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Patients are waiting longer and longer to be seen in America’s emergency rooms…and some are dying while they wait! A recent report from the journal Health Affairs confirms what we all have experienced. Emergency rooms are crowded, under-staffed, and the time from arrival to examination by a physician is too long. The report concludes that…

If I had money to burn, I would create a public service announcement, based on the Visa “Priceless” adds..It would have some interesting statistics, like these: Cost of maintaining an elderly person in a nursing home – $7,000 a monthMoney the nursing home spends on care givers – $8.00 an hourMoney the nursing home spends…

This case report comes to us from Idaho but could, and does, occur everywhere. The family of a man who wandered away from a Gooding nursing home five years ago has sued the facility’s parent company. In the lawsuit, stepsons of former Magic Valley Manor resident John Henry Davis allege the home and Northwest Bec-Corp…

We reported here several weeks ago the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disclosure of the 54 worst nursing homes in the United States. That list my friends is just the “tip of the iceberg.” Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Bush administration to disclose the identity of more troubled nursing homes, saying earlier efforts…

A few years ago in Virginia, a law was proposed to require certain number of staff in nursing home, per number of residents. GREAT IDEA I thought. Well, those for-profit healthcare providers didn’t agree, and so there is no law. An attorney in California filed a lawsuit this week, Sun Mar Healthcare Inc., alleging that…

The Carriage Hill Nursing Home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia was dropped from the Medicare and Medicaid programs in June of 2007 after state surveyors found a host of problems, from unsafe conditions to poor record-keeping. A resident died in May when he was strangled by his nurse-call cord. The facility, owned by MediCorp Health System,…

Rumor, or a study in the UK rather, has it that the secret to a longer life is exercise, eating better, moderate drinking and NO SMOKING. Really? Not at all surprised to read that – but the interesting part of the study was that someone doing all of those things, lived on average 14 years…

We have previously discussed the goings on with Seven Hills Health Care Center in Richmond, Virginia. A facility operated by the Hospital Authority of Richmond and located in Henrico County. The same facility which announced last month it was closing after losing eligibility for Medicaid and Medicare dollars. The funding was withdrawn after repeated inspections…

Well – I am excited to report, as the Gen. Assembly Session opens today in Richmond, some members of the House are off to a good start! HJ 79 – PROPOSED FOR 2008 by Phillip Hamilton, addresses the issue of pharmaceutical sales: Barring physicians or other health care practitioners from prescribing an alternative brand of…

I have preached and preached on this topic. If you have a medical allergy – tell the doctor, tell the nurse, tell the pharmacist – tell everyone. YES, it is their job to write it down, record it and act accordingly. It is also their job not to give you a medication you have a…

Which nursing home is right for my father? Will my mother be happy and get good care at this facility? These are questions we all will face at one time or another and here is a book which provides some good guidance and needed answers. Nurse and nursing home administrator V.K. Lynn (a pseudonym) stresses…