Governance lapse to cost nursing home operator $650,000

governance DALLAS: Authorities are increasingly showing no tolerance for governance breaches.

A stolen iPhone containing the medical records of more than 400 nursing home patients will cost the former owner of several nursing homes $650,000 under a federal settlement.

The theft occurred at a facility under the direction of Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia during February 2014 and led to an investigation by the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights…..

Full story covered in the Seniors Housing & Healthcare Trends.