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The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman ruled on the case HEALTH authorities in East Sussex have come in for criticism over how they treated a woman with dementia and her daughter. In a recently published report, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found against both East Sussex County Council and the East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for how the organisations handled the care arrangements of a woman with Lewy body dementia. The woman, referred to only as Mrs A in the report, was found to be eligible in 2013 to receive Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funded by the CCG.
Campaigners say the rationing of this healthcare is the biggest public scandal of modern times .
Now the
Daily Express is urging families to join the fightback against an injustice that sees sick patients bankrupted after being denied their right to free universal health care.
Retired Rear Admiral Philip Mathias – of the nhschcscandal.co.uk campaign – who was forced to fight for a refund of £200,000 spent on his mother s care in Wiltshire, said: There is overwhelming evidence that this CHC scandal has unlawfully denied tens of thousands of very ill and vulnerable people the healthcare funding they are legally entitled to.
Deaths at Trumbull County nursing homes and assisted living facilities rose by 13 this week, and infections spiked at several Trumbull County facilities and at Youngstown’s private prison.
Seven Trumbull County facilities had at least three patient and or staff cases of COVID-19 last week, but that number climbed to 13 this week, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
A few facilities saw notable spikes in infections.
Shepherd of the Valley nursing home in Howland saw an increase of 25 patient cases and 10 staff cases this week.
And, Gillette Nursing Home in Warren reappeared on the list with 15 new patient cases and 16 new staff cases.
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Deaths at Trumbull County nursing homes and assisted living facilities rose by 13 this week, and infections spiked at several Trumbull County facilities and at Youngstown’s private prison.
Seven Trumbull County facilities had at least three patient and or staff cases of COVID-19 last week, but that number climbed to 13 this week, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
A few facilities saw notable spikes in infections.
Shepherd of the Valley nursing home in Howland saw an increase of 25 patient cases and 10 staff cases this week.
And, Gillette Nursing Home in Warren reappeared on the list with 15 new patient cases and 16 new staff cases.