Dan Frith

I hear it all the time, “we cannot hire more nurses to take care of residents because we just don’t make enough money!” More than one nursing home administrator has testified in depositions that there is “not enough money in the budget to hire more help because 60 – 70…

We have written about it before but are regulators and consumers listening? Nursing homes, in an attempt to maximize profit over people, almost uniformly fail to hire a sufficient number of aides and nurses to provide adequate care of its residents. How can one or two nurse aides take care…

The state of Ohio has issued a second Type A citation to Baptist Convalescent Center in Newport after a resident who had become dehydrated at the nursing home died of renal failure on April 8, two days after being hospitalized. The citation, the most serious type the state employs, was…

A Mustang broadsided Kathy Schroeder’s Hyundai sports coupe in an intersection, knocking her unconscious. She woke up wedged against the console, covered with an oily film. ‘I just remember my eyes and face burning,’ she said, ‘like bacon sizzling.’ She recalled telling the Los Angeles County Fire Department rescuers at…

The Food and Drug Administration ordered drug makers yesterday to add warnings to antidepressant medications, saying the drugs increase the risk of suicidal thinking or behavior in some young adults. The drug labels, which have included similar warnings for adolescents and children since 2005, will now apply to people younger…

There is no evidence to support the much-publicized notion that the tort system amounts to a lottery for injured plaintiffs, as President Bush and others have long maintained, writes Philip G. Peters Jr. in the May edition of the Michigan Law Review. If anything, the system appears to be biased…

A top Milan nursing home official has resigned a week after the state Department of Health suspended admissions of new patients at the facility. The Health Department has cited problems, including resident neglect, at Douglas Nursing Home. New admissions were suspended April 27 at the facilityA complaint survey the Health…

I want to make those of you living in Virginia who read our Legal Medicine blog aware of a tremendous advocacy group – TLC4LTC. This charitable organization is committed to achieving quality care for nursing home residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Here is a brief summary of this great…

In searching the web, I found a post recently on the Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog where a man in Louisiana recently filed a lawsuit alleging his mother was neglected during her stay at Heritage Manor in Houma, LA prior to her death on Christmas of 2004. The son alleges…