Lauren Ellerman

We would be ashamed if our local hospitals ran ads with “specials / discounts / or “coupons,” wouldn’t we? Open the paper and you see a coupon, for “1 cardio-cath, get the angioplasty free” – or, half off mammograms until Labor day… Perhaps the ads would reminded us that hospitals…

MontVue Nursing Home has denied culpability in its legal response to a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against it last month.“Shenandoah resident Joyce Smith sued MontVue’s parent company Shenandoah Valley Care Inc. after her mother, Joyce Earline Bigelow, a former patient at MontVue, died of complications from a fall…

I bet if you think about it, some member of your family, or a close friend, has had to deal with Virginia’s Mental Health System. Either a child with severe disability needs to attend a state or private school, a teenage girl with suicidal thoughts, young adult male with schizophrenic…

Knowledge is power….. and there are few areas where knowledge is more important, than the law, legal rights, and resources when making long term care decisions.Dr. Gary Oberlender, board certified geriatric physician, joins the Frith Law Firm in presenting a FREE SEMINAR, June 24, 2008 – at 5:30 pm. We…

The Washington Post reported this week, that older people with dementia who take anti-psychotics, are more likely to end up in the hospital or even die, new research shows.So what are families to do – accept sometimes dangerous aggressive behavior, or use anti-psychotic medications? Many would argue there is no…

I just read an article about a Memphis Tenn. nursing home resident that received 3rd degree burns when hot coffee fell on her. Did the CNA mean to pour hot coffee on the lady? I seriously doubt it- but her carelessness, caused the resident great pain – physical and emotional,…

House measure would outlaw nursing home arbitration clausesMay 23 2008Nursing home operators would be unable to subject residents and prospective residents to binding arbitration clauses under a bill introduced Thursday afternoon in the U.S. House. When a companion bill was introduced in the Senate in April, consumer groups enthusiastically praised…

Sunrise Nursing Home cover up death!Sunrise staff told Chase’s son that she had died in her sleep. The son said he was told his mother had breakfast, was left alone at one point, and the aide returned to find she had died peacefully in her sleep.The nurisng home lied!The report…