Dan Frith

Seven nursing home employees who tested positive for tuberculosis are suing Pinecrest Hospital located in Beckley, WV. The lawsuit claims the state-run nursing home in Beckley allowed bacteria from the highly contagious disease to escape an isolation ward when it installed wall air conditioning units in 2001. The suit alleges…

Many elderly experience cognitive decline as they age and sometimes the cognitive decline progresses to dementia. Dementia is defined as a significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning. Nursing home residents suffering from dementia require a proper treatment plan…

Folks, my law firm represent nursing home residents and their families in cases of abuse and neglect against the nursing home industry. We have written many articles in Legal Medicine about the horrendous care provided to some residents. We have also written here, and on our firm’s web site about…

A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina’s floods may never see the document.The trial judge ruled the…

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) recently published its biennial report covering the many facets of long-term care and independent living in America. Published biennially since 1992 by the AARP Public Policy Institute, the Across the States series was developed to help inform policy discussions among public and private…

On August 27, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final regulations prohibiting physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain items, services and tests provided by businesses in which they or their immediate family members have a financial interest. These rules protect beneficiaries from receiving services they may…

A former Tulsa, Oklahoma nursing home aide has been sentenced to six years in prison for scalding two disabled residents. Paula Drew was a nurse’s aide at the Green Park Nursing and Rehab Center. She allegedly placed each resident in an overheated shower last March without checking the water temperature.…

Northfield Place, a nursing home in the Whitmore Lake area, was one of four Michigan nursing homes under investigation for allegations of health care fraud and poor patient care, state and federal authorities said this week. Ciena Healthcare Management, the company that owns the four nursing homes and 26 others…