to staff
Before becoming “Resident 14” at a nursing home in northeastern North Dakota, he was a laborer and loving family man. A gentleman by all accounts. But the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in his 70s transformed him from a doting grandfather to a downright violent old man, racking up some 50 assaults on patients and staff at the nursing home in New Rockford, N.D., where he lived for only a year before his death.
By James MacPherson , March 22, 2009
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