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Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Fire crews called overnight to Northumberland County nursing center
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (WHTM) — No injuries were reported when firefighters were called for the second fire at a coal region nursing center this year. Firefighters were called to the Mount Carmel Senior Living Community around 1 a.m. early Saturday morning for a report of a fire. Crews at the scene said the fire was small in nature and contained to one room of the complex. Initially, a second alarm was struck for manpower and additional medical units were called as well. No residents were displaced and no one was injured. Firefighters from Northumberland and Columbia counties responded. Schuylkill County crews were cancelled en-route. Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Apple TV devices In January, 20 people were transported after a fire broke out at the same facility. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Gizmodo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘The Purge' Creator's Latest Movie Pits Pete Davison Against Elderly Eldritch Horrors
A young man begins his community service gig as a janitor at a nursing home, which seems like a boring, ordinary place at first—though he's cautioned against ever visiting the fourth floor. Since The Home is a horror movie, you can guess he'll discover there's a lot more to that warning than he realizes at first—and since The Home is from the guy who created The Purge, you can assume the darkest sides of humanity will absolutely be making themselves known. Check out the first trailer for The Home, which stars Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson and offers an urgent reminder that if someone says 'you've got interesting eyes' early in the movie, there'll definitely be someone poking into your corneas by act three. 'There's something very wrong with this place! Something terribly wrong!' Could it be that whatever's happening on the fourth floor involves organ theft or maybe even some kind of supernatural appropriation of youth? It's unclear, but tuxedos are a part of it, in the most sinister way possible. In a statement included with the trailer release, James DeMonaco—creator of The Purge franchise, and director and co-writer of The Home—gave a tiny bit more insight into his latest film. 'When I set out to create The Home, I aimed to capture the spine-chilling eeriness of '70s horror, where suspense simmers and ultimately erupts into glorious chaos,' he said. 'Joining me is my Staten Island brother, Pete Davidson, who unveils a darker, dramatic side as his character navigates a bizarre group of residents in an old age home. The growing tension culminates in an epic blood-soaked finale, designed to leave audiences gasping, terrified, and cheering. I can't wait for everyone to visit The Home. Cover your eyes, folks.' We will definitely be doing just that—or at the very least peeking through our fingers—when The Home hits theaters July 25.
The Guardian
21-05-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
US nursing home employees: do you have information about UnitedHealth's nursing home practices?
The Guardian has reported on allegations from current and former UnitedHealth employees that their company endangered patient safety in an attempt to cut hospitalization expenses and crossed legal lines to enroll residents in UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage institutional special needs plans (ISNPs). UnitedHealth/Optum has denied these allegations. We would like to hear from nursing home employees and operators about their experience working with UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage ISNP program. We would also like to hear from you if you are a current or former UnitedHealthcare or Optum employee who works or worked on the company's Medicare Advantage ISNP program. Please include as much detail as possible Please include as much detail as possible Please note, the maximum file size is 5.7 MB. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. If you include other people's names please ask them first. Contact us on WhatsApp or Signal at +447766780300. For more information, please see our guidance on contacting us via WhatsApp, For true anonymity please use our SecureDrop service instead. If you're having trouble using the form, click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here.
Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Medicaid cuts may threaten care for nursing home and elder-care residents
MARIETTA, Ga. — Traversing the halls of his nursing home in a wheelchair, Owen Allen listened to a visiting guitarist play 'Sweet Caroline,' then chipped away at a thousand-piece puzzle in the sunroom. Since muscular dystrophy struck and his legs started giving out, the 64-year-old Atlanta native relies on Medicaid to keep him in the 130-bed home where staff help him pull weights to regain his strength.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cuomo's campaign finance missteps pile up
NEW YORK — Andrew Cumo's mayoral campaign made a glaring error as aides rushed to report his fundraisers last month: They mixed up a documentarian who bundled checks for the frontrunner with a nursing home fraudster of the same name. The error came as Cuomo's team was making good on regulatory requirements that reporters had noted he dodged. In their haste Kevin Breslin, a nursing home operator who earlier this year pleaded guilty to Medicare and tax fraud, was reported as somebody who collected five contributions totaling $2,270 for Cuomo's campaign. But it was actually a documentarian and the son of famed reporter Jimmy Breslin who had gathered the checks. 'I support Andrew. He's a family friend forever!' the unconvicted Breslin said in an interview. 'I don't know about any nursing homes.' It was a minor error, but any nursing home reference creates a wince factor for Cuomo, who has been criticized for his requirement that they not turn away Covid-positive patients when he was governor during the outset of the pandemic. The order has dogged him on the campaign trail, even as rivals have failed to dent his polling lead. The episode is just the latest instance of how the Cuomo campaign — built on the premise of his competence during a time of crisis — has bumbled its way through the city's highly regulated public financing system. Cuomo was denied public matching funds in April after failing to follow the city's instructions on collecting information from donors. His team's end-around manner of communicating with a super PAC elicited a warning from regulators. The campaign failed to report all its bundlers as required by law, only doing so after the problem made headlines and blaming the delay on intermediaries failing to fill out forms. And when they belatedly shared the information, the wrong Kevin Breslin wasn't the only mistake. Cuomo's campaign reported that Geoff Berman, whom President Donald Trump appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2018, had helped Cuomo raise money from another Geoff Berman who served as the former executive director of the New York Democratic Party under Cuomo. Both Geoff Bermans did donate to Cuomo, and the Republican Berman — now a litigator at Fried Frank — even gave a max-out $2,100. But one Berman did not help the other. Cuomo campaign spokesperson Rich Azzopardi attributed that to a clerical error, and suggested that Berman and Breslin did not look closely enough at an intermediary form they signed. Breslin admitted as much; Berman did not respond to a request for comment. Taken together, the missteps underscore Cuomo's unfamiliarity with a decades-old system that provides candidates with public funds for qualifying contributions. The system essentially bankrolls campaigns: Zohran Mamdani, running a distant second to Cuomo, has received his max-out match of nearly $6.7 million already. The highly regulated system is new for Cuomo, who has only run state-level races with far higher donation limits and comparatively lax campaign finance enforcement. Until now, Cuomo has never sought public matching funds and has typically relied on a batch of wealthy donors to fund prior races. Donation limits at the state level during Cuomo's Albany tenure topped $60,000. Zellnor Myrie, a four-term state senator running far behind Cuomo in his own bid for mayor, boasted of a much smoother transition from the Albany system to the city's. 'Andrew Cuomo has said that New Yorkers should give him a chance, because he has been a competent leader, yet he has at each juncture of this campaign, failed to do the basic things that are necessary to uphold the law,' Myrie said at a press conference Tuesday, in response to Cuomo's issues with the Campaign Finance Board. Azzopardi chalked it all up to a few minor errors. 'The gulf between the insiders and the New Yorkers who are actually going to decide this race, an overwhelming number of whom want Andrew Cuomo to be mayor because they know he will fix what's broken and put this city back on the track, has never been wider,' he said in a statement. 'This is a 66 day old campaign that has already raised more than $2.5 million and these are two mundane clerical errors that are already being amended. My understanding is that none of this is especially unusual with this system.' He declined to comment on whether the campaign expects to receive public matching funds at the board's meeting next week — though he had expressed confidence last week to the New York Post that the campaign would get the payout. Meanwhile emails released through a Freedom of Information Law request reveal the board warned the Cuomo campaign on March 10 that its online fundraising page wasn't compliant with strict regulations for matching funds, after the campaign had already been collecting cash for 10 days. The page 'is missing the legally required affirmation statement' delineated in written guidance, the Campaign Finance Board's deputy director of candidate services told Rachael Harding, Cuomo's campaign compliance attorney. The campaign switched to the city's fundraising system by March 12, but it was too late — they had already collected hundreds of donations that could not get matched unless each donor filled out an additional form. The campaign also had trouble verifying the addresses of donors who gave online, prompting dozens of emails from the campaign to the board as it tried to troubleshoot, as first reported by the New York Post. Realizing the errors meant the campaign might not get the $2.5 million in public matching funds, the campaign scrambled, emailing donors asking for help — but it was too late. In a standard review of the campaign's fundraising filing, the board rendered ineligible 997 of the 1823 donors Cuomo's campaign was seeking public matching funds for. The 55 percent error rate was enough to drop the campaign below the threshold to qualify. Even after that, messages show the Cuomo campaign tried to convince the board to stretch the rules and pay up anyway. The board declined to grant a request from Cuomo's attorneys for a multi-million dollar payout just days after the denial if they could prove they fixed the issues. The board told the campaign it would need to submit all the documentation in the process of the official review, 'as is the process for every campaign.' The emails also show the Cuomo campaign beset by smaller issues. Famed fashion designer Kenneth Cole, Cuomo's brother-in-law, accidentally mailed a check meant for the Cuomo campaign directly to the campaign finance board. The board sent back the check, and emailed the campaign a heads up. The check didn't make it in time to be included in the filing, which only included donations received through March 13. But Cole still helped out. The campaign reported that he bundled $750 in donations from investors Jacob and Eric Ruttenberg.
