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.
read moreThis 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…
read moreIt 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…
read moreI 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.
read moreTwo 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…
read moreI reported several days ago about a family who decided to send their aging parents to India to receive better nursing home care at lower cost. Well, it appears some Americans are just driving across our southern border to Mexico for the same reason. USA Today reports that more and more elderly Americans are moving…
read moreThe state Department of Health suspended admissions at a Hartsville, Tenn., nursing home for numerous violations found during an investigation and annual inspection. Sun Valley Home for the Aged, a 15-bed facility, can no longer admit new patients until the conditions are corrected, according to a release from the Tennessee Health Commissioner, Susan R. Cooper.…
read moreWe wrote a short blog yesterday about a nursing aide pleading guilty to criminal neglect in a Rochester, New York nursing home, the Jennifer Matthew Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Well… it looks like another former nursing home employee has now pleaded guilty to neglecting a 70-year-old patient with dementia. Sounds like a bad situation to…
read moreWashington Post Staff writer, Shankar Vedantam wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post “Long before word recently broke that white referees in the National Basketball Association were calling fouls at a higher rate on black athletes than on white athletes, and long before studies found racial disparities in how black and white applicants get called for job…
read moreThe use of video cameras or “granny cams” to record poor care in nursing homes is a good thing! An ex-employee of a Rochester, New York nursing home has admitted she neglected a patient in a case that included the use of a hidden camera. Tammy Devos, 43, who worked as a certified nurse’s aide…
read moreMost conservatives would say that state, not federal law, should address issues such as tort reform, medical malpractice, legal procedure etc. I agree these issues should not be decided in Washington, but a close examination of state laws reveals how very different we are. In Virginia, you can file a Medical Malpractice lawsuit without having…
read moreThis one is going to be interesting! The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died amid flash flooding during Hurricane Katrina are set to stand trial today on negligent homicide charges. The owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home, Salvador and Mabel Mangano, are the only individuals charged with the responsibility of deaths from…
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