Legal experts say the settlement signals to other assisted living facilities that they must abide by laws that bar discrimination against transgender people.
More than 1,000 patients are stuck in Massachusetts hospitals waiting to be transferred to nursing homes and other facilities, in some cases for months, amid a lack of beds and other factors, according to a scathing new report.
The report by the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association found that delays in patient discharges to a variety of post-acute care settings have become a "growing challenge" for the state's hospitals and post-acute care providers.
Rhode Island's Medicaid home care providers are 35% underfunded to adequately compete in the healthcare labor market. Because of years of frozen and insufficient rate increases, patient waitlists have climbed to an all-time high.
This has caused a ripple effect impacting a lack of available workforce to care for our most vulnerable, homebound Rhode Islanders in need, including those with Medicare, private health insurance and those that can afford to pay out-of-pocket.
A Fenton-based home health care company has been ordered to pay more than $90,000 in back pay and damages to 23 workers who were denied overtime pay.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts last month found Independent Home Care of Michigan LLC and its owners Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick liable for $93,331, the U.S. Labor Department said in a news release.