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True or False – you have a Right to Healthcare in the United States? Answer, False. It is not a right. You can get turned down, and refused care. Today’s Wall Street Journal writes about a Texas woman who had Leukemia. She went to top Cancer Hospital MD Anderson, where she was told her insurance…

By now every parent should know about the danger lead paint poses to young children. Lead is a soft metal that has been used for years in manufacturing glassware and plumbing fixtures, and in the past it was contained in gasoline and paint. Children may swallow harmful amounts if they play in areas where peeling…

Healthgrades a leading hospital rating organization, recently released its fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals study. If your kids brought home these grades you would not be very happy! It finds from 2004 through 2006 there were 238,337 preventable deaths among Medicare patients. That cost the program and ultimately taxpayers (you) $8.8 billion. The…

Please don’t watch this if you get upset easily… We hear stories like these, all the time in Virginia. It is not just a problem out West If you expect Abuse in Virginia, call your County Dept. of Social Services, ask to speak to Adult Protective Services, call our office, or the Department of Health…

Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women, according to recent studies as reported in today’s Washington Post. And what does that mean afterall, especially in light of technology, advances in medical care, medicine, and all the news on healthy living? It means something is wrong, and as residents of SW Virginia, we need to do…

There is a federal law that basically prohibits attorneys from telling families how to prepare for Medicaid. Medicaid in most states, is a state-sponsored program that provides health coverage for those without assets… The catch 22 is that nursing homes are so expensive, that almsot everyone who enters private pay, will spend all their hard…

Beth Macy wrote an eye-opening article in yesterday’s Roanoke Times newspaper. Her findings: Virginia ranks 47th in the nation in Medicaid funding of home care. Unlike states that have tried to shift funding toward home care and away from nursing homes, Virginia spends just 27 percent of its Medicaid budget on home health and personal…

For most people, home is a haven and a refuge from the rest of the world. However, your home can also be the most dangerous place you go. I’m talking about lead, mostly lead dust, from the paint on your pre-1978 house’s walls and windows. Lead-based paint was banned in 1978 by the Consumer Product…

Palmyra Health Care Center in Clarksville, Tennessee has until April 25 to submit a plan of correction on multiple safety violations and the Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions to the nursing home. Why? Because eighteen deficiencies — four of which were deemed as immediate jeopardy — were discovered during a complaint investigation…

Our clients often ask why the opposing lawyers are reviewing each page of their medical records – some of the records are over 10 years old and are not related to the case. Here is what they are looking for: 1. Past medical conditions and symptoms similar to those currently being claimed to have resulted…

I was at an event this week when conversation turned to a local, large, “non-profit” hospital. A Friend told me he suffered a post-surgical hematoma, he knew what it was, and went to the local ER for treatment. Two hours into the treatment, when he had not yet been seen by a triage nurse, or…