Posts tagged nursing home abuse

• Sizeable Nursing Home Verdict Indictment of Low Standards

  Dottie Perry | August 31, 2010 3:52 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A recent California jury verdict in a quasi-class action suit against the owner of 22 nursing homes in that state awarded 32,000 plaintiffs a total of $677 million in damages. Skilled Healthcare...

• Kickback Schemes or Legitimate Marketing?

  Billy Cunningham | February 06, 2010 12:42 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Washington Post a few weeks ago reported that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to boost sales of its drugs in nursing homes, including an antipsychotic that...

• Nursing Home Incident Reports Should Be Provided

  Billy Cunningham | January 11, 2010 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Often in a nursing home case, determining how the incident- a fall, choking, burns- really happened is difficult because the nursing home patient often is unable to describe the event. We have...

• New Website to Help Families Learn About Nursing Homes

  Billy Cunningham | November 14, 2009 8:40 AM | 2 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The National Citizens for Nursing Home Reform (http://www.nccnhr.org/ ), a consumer advocacy group for nursing home residents and caregivers in nursing, homes, announced that the Brown University...

• Caps on Damages Make No Sense

  Billy Cunningham | November 07, 2009 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Republican proposal on health care reform has provisions to limit compensation for non-economic injuries to persons injured or killed as the result of medical malpractice including residents of...

• The Consumer's Role in the Nursing Home/Healthcare Reform Battle

  Billy Cunningham | October 24, 2009 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Health care reform is the big issue today- as it should be. But how will it affect our elderly in nursing homes? Nursing home owners say they are looking at $16 billion dollars in cuts from Medicare...

• Nursing Home Direct Care Givers are Essential to Good Care

  Billy Cunningham | September 05, 2009 11:44 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The SCAN Foundation, a California philanthropic organization which was established to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors released a paper which confirmed...

• Nursing Home Caregivers Strike

  Billy Cunningham | August 08, 2009 12:45 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Over 300 union members at the four OMNI nursing homes in New Jersey have been without a contract since 2007. Two years ago, the owner of these homes, Avery Eisenreich, walked away from the...

• Best Nursing Homes and Tips to Help Find Them

  Billy Cunningham | July 07, 2009 1:16 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The U.S. News and World Report’s July 7, 2009 issue has some very helpful information for those of us faced with putting a loved one in a nursing home. It also lists the 41 best nursing homes...

• No Arbitration in Nurisng Homes Cases In Illinois

  Billy Cunningham | June 05, 2009 1:05 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In the case of SSC Odin Operating Co. v. Carter, Sue Carter the U. S. Supreme Court on June 1, 2009 by refusing to review an Illinois appellate court ruling, has tacitly agreed that a state law...