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...California a team of lawyers specializing in fraud has begun to investigate what's killing people in the state's 1,400 nursing homes. In Washington, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, last week dispatched three investigators from the General Accounting Office to California to pore over data, confer with state officials and visit suspect nursing homes. One of their first stops was Creekside (now operating as Vacaville Rehabilitation and Care Center), which denied the investigators access to medical records--until they returned with a subpoena. Grassley calls the California data "troubling...
Packard and his investigators, referred to as "hearse chasers" by some in the nursing-home trade, have begun contacting relatives of deceased patients whose California death certificates cite malnutrition, dehydration and other signs of neglect. They're often shocked to learn what killed their loved ones. "They don't know their parents died of malnutrition," says Dina Rasor, an investigator working for Packard, "until we tell them." Even more telling, the causes of death on California death certificates are often listed by doctors affiliated with the nursing home involved, suggesting that Packard's list may well understate the number...
...Defense contractor" does not begin to describe Armstrong. Formerly with IBM, he is a shrewd marketing executive who will bring a hands-on style of management to a company that has begun to resemble a helpless giant. At Hughes, Armstrong spun off the automotive parts and defense businesses to bring the company to the cutting edge of the satellite and telecommunication industry. The market voted its quick approval of his latest move. After the story broke on CNBC last Friday, AT&T's stock rose 3.7%, to $45.19, while the rest of the market had a dismal...
...transformation devastated Baltimore's schools--a result not of the change in color but of the poverty that came with it. By the 1980s, even the black middle class had begun leaving the city. Declining enrollment and an accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed...
...contours of Baltimore's school-funding debate have begun to change. There are still cries for more money, but Baltimore's schools are at last being forced to acknowledge that money alone can't turn a failing system around. Its schools are in the first phase of a major reorganization, the result of a deal struck last spring between the city, the state and Baltimore's federal court that reflects an increasing belief in the power of good management to improve both financial and academic performance. The deal provides the school system with an additional $254 million over the next...