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This is encouraging news! An article in USA Today reports the percentage of elderly living in nursing homes has declined. The downturn reflects the improved health of seniors and more choices of care for the elderly. Approximately 7.4% of Americans aged 75 and older lived in nursing homes in 2006, compared with 8.1% in 2000…

Great article in Washington Post today – Read it here. “Each year, an estimated 1.7 million hospital patients develop infections, each of which adds thousands of dollars to the cost of treatment. And some patients pay the highest price: Hospital infections kill approximately 99,000 Americans a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is…

Got your attention didn’t I? Sexual relationships between a medical professional and his/her patient is a “no – no.” Patients can be extremely vulnerable to becoming entrapped into a sexual relationship with their physician. The patient sees the physician as a caring individual with superior knowledge and someone who can help resolve their physical, emotion,…

The families of 23 nursing home patients who died in a bus explosion as they fled Hurricane Rita have settled their lawsuits against the nursing home that evacuated them. Lawyers for the families and for Sunrise Senior Living Services Inc., of McLean, Va., said terms of the settlement were confidential. Brighton Gardens, a Houston area…

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…