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Caregivers and advocates for seniors arrived in D.C. held a demonstration on Monday outside the headquarters of private equity giant The Carlyle Group, which is taking over nursing home chain Manor Care Inc. for $6.3 billion. Nursing home workers, family members of patients and seniors advocates spoke about the need for safe staffing levels and…

Please… read a nursing home or assisted living facility contract before you, or any member of your family signs it.. WHY is this so important? The contract may state you give away your right to a jury. It might state you can only recover $10,000 in damages should the facility provide poor care to your…

Mentally ill patients are eligible for nursing home care paid for by Medicaid if they need 24-hour supervision or hands-on assistance. Nursing homes in Ohio are using a Medicare loophole to accept hundreds of mentally ill patients discharged from hospital psychiatric wards, spending millions of taxpayer dollars to house patients who often do not qualify…

For years, assisted living facilities in America “flew below the radar screen” of most state and federal regulators. Additionally, there were no resident advocacy groups established to look out for those people living in assisted living facilities. That is about to change! Fifteen elder care, elder law, and senior advocacy groups announced today the formation…

We have two open cases right now against pharmacies.Arizona Daily Sun Assistant City Editor LARRY HENDRICKS reports this week (read it in full here) – that an Arizona jury awarded $6 million last week to the family of a Coconino High School wrestling coach who died of a toxic drug interaction in December 2002. Decedent’s…

We have previously written about the use of hidden cameras, often called “Granny Cams” to document whether appropriate care is being provided to our loved ones who live in nursing homes. It now appears police are using this strategy to prove criminal conduct. The owners of a Cortland Nursing Home have been found guilty of…

Nursing home operators and their use of government dollars will come under closer scrutiny, according to details in the new Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) 2008 work plan. The OIG will review nursing facility cost reports and evaluate the government’s oversight of Medicare expenditures contained in the reports. My bet is the federal review will…

I was reading a case summary today, on how parents could recover for assault that occurred to their child. They recovered for their own emotional damages and the emotional damages experienced by their child. In Virginia, emotional distress claims must be brought WITHIN 1 YEAR. That means, from the date of the ACCIDENT you only…

An article in yesterday’s Washington Post: Long-Hidden Dangers?Early Exposure to DDT May Raise Risk of Breast CancerBy Rick WeissWashington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 9, 2007; Page HE01A new study has found a significant link between women’s exposure to DDT as young girls and the development of breast cancer later in life.The results are something…

Not a weekend goes by, when I am not asking in some social setting “What type of law do you practice?” Typically, I answer directly – “I sue nursing homes.” The last time I said this, the other person, a nurse, asked “I hope you sue the corporations and remind them they don’t hire enough…