Posts tagged nursing home

• Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act Does Not Become Law

  Billy Cunningham | May 30, 2009 9:05 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In January I wrote a blog on S. Bill 2838, Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act. This bill never became law. The last action taken by the Senate on the bill was in September when it was reported...

• 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...

• Provisions of the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act

  Billy Cunningham | March 27, 2009 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Last week I wrote a blog on the proposed Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act introduced in the Senate. This week, let’s explore some of the provisions of that bill . It will enable...

• Nursing Assistant Survey Reveals Problems

  Billy Cunningham | May 23, 2009 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: 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...

• 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...

• Nursing Homes Demanding Arbitration/How To Draft A Power Of Attorney To Prevent Arbitration

  Billy Cunningham | June 24, 2008 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  How to draft a Power of Attorney to prevent binding arbitration in Nursing Home cases.

• Alabama among worst in nursing home deficiency reporting

  Wendi Lewis | May 16, 2008 3:35 PM | 1 CommentMontgomery, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A review of the nation's nursing home inspection reports by the Congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO) lists Alabama among nine states with the worst records of nursing home inspection accuracy, saying inspectors missed serious problems in more than 25 percent of all inspections from 2002-2007. The report said most states still fared dismally, missing at least one serious deficiency in 15 percent of all inspections.

• The Danger Of Fire Ants In Nursing Homes, Hospitals And Day Cares

  Billy Cunningham | January 18, 2011 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: 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...

• Nursing Homes Owners: Care Givers or Money Grubbers?

  Billy Cunningham | August 19, 2009 6:53 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  While we have learned about nursing home owners and operators setting up sham corporations to own property, rent facilities, ‘manage’ nursing, and ‘consult’ with nursing...