Dan Frith

The Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions of patients to Hermitage Health Center located in Elizabethton, TN. The state imposed a civil monetary penalty of $1,500 and recommended a federal civil penalty be imposed at $3,550 a day until the violations are corrected. A special monitor will be…

In our law practice we hear nursing home representatives, and their paid trial experts, take the position that pressure (or decubitus) ulcers just can’t be prevented in the elderly. This is a bunch of baloney and a recent study from New Jersey supports our view!The New Jersey Hospital Association’s (NJHA)…

Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News reported yesterday on the results of a recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The article on the study is entitled, “The Surgical Learning Curve for Prostate Cancer Control After Radical Prostatectomy.” The study concludes that as a surgeon’s…

We see many cases where a nursing home resident suffers multiple falls without significant injury. Finally, they have the inevitable “bad fall” and fracture a hip resulting in hospitalization and surgery. The resident often never recovers to their previous level of function.Now for the bad news, a recent study published…

More than a year has passed since the federal government changed the rules for qualifying for Medicaid assistance for long-term care, and experts in the field are still sorting out the implications for those who want to pass assets on to their children.The new rules made it tougher, for example,…

The daughter of an 82-year-old woman who died in a Chicago area nursing home in May filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the facility did not provide adequate supervision to prevent a fall that she claims led to her mother’s death.Teresa Thorp alleged in the lawsuit that Lemont Nursing and…