Virginia updates tagged with 'nursing home'

The stories are in our newspapers and on the television every year or so. A fire breaks out at a local nursing home, most likely caused by a carelessly handled cigarette, and multiple residents lose...

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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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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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Knowledge is power and sometimes it is the difference between being cared for or being neglected and abused. What am I talking about? Nursing homes of course and which ones are good and which ones...

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Lauren Ellerman and I spend a great deal of our professional time representing residents and their family members in cases of nursing home abuse and neglect. In today's world you no longer see the...

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Do you have a relative or friend in a nursing home and on Medicaid? If so, a few minutes of your time could do him or her a world of good. I'm talking about the federal tax refund (also called the...

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