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Roanoke, VA – Seminar, Open to the public, August 27, 2007 at 2:00pm at the Higher Education Center, downtown Roanoke. Topics to include: Resident’s Rights – What rights you loved one has in a Nursing Home; The Seven Deadly Sins of Nursing Homes (Common patient errors and what you can do to prevent them); and…

On August 20, the Wall Street Journal published letters to the editor addressing a previously published opinion piece by Ronald Trowbridge, an adjunct scholar with the Abigail Alliance, and Steven Walker, co-founder of the Alliance, about a decision earlier this month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court…

A Pennsylvania nursing home resident who died days after a fall has been identified as a 64-year-old woman. Judith Bliger, of Blair County, fell out of a mechanical lift at Laurel Crest Nursing Home earlier this month. She was treated and released from the hospital immediately following the incident. She died three days later. Sadly,…

This was reported in the New York Times yesterday:“WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — In a significant policy change, Bush administration officials say that Medicare will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur in hospitals, a move they say could save lives and millions of dollars.Private insurers are considering…

USA Today reports that owners of the St. Rita nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a New Orleans-area nursing home, ignored televised and government warnings of the growing strength of Hurricane Katrina and failed to evacuate 59 frail, elderly residents which resulted in the deaths of 35, a prosecutor told a jury last week.The residents,…

These are certainly the “Dog Days of Summer!” Temperatures in the 90s and 100s have been common throughout much of the nation the last few weeks. It is important to keep in mind the elderly during these particularly hot days as they are more susceptible than most people to dehydration and other heat-related complications. Heatstroke…

Looking for a nursing home? How do you find one? What do you look for?AARP has great resources on their website – read more here.

This case report comes from Maryland. The patient, 27 years old, was taken to the hospital by his mother due to feeling ill. He was admitted to the hospital and the emergency room doctor called the patient’s internist to advise him of the admission and his patient’s condition. A doctor in training at the hospital…

It seems you cannot go a month without reading or hearing about a widespread outbreak of the norovirus or other gastrointestinal disease in a nursing home. My opinion is that these preventable outbreaks are the result of unclean facilities and a staff/administration not adequately trained to quickly identify an ill resident and how to prevent…

I just came across this great blog today – http:// docwatch.wordpress.com – its a Doctor’s Watch Blog. One recent post/article, is on nursing home nurses receiving expensive gifts from residents. Hmm, sounds a little fishy to me. Great blog – I would check it out.

Two years later, we still hear about Hurricane Katrina and its lasting effect on so many. Today, I woke up to a news cast on a New Orleans Nursing Home that refused to evacuate residents, despite numerous warnings. The result? Thirty Five elderly residents, unable to leave on their own, drowned in the wheelchairs and…