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Sadly, we review more than a few pressure ulcer cases each year. A pressure ulcer is essentially a bedsore that can develop because too much pressure is placed on the skin. Often pressure ulcers form on heels, sacrums (buttocks) and other areas that non-walking long term care residents sit for hours. Family by law –…

There was a letter to the editor in the Roanoke Times newspaper several days ago about “retail health clinics.” For those readers unfamiliar with the term, it basically means a nurse or physician’s assistant working in a retail store and seeing/treating patients with minor medical problems. The author of that letter, Dr. Mark Schleupner, correctly…

State regulators have refused to issue a license for the West Virginia Veterans Nursing Home because of a host of problems, including failure to meet requirements for accident prevention and infection control. Problems cited in the report include failure to meet requirements for therapeutic diets, care of pressure sores, vision and hearing, activities of daily…

The Virginia Board of Medicine has taken a rare step in reprimanding two Fairfax, Virginia doctors for their failure to provide appropriate care during the delivery of a new born. The Board found that Dr. Evelyn Anna Ruelaz and Dr. Regina Burton failed to adequately assess a pregnant patient with a history of excessive bleeding…

Here is a disturbing report: Black nursing home residents in Maryland and Virginia are more likely than white residents to be sent to hospitals for dehydration, poor nutrition, bedsores and other ailments because of a gap in the quality of in-house medical care, according to a new study. Researchers affiliated with Brown University’s medical school…

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…