Dan Frith

A few days ago we wrote a short article on a Johnson City, Tennessee nursing home owner who was being tried for Medicaid fraud. Billie Anderson, the owner/operator of Anderson Health Care in Gray, TN was charged with operating the facility without a Medical Director. Medical Directors are doctors and…

We hear all the time in our nursing home abuse cases that the facility just doesn’t make enough money to hire a sufficient number of nurses to properly care for the residents. The owners argue that most of their residents are Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid just doesn’t pay enough to…

We place our loved ones in a nursing home in order that they may be safe and receive needed medical care. Well, how about this report from West Virginia? Police said a mentally handicapped woman was sexually assaulted inside a Moundsville nursing home.Moundsville police say Roy Reed Sheldon (22) sexually…

Haldol is a drug used to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders such as schizophrenia. It is also prescribed to control tics (uncontrolled muscle contractions of face, arms, or shoulders) and the unintended utterances that mark Tourette’s syndrome. In addition, it is used in short-term treatment of children with severe…

I have always believed that Virginia’s Birth Injury Law is a bad idea. The process is cumbersome and many infants who should receive medical assistance are rejected. On top of being a bad law…it has been woefully under-funded. The program is $128.9 million short of cash needed to provide lifetime…

David Barton Smith of Temple University in Philadelphia recently published the results of his study of U.S. government data on 1.5 million patients in 14,374 nursing homes in 2000, covering close to 90 percent of all nursing homes and residents. His conclusion is that elderly and ill blacks in the…

Bedsores, pressure ulcers, decubitus ulcers…whatever name you use describes a horrible condition which can be very painful, become an entry point for infection and can lead to death!The St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois pipes in Olympics-style theme music over the audio system every two hours. The music is…

Experience counts. The only problem is that, as a consumer of medical care, it is almost impossible to find out if your doctor has a good success record with the surgery he or she is proposing for you. That problem may be getting closer to an answer.Last week, a federal…