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This case comes to us from Illinois and involves an “elopement.” An elopement is simply the act of a nursing home resident leaving the facility without the permission and knowledge of the nursing home staff. In Taylor v. Manorcare Health Services a 75 year old resident suffered from dementia and had a propensity to wander.…

Read the full response, here. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is astatement from Alan Rosenbloom, President of the Alliance for QualityNursing Home Care, in reaction to the Sunday, Sept 23, New York Times storyentitled, “At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing:” “The nursing home data analyzed by the New York Times, and…

Every time I turn around another friend has decided to have LASIK (laser in situ keratomileusis) surgery to help their vision. LASIK surgery could probably help my vision but the damn procedure just scares me! I would never have both eyes operated on at the same time. Further, it concerns me that we don’t know…

Big news this weekend – recent study finds nursing homes owned by investor groups, provide lower quality care that those not owned by investor groups. I am not at all surprised. We have long discussed the competing interest of stockholders, and patients. Patients require the best care possibility, and morally speaking, price should not be…

A lawsuit filed against Greenbrier Manor, a Greenbrier County, West Virginia nursing home, claims the facility’s “abusive” care caused malnutrition and dehydration of an elderly, incapacitated patient who also suffered numerous falls. The resident, Eloise Gates, 84 years old, lost 20 pounds or 12 % of her body weight in less than three months at…

A few days ago we wrote a short article on a Johnson City, Tennessee nursing home owner who was being tried for Medicaid fraud. Billie Anderson, the owner/operator of Anderson Health Care in Gray, TN was charged with operating the facility without a Medical Director. Medical Directors are doctors and operate as the chief medical…

Nurses, are the cornerstone of American healthcare. And this is not only my opinion, but look at any long term care facility, hospital or doctor’s office and you will have to agree. Most of the healthcare provided today, is by nurses. So why aren’t they paid more? Why aren’t more hired to help at nursing…

We hear all the time in our nursing home abuse cases that the facility just doesn’t make enough money to hire a sufficient number of nurses to properly care for the residents. The owners argue that most of their residents are Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid just doesn’t pay enough to really provide good care. This…

We place our loved ones in a nursing home in order that they may be safe and receive needed medical care. Well, how about this report from West Virginia? Police said a mentally handicapped woman was sexually assaulted inside a Moundsville nursing home. Moundsville police say Roy Reed Sheldon (22) sexually assaulted a 57-year-old mentally…

I spent a few hours yesterday researching “elopement” cases in long term care facilities…. Yes, I mean accidents that occur when a resident leaves the facility, unattended. Many long term care residents are in good physical shape, such that they can walk and ambulate without assistance. If your loved one is a known wanderer (meaning,…

It is a sad state of the world, when states have to create laws that prohibit abusing an elderly patient of a long term care facility… but because abuse happens, states have responded. Today I read a published case from Missouri where the Court held a nursing home administrator yelling at a resident in public,…