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Planning on a visit to the Nursing Home this EASTER or PASSOVER? Taking your grandparent out on Mother’s Day in May or Father’s Day in June? This is a great opportunity to pay attention to their progress / health concerns or needs. How are they feeling? Getting better, or worse? What do you notice? Its…

On the same note as my prior post, Massachusetts attorney, Eric Parker, has written an article about the decision on confidentiality for settlement agreements. You can read his article here.

This week’s news contains two bad reports on nursing home care in our neighboring state of North Carolina. First, the Charlotte Observer reported that the conditions at Carolina Medical Center – Union Smith Nursing Center in Monroe, NC constituted “immediate jeopardy to resident health and safety.” State officials conducted an investigation of the facility after…

The gallbladder is a small sac under the liver that stores and concentrates bile, a fluid that helps the body digest fats. After a meal, the gallbladder contracts and releases bile through the common bile duct into the small intestine. A common but major problem with the gallbladder occurs when a gallstone becomes stuck in…

Ever wonder why states don’t enact tougher laws to protect the infirm and elderly in nursing homes? Like minimum staffing ratios which require a sufficient number of nurses and aides to take care of the residents. One reason may be that politicians don’t want to pass laws that might “bite the hand that feeds them.”…

Everyone is talking about – national and local news, radio, tv…. The American Cancer Society has published new guidelines that require a select group of women, to get mammorgrams and MRIs for early breast cancer detection. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032702326.html. What women should fall into this select group? Women at high risk because of a family history of…

NEW FLASH TODAY –SAN FRANCISCO- Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has received the state’s most severe citation and fine after the California Department of Health Services determined that the poor care of an 82-year-old resident led to her death.State Public Health Officer Dr. Mark Horton announced Monday that the skilled nursing facility in San…

Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC) in Danville, Virginia serves the cities of Martinsville and Danville, along with most of Southside Virginia. This once proud and accomplished hospital has a total of 350 staffed beds and gross revenue in excess of $375 Million Dollars. A couple of years ago the hospital was purchased by LifePoint Hospitals,…

What is a thromboembolism? Just a fancy medical term for “blood clots” and they can be life threatening if they make their way to your lungs or brain. There are basically two types: DVT’s and PE’s. A DVT is a deep venous thrombosis and is a blood clot embedded in one of the major veins…

This statement should not surprise anyone but does serve as confirmation for what we all know. In a study involving over 15,000 cognitively impaired nursing home patients, researchers from the International Research Consortium on Wandering found that one in five were prone to aimless wandering through nursing home facilities, putting themselves at increased health risk.…