Virginia updates in category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

My firm represents residents and their families in claims of elder abuse. The biggest obstacle to receiving good care in a nursing home is the lack of enough nurses and aids to care for the...

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What a sad story! The body of a 71-year-old man missing from Bowling Green Healthcare Center (Caroline County, Virginia) nursing home since August 3 has been found. Robertson suffered from dementia....

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I live in Virginia and our state law requires sprinkler systems in nursing homes and other long term care facilities...I thought all states did...but I was wrong. Even the federal government doesn't...

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The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on August 7 about America's nursing homes wrongfully discharging residents. The article states that one in seven discharges from Washington, DC...

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This is a disturbing report! An employee at an Alice, Texas nursing home reported to police that a 64-year-old male resident was seen sexually assaulting a 65-year-old female resident. This is bad...

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Maryland is studying whether restrictions should be placed on large corporate ownership of nursing homes as regulators face criticism that private equity groups make it more difficult for the public...

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Why does this tragedy repeated happen? An individual is placed in a nursing home due to advancing dementia or Alzheimer's disease. The family is worried that dad or mom will become disoriented and...

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Ken Conner, the conservative Christian Republican trial lawyer came to Washington to testify in support of a bill that would ban the use of mandatory binding arbitration clauses in nursing home...

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This is kind of scary! A nurse who gave unauthorized medicine last week to a nursing home resident who later died has been fired, and now the local police are investigating. The resident was given...

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Not surprising, but when feds report 20% of Nursing homes (a conservative estimate) provide sub-standard care, something needs to be done.... "A total of 20% of nursing homes deliver care that is...

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Did you know that most nursing homes are owned by stockholders? Does that matter when you are choosing a long term care facility for your family member? It should. Although there may not be a great...

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Note: see also Medical Malpractice category. One of the legislative changes that many states need to enact is to require a minimum amount of insurance for all medical professionals, hospitals and nursing homes. It appears to me that the states are going to catch up fast with these nursing homes that are hiding all of their assets and keeping inadequate insurance limits. The bottom line is that the tort reform medical malpractice "crisis" has been a massive sham that has used falsehoods to influence the public.

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Over the years, nursing homes have been called upon to provide increasingly complex medical care to residents. Much of that complex care requires the use of sophisticated medical devices such as...

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That is correct...it is not a misstatement. I did not mean to say that two residents died as a result of neglect or abuse. The nursing homes at issue are located near Sacramento, California. The...

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As our readers have heard me say before, arbitration agreements in nursing home admission contracts are unfair and unreasonable. These agreements, often hidden in the small print, prevent the...

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