Lauren Ellerman

I just came across this great blog today – http:// docwatch.wordpress.com – its a Doctor’s Watch Blog. One recent post/article, is on nursing home nurses receiving expensive gifts from residents. Hmm, sounds a little fishy to me. Great blog – I would check it out.

Two years later, we still hear about Hurricane Katrina and its lasting effect on so many. Today, I woke up to a news cast on a New Orleans Nursing Home that refused to evacuate residents, despite numerous warnings. The result? Thirty Five elderly residents, unable to leave on their own,…

Washington Post Staff writer, Shankar Vedantam wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post“Long before word recently broke that white referees in the National Basketball Association were calling fouls at a higher rate on black athletes than on white athletes, and long before studies found racial disparities in how black and white applicants…

There is a great NPR show, Market Place, where the host always says “Let’s do the numbers.” Well, someone has done the numbers for us in the big business corporate nursing home industry. What if you took the money a CEO would make (or shareholder dividends) and put it toward…

Dan blogged this week about the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. He spoke about the group, and its financial goals.Below is a link to an editorial from the Palm Beach Post about the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. They have been very vocal about Medicare payments to nursing…

This one takes the cake. Today I read a case summary of a Minnesota case where a nurses aid yelled the following at a resident (please note, it is profane): “I forgot to put my [f___ing] gloves on and it’s your fault, now you’re going to [s___t] all over my…

Probably once a week, a family will tell our firm, the “cost” of litigation is too great. What do I mean? Although a family may have what we would call a meritorious case, they do not have the money to pay for experts, court reporters, copies etc. And I understand.…

Today’s Washington Post has a great article from the AP:By ANDREW BRIDGESThe Associated PressMonday, July 30, 2007; 9:51 AMWASHINGTON — The widely used diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from the market because of heart risks, a federal scientist said Monday.Those risks, combined with no unique short-term benefits in helping…

My daily ritual (no matter where I am) is reading the Roanoke Times, my local paper. This morning I was sort of delighted – a call to action in Roanoke. Healthcare where profit is the goal – is that really the best we can do?Joe Kennedy writes “We’ve read story…

If you can dig through all the Michael Vick articles in the Washington Post, you will run across an article published yesterday by Jenna Johnson, Post staff writer, entitled “Youth Hospital Faulted for Abuse.” Read the full article here.Ms. Johnson cites a report published this week by district mental health…