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When the relationship ends – who gets what?
When the relationship ends – who gets what? Lauren Ellerman

Business relationships are like romantic relationships in many ways. When the relationship is over, you must determine who gets what, and who is entitled / owns what. Listen to our recent podcast on how to divide the stuff (so to speak) when you leave a business for another. http://frithlawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/when-employment-ends-who-gets-what-2.mp3  

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Criminal charges in Virginia nursing home abuse / neglect cases
Criminal charges in Virginia nursing home abuse / neglect cases 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

I just read a local news story from Abingdon Virginia where police are investigating the death of an elderly patient of Grace Health Care of Abingdon, a nursing home and long term care facility in Washington County. Though very little is known at this time about the patient, her death,…

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Over-Medication in nursing homes
Over-Medication in nursing homes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

For years our industry has been aware of a terrible and heart breaking issue related to over-medication of elderly patients in long term care facilities. Let’s face it – a CNA cannot properly care for 30 residents that are mobile, walking, fall risks, who need help getting to the bathroom,…

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Xarelto, Coumadin or Warafin management and physician mistakes
Xarelto, Coumadin or Warafin management and physician mistakes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

I have heard it before: “This new medication is so far superior to what we used in the past. It’s easier to manage, blah blah blah blah blah.” While I love the optimistic health care providers have about new drugs, I have and will remain a skeptic. Coumadin has long…

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Good doctors get sued sometimes, but bad doctors get sued multiple times
Good doctors get sued sometimes, but bad doctors get sued multiple times 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

This week I read about a doctor in our area who was sued four times in 1 calendar year. My friends Russ Updike and Nolan Nicely (of Covington Virginia) represent the families who were victims of this physician. Peter Vieth, attorney and writer for Virginia Lawyers Weekly (a weekly lawyer newspaper)…

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Ask for the policies and procedures when your loved one is in a Virginia nursing home
Ask for the policies and procedures when your loved one is in a Virginia nursing home 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Sometimes, law makers do act with a desire to protect the public. Through Virginia law does not have laws that address staffing in nursing homes (meaning the number of patients one nurse or CNA can serve), there are written rules and laws that affect how licensed nursing homes should be…

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Pharmacists against execution thankfully also against negligent manufacturing practices that killed innocent Virginians
Pharmacists against execution thankfully also against negligent manufacturing practices that killed innocent Virginians 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

This morning the American Pharmacist Association (motto – Improving Medication Use. Advancing Patient Care) published a Policy and Position Paper discouraging pharmacists from creating the drug cocktails used by states in executions. Their reasoning, which I think makes sense, “Pharmacists are health care providers and pharmacist participation in executions conflicts…

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How to file a complaint about a nursing home
How to file a complaint about a nursing home 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

I am grateful we live in a country where consumers have a choice of the products and services they buy. Occasionally, you may live in a rural or remote part of the country where you only have a few choices – one car dealer, one dentist, one grocery store, one…

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Loss of a child – is the doctor at fault?
Loss of a child – is the doctor at fault? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

There isn’t anything worse than losing a child. And it doesn’t matter when it happens – it rips your heart out and is hard to recover. In fact, it is hard to even breathe after it happens. And in many circumstances, nothing could have prevented the loss. No test, no…

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How to plan so Medicaid can pay for your loved one’s nursing home.
How to plan so Medicaid can pay for your loved one’s nursing home. 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

The title of this blog is almost ironic. Medicaid, under Virginia law, will pay for the long term care of certain elderly patients who do not have the financial resources to pay for the needed care themselves. Amazingly, families with resources (homes, stocks, cars, and retirement plans) often assume that if…

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