Dan Frith

I know this is a different type of post for me but I wanted to share my thoughts on a recent book I read entitled “Chasing Life.” The book was written by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and the Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN.Dr. Gupta’s…

Many people have experienced being stuck in the arm with a catheter (or needle) in order that a health care provider can administer needed fluids, antibiotics, etc. Pretty simple process right? Not always as this report from Minnesota shows us in great detail.The patient was 55 years old and was…

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in an artery in the lung. Once the artery is blocked oxygen levels in the blood drop, and blood pressure in the lungs rises. It is a life-threatening condition which is demonstrated by this case report from New York.The patient was 42 years…

Have you ever felt this way about a member of your family who is diabetic and resides in a nursing home? Well, a reader of the Diabetes Health magazine certainly felt this way and you need to read the recommendations from Mary M. Sullivan RN, and a Diabetes Clinical Nurse…

I just finished reading an article in Virginia Business magazine about the ever increasing costs for nursing home care. The article’s title, “Retirement Dream Could Become a Nightmare” says it all!The article reports the average daily rate for a private room in a Virginia nursing home is $133 while the…

The Washington Post newspaper reported yesterday that the Carlyle Group will purchase Manor Care, a nursing-home operator, for $6.3 billion, the latest in a recent string of multibillion-dollar deals involving the DC private-equity giant.Manor Care, which traces its roots to a single nursing home in Wheaton 48 years ago, has…

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) is the nation’s largest provider of nurses professional liability insurance coverage, with over 650,000 nursing professionals insured in the program today.Take a look at this collection of paid claims involving nursing negligence or malpractice and reported by NSO.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare filed a complaint Thursday against the Holland-Glen Nursing Facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges the facility has been operating without a nursing facility license and its services “substantially depart from generally accepted professional standards of care, thereby exposing…