Posts Tagged ‘nursing home’
Nursing Home Owner Faces Multiple Charges
The owner of Legacy Health Systems, which once operated twenty-seven nursing care facilities in Kentucky and two other states, appeared in a St. Louis courtroom to answer charges that he stole over $650,000 in Medicaid funds. The 52-year-old Nursing Home owner faces up to 37 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of…
Read MoreSenate Approves More Nursing Home Beds
Lawmakers agreed to release $10.5 million in bond funds to expand facilities in Western Kentucky and hopefully ease the nursing home neglect crisis in and around Bowling Green.
Read MoreCaregivers Sentenced In Elder Abuse Cases
Two individuals will spend the next two years in probation as the result of two separate nursing home abuses cases at two different Owensboro care facilities.
Read MoreLawmakers Prioritize New Nursing Home
Bowling Green Democrat Jody Richards will not be Speaker Pro Tem in the next House session, but he plans to aggressively push the local agenda in Frankfort. For the first time since Rep. Richards came to the statehouse in 1976, Republicans control the Commonwealth’s House of Representatives. Nevertheless, he believes his “history of treating the minority…
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