CROMWELL, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) – Police are investigating after a man allegedly shot and killed his 81-year-old wife before taking his own life at a Connecticut nursing home.Police responded to Apple Rehabilitation, a long-term care facility in Cromwell, just before 11 a.m. Friday. According to company officials, the tenant's 81-year-old husband came to visit, entered the room and shot her, then shot her to death. No one else was in the room at the time of the incident.Police identified the victim as 81-year-old Barbara Brandt and the suspect as her husband Dennis Brandt, 82, WFSB reports.Apple Rehab officials say there…
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Hopes to curb private equity investment in the health care sector ended in California over the weekend after a nationally watched bill was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.The bill was the nation's highest-profile legislative effort to regulate such investments in the health care sector, giving state attorneys general discretion to veto mergers.The hospital's demise comes amid U.S. Senate hearings into mismanagement at Steward Health, a chain of more than 30 private equity-backed hospitals in Massachusetts. The hospital's CEO and investors siphoned “hundreds of millions” of dollars from a local hospital, even though it sickened one of its worst patients.…
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) – A man fatally shot his 81-year-old wife and then took his own life at a Connecticut nursing home Friday, company officials said. The woman had been a resident at Apple Rehab in Cromwell for three years and was shot in her room, said Michael Landi, Apple Rehab's vice president of operations. Lundy said the woman had no roommates and no one witnessed the shooting. No one else was injured. Police identified the couple as Barbara Brandt and her husband Dennis Brandt, 82. Lundy said the motive was unknown and there were no known threats in the…
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Leading securities law firm Breichmer Fonti & Auld LLP announces that it will investigate Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC) for possible violations of federal securities laws. If you have invested in Acadia Healthcare, we encourage you to visit https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/acadia-healthcare-company-inc for additional information. Why did Acadia Healthcare's stock price fall? Acadia is one of the largest chains of for-profit psychiatric hospitals in the United States. On September 27, 2024, Acadia announced that it had received a request for information from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and a…
contributed ALAMOSA – In August, Evergreen Nursing Home, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, hired Amy Lopez as its new director of nursing. Lopez comes to the position with several years of experience working in the medical field. She previously worked at Evergreen as a certified nursing assistant, then earned her bachelor's degree in nursing and transitioned to hospital care in labor and delivery. In October 2023, she returned to Evergreen Long Term Care Facility and worked as a floor nurse until she was promoted to Director of Nursing. “So far, this team has been one of the best teams…
put healthcare in a better position Improving the security posture of healthcare providers is a major challenge, but it is not impossible. It starts with managing the vast attack surface that modern healthcare providers operate under. “To strengthen cyber resiliency, healthcare organizations must adopt a zero trust security model,” David explains. This approach emphasizes strict identity verification and access controls. By implementing Zero Trust principles, healthcare providers can ensure “least privilege” access to users, devices, and applications, reducing the number of entry points into the broader network and preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data. Risk is reduced. “Effectively tracking employees…
A Devon nursing home where seven people died after contracting the coronavirus had “no option” but to ask infected staff to work due to staff shortages, a coroner's report has revealed.The hearing included William Wilkinson (102 years old), Doris Lockett (92 years old), Roy Gilliam (96 years old), Jean Hartley (81 years old), Susan Skinner (70 years old), It was held after the deaths of Ronald Bumpfield (92 years old) and Stanislawa Koch (93 years old).Evidence was given to Alison Longhorn at Exeter Coroner's Court following the death of a resident at Homesley Care Home in Sidford between March and…
Nursing homes and hospitals are forging closer relationships and improving communication, and this trend is expected to lead to an increase in nursing home admissions, while readmissions and excess hospitalizations also decrease. Increased urgency and staffing shortages in recent years have meant that nursing homes have been forced to seek help from nearby hospitals when staff are unable to handle medically complex needs, from behavioral health issues to those that require more coordination. They are often reluctant to accept difficult cases that are referred to them. Sharing resources. But experts say the situation appears to be changing. Matt Niekerk, OSF…
An elderly man shot and killed his 81-year-old wife before turning the gun on himself at a central Connecticut nursing home, facility officials said Friday.The incident occurred around 11 a.m. at Apple Rehab in Cromwell, just south of Hartford.Dennis Brandt, 82, who doesn't live at the facility, walked in the door, checked in at the desk, and went into his room, according to Michael Lundy, the company's vice president of operations. It looked like he was doing something. I went to the building to meet my wife Barbara.An employee who heard the gunshots ran into the room and called 911,…
Providence Medical Institute, the Southern California-based physician services arm of the seven-state Providence Health System, will pay a $240,000 civil penalty to resolve potential HIPAA violations after ransomware attack It's planned. Why is it important?The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced the fine on October 3 following an investigation into a ransomware attack breach report regarding Providence Medical Research Institute's compliance with HIPAA security rules. In 2018, OCR indicated that the provider's IT systems were affected by a series of ransomware attacks that allegedly affected the protected electronic health information of approximately 85,000 people…