Posts tagged Nursing Home

• Falling Down Stairs

  Ken Margolin | February 15, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Falling down a flight of stairs or even a few steps can cause serious injuries. Broken bones, head injury, and other trauma can result. In determining whether a stair injury case should result in a lawsuit, a number of factors need to be determined in addition to the severity of the injury. Stair injury cases are a form of premises liability litigation. Stair design is one factor to be analyzed....

• Nursing Homes Still Profitable during the Recession

  Beth Janicek | November 18, 2009 3:13 PM | 1 CommentMcAllen, TX Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  To many people our recent recession is old news. By now, everyone is used to the downturn in the economy, the rising unemployment rate, foreclosures, and the stock market falling. Despite the weekly...

• AstraZeneca Allegedly Paid Psychiatrist to Over-Prescribe Anti-Psychotic Medication to Patients

  David Mittleman | November 15, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca may have found it’s most lucrative salesman yet when they discovered Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein. Indeed, Reinstein was allegedly bringing...

• Faced With More Claims, Long-term Care Insurers Deny Benefits

  Nick DiCello | September 02, 2009 9:26 AM | 9 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  As Baby Boomers aged, there was a boom in the sale of long-term care insurance during the 1990’s. Now, however, an ever increasing portion of our population, which is living longer and longer,...

• 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...

• Stage 4 Bed Sore (Decubitus Ulcer)

  M. Brandon Smith | March 30, 2007 12:09 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The final stage in the bed sore classification system is stage 4. In a stage 4 bed sore, the most serious and advanced stage, almost all skin has been lost in the affected area and a very deep wound has occurred. The would itself has extended through the muscles, tendons, organs, and/or bones. Stage 4 bed sores, also termed decubitus ulcers, almost always require surgical intervention to remove...

• 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...

• 15 Nursing Home Residents Abused In Albert Lea Nursing Home

  Mike Bryant | August 31, 2008 11:27 AM | 3 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In a shocking story from Albert Lea Nursing home of physical and mental abuse by workers passing the time by "having fun" with 15 residents . Sexually touching, beating and gagging them being a...

• National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Pressure Ulcer Staging System

  Jacob Diesselhorst | November 15, 2007 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Updated Pressure Ulcer Staging SystemAbstractThe National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has updated the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers based on current research and expert opinion solicited from hundreds of clinicians, educators, and researchers across the country. The amount of anatomical tissue loss described with each...

• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against California Nursing Homes

  Randy Walton | November 07, 2007 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A class action lawsuit for substandard nursing home care was filed in Orange County Superior Court against S&F Management Company, Inc.; S&F Management Company, LLC; Windsor Healthcare Management, Inc.; and its 15 skilled nursing care facilities around the state of California.Stephen Garcia, attorney for the plaintiff, alleges in the complaint that Windsor promotes itself in a misleading way,...