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…and that is a bad thing! We have shared with you horror stories from all over the country about the poor care provided by nursing homes…some of those stories taken directly from the cases we handle for residents and their families here in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. What is being done to improve this…

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/01/State/Last_insurance__fix__.shtml Wow – Now I understand the concern that lawsuits cause increase insurance premiums for physicians. I believe the real reason insurance rates increase are because insurance companies want to keep their profit margins high, but that is irrelevant to a new trend in Florida. Doctors ask their patients to sign a release, prior to…

The New York Times published an article today on the increasing popularity of programs where non health care providers are hired to provide care for declining loved ones. Sure, I could have helped my grandmother turn over in bed, take her medications, and made her meals and kept her company – but wouldn’t it be…

I thought the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) job was to make sure prescription medications were safe and effective! If so, why it is such big news that the FDA says it plans to step up efforts to remove unapproved drugs from the market? An accelerated removal of unapproved drugs will apparently take place this…

The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a series of articles on the abuses which befall residents in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. These same problems exist in our fair state of Virginia. Read the first installment of the article here.

Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is one of the most devastating conditions of older age. Currently affecting nearly 7 million individuals in the United States and 24 million worldwide, dementia leads to total loss of memory and the inability to function independently—making it one of people’s greatest fears of aging. Delirium is an acute state of…

Talk about an unnecessary tragedy! A 76 year old Alzheimer’s patient wandered away from an Indiana nursing home and was found last week …frozen to death. The nursing home, Bradner Village Health Care, is located near Marion, Indiana. The primary cause of the resident’s death was hypothermia. Read the fully story here. Nursing homes must…

The Bush Administration is proposing cuts to programs that benefit or protect long term care beneficiaries, including almost $25 billion from Medicaid over the next five years and $1 million from the long term care ombudsman program. The Administration’s FY 2008 budget proposal also asks Congress to cut Medicare rate increases for skilled nursing facilities…

Every few days while the Virginia General Assembly is in Session, I check up on my elected officials to see what exciting new laws have been passed. Generally, I am not in favor of greater governmental control that often comes as a result of the “purse strings”… but there are a few exceptions. I don’t…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602260.html This article will upset you. Woman wakes up after surgey to realize part of her uterus has been removed. Did she know she was going in for a hysteroctomy? YES… but didn’t have the reading ability to read the papers she signed regarding the surgery. If you are reading this blog, then I am…