Lauren Ellerman

Just this week I wrote a blog about choosing a nursing home in Virginia and doing online research on Medicare’s website. Today, a colleague introduced me to a great new resource which allows users to compare nursing homes and the level of care required by patients, with great ease. Check…

Today the Supreme Court of the United States is hearing a case about consumer contracts and specifically, arbitration agreements. Dan and I have written about arbitration agreements at length in both the employment and health care context.Here is an article about nursing homes and arbitration. Here is another article about…

Someone typed those words into goggle the other day….. And what did they find?Not much I fear.There is no list of nursing homes published with the best records. Nor is there a list of facilities with the healthiest or happiest residents and fewest accidents. Nursing home are much like any…

Sometimes Dan and I write to point out issues that need solving in Virginia’s long term care industry. Sometimes Dan and I write to tell stories about elder abuse and neglect.Sometimes we write just to share relevant information about medical and long term care issues.Today I am writing to share…

Last year we had a tremendous winter in SW Virginia. By tremendous, I am referring to the snowpocalypse that set in on Western Virginia, MD, NC, etc. The Mid-Atlantic states apparently had as much snow as parts of Alaska.We however, are not used to such a deluge of the white…