- Billy Cunningham | October 31, 2009 10:53 AM | Mobile, AL
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Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
Last January I wrote a blog on the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act (then Senate Bill . 2838 and now Senate Bill 512) The last report from Congress is that the bill was referred to...
- Billy Cunningham | September 05, 2009 11:44 AM | Mobile, AL
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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...
- Billy Cunningham | July 07, 2009 1:16 PM | Mobile, AL
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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...
- Billy Cunningham | June 05, 2009 1:05 PM | Mobile, AL
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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...
- Billy Cunningham | January 18, 2011 4:39 PM | Mobile, AL
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Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
The red fire ant is now spread throughout the southern United States. Infestations have been reported in California and New Mexico. It is believed they originally came to the United States in the...
- Billy Cunningham | January 11, 2010 9:14 AM | Mobile, AL
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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...
- Billy Cunningham | November 07, 2009 11:14 AM | Mobile, AL
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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...
- Billy Cunningham | May 23, 2009 3:26 PM | Mobile, AL
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Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
In the April 1, 2009 issue of The Gerontologist published a survey study about Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs). 3,017 CNAs were surveyed in 2004 and 2005 abut recruitment, education, training and...
- Billy Cunningham | May 14, 2009 5:05 PM | Mobile, AL
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Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
Nevada’s Legislature is considering a bill that would allow patients in care facilities or their families or guardians install surveillance devices in the patients' rooms. Sen. Barbara...
- Wendi Lewis | June 18, 2008 6:25 PM | Montgomery, AL
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Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
A special joint meeting of the U.S. Senate Judiciary and U.S. Aging Committee met this morning to discuss the issue of mandatory arbitration. The specific issue at hand was S. 2838, the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act.