1. Kickbacks – Long Term Care Pharmacy: United States Department of Justice, by way of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc. alleging that it solicited and received millions of dollars in kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbot Laboratories.
1. “Cheat Sheets” used by nursing staff to access resident’s DNR/code status – Minnesota Department of Health investigators found neglect on the part of a Pioneer Care facility located in Fergus Falls, MN in an incident involving a resident who died without being given CPR. The state investigation finding of neglect was based partly on the facility’s informal system or “cheat sheet” maintained by the nursing staff to access each resident’s advance directive choice or “code status”.
1. Production of Quality Assurance Committee documents under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments (The Act), 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r: The Arizona Appellate Court, in Azore LLC v. The Honorable Edward Basset, reviewed the trial court’s order compelling Sunwest Choice Healthcare and Rehab, an Azore corporation, to produce emails, a consultant report and incident tracking logs associated with its quality assurance committee in a wrongful death action.
