Dan Frith

Police in Cincinnati, Ohio have charged three employees of the Price Hill Nursing Home with patient neglect. Police received a call around 1:45 a.m. Monday morning from a resident inside the home saying he had been left alone. Investigators checked and found the three workers had vacated their posts at…

The NBC Nightly News ran a story on December 11 detailing the rise in the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease – a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. Even more alarming is the…

We have previously written about the increasingly popular gastric bypass surgery for the morbidly obese patient. Now, surgeons at Duke University Medical Center have developed a “scoring system” based upon 5 risk factors to predict which gastric bypass surgery patients would be at the highest risk of death during or…

What is it like waking up everyday in a nursing home? Take a minute to read an article entitled “Embedded” published in the December 9th American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on-line magazine. The link is http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/embedded.html.

The patient, age 65, went to his doctor in Florida in order to stop smoking. The doctor ordered, among other tests, a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Test to screen for prostate cancer. The test revealed a PSA level of 119 – a high level and very suspicious of prostate cancer.…

The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina. It works in much the same way that the lens of a camera focuses light to create an image on film. The bending and focusing of light is also known as…

Obviously, there are a number of safety issues with any nursing home. However, here are two simple but important areas not to be overlooked:1. Ask the Director of Nursing or Administrator if the staff receives annual flu shots. Vaccinating employees of nursing homes against influenza helps protect residents, even those…

Most people assume that having bed rails on a nursing home or hospital bed is a good thing. The assumption is that bed rails will prevent the patient from falling out of bed and suffering serious injury. This assumption is wrong – sometimes dead wrong!Bed rails can increase danger in…

The title of today’s article is not boastful – it is accurate and truthful! The National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) is the best, most effective advocacy group for nursing home residents in America. NCCNHR was formed because of public concern about substandard care in nursing homes and…