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If you have heard a facility does not provide quality care, don’t just let the rumors control your decision, investigate yourself! Here is how: www.medicare.gov – you can look at recent Medicare surveys Send a request for surveys taken by Virginia Department of Health. How? Send a Freedom of Information Act Request, to Virginia Department…

A recently released study reveals that costs for nursing homes and assisted living facilities have increased for a fifth consecutive year. The survey by Genworth Financial Inc., comes as baby boomers are approaching retirement and worry that they haven’t saved enough to cover day-to-day expenses as well as long-term medical care costs. The study found…

I am not yet at the stage where retirement is on my mind. But, if it is for you, you have a lot of work to do, and YES I mean you young 60 somethings… YUP – LISTEN UP. I know these conversations are not fun, but have them now! 1. Write a Will –…

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…