Posts tagged nursing

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

  Don Greiwe | July 20, 2009 11:02 AM | 3 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Recently, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released the results of an ongoing survey of nurses across the U.S., and the findings are grim. The survey received more than 15,000 responses from...

• Girard Nursing Home Fined for Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | August 29, 2007 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A nursing home in Girard, Illinois had abuse complaints lodged against it. Investigators found that the workers at Pleasant Hill Village Nursing Home was abusing residents. A fine of $25,000 was levied against the home. A February report by the Illinois Department of Public Health indicated the incidents might have started as early as August 2006.Aides allegedly poked one resident with a pin...

• Nursing Home Must Pay Damages for Prolonging Life

  Shannon Weidemann | April 07, 2007 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A jury in Palm Beach County has decided that a nursing home must pay $150,000 in damages to a woman's family after they did not follow her living will and advance directive. The 92-year-old woman had stated that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Workers at Morse Geriatric called paramedics and had her taken to the hosptial where she died six days later after having many...

• Nursing Homes Have Fire Safety Obligations

  Bob Carroll | October 21, 2006 3:21 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Fire in a nursing home obviously can be a disaster because of the immobility of many of the residents. It would be a guaranteed disaster if the nursing home falsified fire drill reports and appointed an untrained maintenance man to oversee fire safety training at the facility, leaving employees unable to handle the crisis. That is what is alleged to have happened in Nashville.Judge clears way...

• Resident Suffocated By Clogged Tracheostomy Tube

  Bob Carroll | August 22, 2006 6:18 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In the category of healthcare screw-up of the week:An Illinois jury has awarded more than $2.9 million to the family of a Healthcare and Retirement Corp. of America resident who died by suffocation when her tracheostomy tube became clogged (Sheila Albores, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Ana Carrasco, Deceased v. Healthcare And Retirement Corporation of America, d/b/a Manorcare Health...

• One Company's Nursing Home Abuse Record - Is "Blatant" Strong Enough?

  Bob Carroll | June 02, 2006 4:51 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Over at OpEdNews.com there is a lengthy article that details some of the most egregious nursing home misconduct imaginable. The disgusting incidents described are truly shocking. Amazingly, all of the patient abuse and neglect occurred at the facilities of one nursing home company, Beverly Enterprises.Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry Nowhere in...

• Nursing Homes Understaffed - Abuses Continue

  Bob Carroll | April 30, 2006 7:26 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Understaffing at nursing homes appears to be the underlying reason for continued problems and abuses according to a just-released national report examining nursing home abuse and neglect. The story is from FortWayne.com:Report IDs roots of elderly neglect"The Faces of Neglect: Behind the Closed Doors of Nursing Homes," commissioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform,...

• Florida's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

  Bob Carroll | April 18, 2006 6:18 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Every week I learn of an injury inflicted upon an elderly resident of a nursing home or assisted living facility in the State of Florida. Abuse and negligence often are the cause. When that is the case there is a need for our firm and other personal injury attorneys to step up and provide assistance. The effort frequently involves the filing of a claim for compensation. There are other...

• Flim-Flam On Nursing Home Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 11, 2006 7:25 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Nursing Home Residents Storm Tallahassee To Protest Legislature's Dishonesty - that should be the headline in newspapers throughout the State of Florida. The legislative flim-flam that took away their rights in exchange for promised improvements in nursing home care that will likely never occur should be recognized for what it was. It was a fraud, pure and simple. Read the story from the...