Dan Frith

The Virginia Board of Medicine has taken a rare step in reprimanding two Fairfax, Virginia doctors for their failure to provide appropriate care during the delivery of a new born. The Board found that Dr. Evelyn Anna Ruelaz and Dr. Regina Burton failed to adequately assess a pregnant patient with…

Here is a disturbing report: Black nursing home residents in Maryland and Virginia are more likely than white residents to be sent to hospitals for dehydration, poor nutrition, bedsores and other ailments because of a gap in the quality of in-house medical care, according to a new study. Researchers affiliated…

Patients are waiting longer and longer to be seen in America’s emergency rooms…and some are dying while they wait! A recent report from the journal Health Affairs confirms what we all have experienced. Emergency rooms are crowded, under-staffed, and the time from arrival to examination by a physician is too…

This case report comes to us from Idaho but could, and does, occur everywhere. The family of a man who wandered away from a Gooding nursing home five years ago has sued the facility’s parent company. In the lawsuit, stepsons of former Magic Valley Manor resident John Henry Davis allege…

We reported here several weeks ago the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disclosure of the 54 worst nursing homes in the United States. That list my friends is just the “tip of the iceberg.” Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Bush administration to disclose the identity of more troubled…

The Carriage Hill Nursing Home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia was dropped from the Medicare and Medicaid programs in June of 2007 after state surveyors found a host of problems, from unsafe conditions to poor record-keeping. A resident died in May when he was strangled by his nurse-call cord.The facility, owned…

We have previously discussed the goings on with Seven Hills Health Care Center in Richmond, Virginia. A facility operated by the Hospital Authority of Richmond and located in Henrico County. The same facility which announced last month it was closing after losing eligibility for Medicaid and Medicare dollars. The funding…

Which nursing home is right for my father? Will my mother be happy and get good care at this facility? These are questions we all will face at one time or another and here is a book which provides some good guidance and needed answers.Nurse and nursing home administrator V.K.…