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A black or blue mark on the skin – what is that called? A bruise? An abrasion? A scratch? A pressure ulcer? What does it mean for your loved one in an acute care, hospital or nursing home setting, that he has abrasions, bruises, scratches or pressure ulcers? Each term means something very different –…

A Cleveland, Tenn., nursing home company has settled a lawsuit that accused it of neglecting its patients and allowing an elderly woman to lie in her own feces for hours at a time after back surgery. The woman, Betty Mae Hanzel of Hastings, developed an infection in her wound during her stay at the Life…

Senior citizens who do not have children to help care for them are less likely to have to go into a nursing home if they live in a state that spends more on home- and community- based services, researchers have found. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the finding in the May…

I hear it all the time, “we cannot hire more nurses to take care of residents because we just don’t make enough money!” More than one nursing home administrator has testified in depositions that there is “not enough money in the budget to hire more help because 60 – 70 % of the residents are…

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The Senate recently approved a drug safety bill which will double the number of government scientists assigned to find risky side effects in medicines that are already on the market in the United States. The bill will also create a computerized network to scan medical insurance and pharmacy records for signs of trouble with new…

We have written about it before but are regulators and consumers listening? Nursing homes, in an attempt to maximize profit over people, almost uniformly fail to hire a sufficient number of aides and nurses to provide adequate care of its residents. How can one or two nurse aides take care of 15 to 20 residents…

The state of Ohio has issued a second Type A citation to Baptist Convalescent Center in Newport after a resident who had become dehydrated at the nursing home died of renal failure on April 8, two days after being hospitalized. The citation, the most serious type the state employs, was issued April 26. It charges…

A Mustang broadsided Kathy Schroeder’s Hyundai sports coupe in an intersection, knocking her unconscious. She woke up wedged against the console, covered with an oily film. ‘I just remember my eyes and face burning,’ she said, ‘like bacon sizzling.’ She recalled telling the Los Angeles County Fire Department rescuers at the scene but said they…

The Food and Drug Administration ordered drug makers yesterday to add warnings to antidepressant medications, saying the drugs increase the risk of suicidal thinking or behavior in some young adults. The drug labels, which have included similar warnings for adolescents and children since 2005, will now apply to people younger than 25. The expanded warnings,…

There is no evidence to support the much-publicized notion that the tort system amounts to a lottery for injured plaintiffs, as President Bush and others have long maintained, writes Philip G. Peters Jr. in the May edition of the Michigan Law Review. If anything, the system appears to be biased against them. In Peters’ 42-page…