Lauren Ellerman

I have been trying to read a Virginia Blog every week – docwatch – today, the author reports about a south west Virginia nurse who recently lost her license (in June) when she forced liquids into a nursing home resident, while restraining the resident – the result, the resident started…

Roanoke, VA – Seminar, Open to the public, August 27, 2007 at 2:00pm at the Higher Education Center, downtown Roanoke. Topics to include:Resident’s Rights – What rights you loved one has in a Nursing Home;The Seven Deadly Sins of Nursing Homes (Common patient errors and what you can do to…

Looking for a nursing home? How do you find one? What do you look for?AARP has great resources on their website – read more here.

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.…