Making the decision to find a care facility for a loved one is difficult and emotionally charged. We would like to think that all nursing homes are clean, caring, and compassionate places. Many are not. There are many tools you can use to try to find a good fit for your family member. While we […]
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A Brooklyn nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores. To read the full story please click: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581276,00.html
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From the GAO: Extendicare nursing home in Kentucky worst home in that state and second worst in the country. Britthaven nursing home in Kentucky second worst nursing home in Kentucky. http://bulletin.aarp.org/states/ky/2009/48/articles/richmond_nursing_home_is_second_worst_nation_agency.html
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Britthaven, Inc., is a North Carolina based family owned nursing home chain with homes in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia. One of its homes in Kentucky has been identified as one of the worst nursing homes in the United States. To read more, click on this link: http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/local/local_story_327191030.html
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A recent article in the New York Times highlights the vulnerable and lonely feeling experienced by many nursing home residents who do not want to be in a facility, but have no choice. Such a plight serves to remind all of us being that alone and completely vulnerable to your caregivers is bad enough, but
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The link between poor care and understaffing at nursing homes has long been established – study after study, including one by the Institute of Medicine, show that insufficient numbers of nurse aides and qualified nurses lead to bad outcomes, yet our nursing homes remain critically understaffed – and patients suffer needless injury and death as
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Arbitrations in the nursing home context are popping up more and more as clients who have had loved ones abused come to me for advice. The problem arises because many admission contracts for nursing homes have arbitration provisions in them providing that if a dispute occurs between the resident and the nursing home that such
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Now is the time that you can do something to protect one of the most vulnerable populations – our elderly residents of nursing homes. There is legislation pending in Washington entitled the “Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act” which is designed to keep the elderly from being subjected to one-sided, industry driven arbitration contracts after
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I have often wondered how long it would take for people to realize what life in a nursing home looks like from a patient’s perspective. For those who think that nursing homes who put profit over patient care shouldn’t be punished, I wonder if they would be willing to do what these brave medical students
I am a diabetic. I am also a lawyer who focuses on nursing home abuse and neglect cases, and in that context I have seen and brought to light through litigation numerous instances of diabetes in the elderly being mismanaged in a nursing home setting. Diabetes is a complicated condition, and requires multifaceted approaches and
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