Dan Frith

Friendship Retirement Community in Roanoke, Virginia is currently dealing with 13 cases of the norovirus illness and 89 of their residents have contracted this highly contagious stomach bug since mid December of 2007.My law firm handled several infectious disease cases against this nursing home and each case revealed a lack…

The number of nursing homes in the U.S. that were cited for placing residents in “immediate jeopardy” rose 22% from 2000 to 2006, according to a study by USA Today. The newspaper, in an analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said inspectors in 2006…

Rape is a terrible crime under any circumstances but when an elderly nursing home resident is the victim…it is even worse! How can one human being be so evil as to take sexual advantage of an elderly and infirm person? It is the worst type of elder abuse!Well, this very…

I live in Virginia and our state does a fairly good job investigating complaints of neglect and abuse in Virginia nursing homes. I do believe the office which investigates these complaints is under-staffed and over-worked but acknowledge they do the best they can. While Virginia may get a passing grade…

Clarence Brown was a resident of Marmet Health Care Center from April 27of 1996 to May of 2007. Clayton Brown claims that while in the care of the facility Clarence Brown suffered several personal injuries and damages. Brown was admitted to Marmet Health Care Center in 1996 at the age…

As our readers are aware, at this blog we post comments and articles on issues and topics of interest to American consumers of health care. We also spend a great deal of time reading other blogs which focus on the state of health care in America. Recently, we ran across…

There was a letter to the editor in the Roanoke Times newspaper several days ago about “retail health clinics.” For those readers unfamiliar with the term, it basically means a nurse or physician’s assistant working in a retail store and seeing/treating patients with minor medical problems. The author of that…

State regulators have refused to issue a license for the West Virginia Veterans Nursing Home because of a host of problems, including failure to meet requirements for accident prevention and infection control. Problems cited in the report include failure to meet requirements for therapeutic diets, care of pressure sores, vision…