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Virginia’s most profitable nursing homes – also some of the worst? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Virginia’s most profitable nursing homes – also some of the worst?

A little reminder: For profit healthcare is a thing in the United States. Tylenol makes money for Johnson & Johnson. Pfizer made billions on Zoloft before generic forms became available in 2006.  Your neurosurgeon may get a bonus this year, if he or she performs high dollar surgeries on patients or exceeds their RVUs.  Healthcare and…

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Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad? 150 150 Dan Frith
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Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad?

Starting in the 1970s, enterprising physicians began opening their practices after-hours to patients suffering minor ailments without an appointment. Patients avoided expensive emergency rooms, and they avoided long waits to see their family doctors. For the most part, the idea is a good one and there are about 7,400 urgent care centers in the United…

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HR 1215 – Congressman Goodlatte is putting corporations over people AND taking away state’s rights. Don’t let him. 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

HR 1215 – Congressman Goodlatte is putting corporations over people AND taking away state’s rights. Don’t let him.

      All – Much of my last two weeks has been spent researching a recent Bill that my Congressman Bob Goodlatte drafted and presented to the House Judiciary Committee in late February.    The Bill HR1215 – Protecting Access to Care Act 2017 (ironic name) would have a severe and negative impact on…

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Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence 150 150 Dan Frith
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Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence

There is currently a bill in Congress (HR1215 – Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017) put forth by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (Chairman, House Judiciary Committee) that would significantly limit the rights of patients who have been injured by a nursing home, drug manufacturer, medical device company, hospital, or doctor. Nationally, medical errors are the third leading…

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Do I have a case? How much will it cost to get my records? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Do I have a case? How much will it cost to get my records?

  Potential medical malpractice clients ask us many important questions.  Here are two of them: Do I have a case?  How much will it cost to get my medical records?     The first is not as easy to answer and the latter is thankfully getting much easier to answer.  Let us start with the…

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So why are the laws written to protect companies not patients in Virginia Nursing Homes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

So why are the laws written to protect companies not patients in Virginia Nursing Homes

So, I get asked the following questions all the time: What are the laws to protect seniors in Virginia nursing homes?   Answer: NONE (ok, slight exaggeration. There are some federal laws and some basic licensing requirements for facilities)  What is the rule about nurses / patient ratios in Virginia nursing homes?    Answer: NONE…

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Prostate Cancer: an all too common story 150 150 Dan Frith
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Prostate Cancer: an all too common story

The Roanoke Times just published an article from “To Your Good Health.” An informative and educational column on infectious diseases and public health issue written by Dr. Keith Roach, a highly respected physician at Weill Cornell Medical College.  Today’s column was based upon a wife’s report of how her husband’s doctors failed to provide him…

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For liberty and justice for all 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

For liberty and justice for all

You’ve said those words thousands of times if you attended primary or elementary school in the United States. You said them to conclude the Pledge of Allegiance wherein we state we are one Nation, under God, with liberty and justice or all.  But what does that mean? Likely it means something different to everyone who utters…

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New Guidelines on Sepsis 150 150 Dan Frith
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New Guidelines on Sepsis

Sepsis.  What is it?  It is bad and it is life-threatening and it effects more than 1 million patients a year!  The Mayo Clinic defines sepsis as an infection in which the patient exhibits at least two of the following symptoms, plus a probable or confirmed infection:      1.  Body temperature above 101 F (38.3…

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A Complex Diagnosis: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

A Complex Diagnosis: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Recently, we have heard from more people who end up with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) after medical malpractice.  Because we are seeing more of it, and because it is not always immediately recognized, we want to lay out some of the things to watch for.   To start, CRPS is considered a chronic pain…

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Hospitals in Southside and Southwest Virginia don’t come highly recommended 150 150 Dan Frith
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Hospitals in Southside and Southwest Virginia don’t come highly recommended

We all rely upon “word of mouth” in locating a good building contractor, dentist, plumber, painter, doctor, or lawyer.  What about finding a good hospital? If word of mouth from patients who were treated in that hospital is considered, several Virginia hospitals would fare poorly.  Virginia Business magazine’s January issue contains an article on this…

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No staffing requirements in Virginia Nursing Homes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

No staffing requirements in Virginia Nursing Homes

This week I shared a fact on our firm’s Facebook page: Virginia does not having minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes.  This means, it is technically legal for a facility to accept 120 residents, and only have 1 RN, 2 LPNs and 2 CNAs that can care for these patients per 12 hour shift.  On…

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