Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Texas HHA Faces Suit Over Murdered Family Member

Your policies on checking out your workers before hiring them may save you in a negligent hiring lawsuit. Case in point: Girling Home Health in Dallas (owned by industry giant Gentiva Health-care Services Inc.) faces just such a lawsuit after a patient’s relative was allegedly shot by a Girling caregiver’s boyfriend last December. Russell Martens, then 47, died in the [...]
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