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Saturday, July 31, 2010

How Useful Is the Concept of "Failure to Thrive" in Care of the Aged?

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In an issue of American Family Physician, Robertson and Montagnini1 reviewed the challenges of caring for an aged patient with multiple prob...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Woman awarded $7 million in court case

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Jury holds Hillcrest Nursing Home responsible for former resident’s pain, suffering and medical expenses LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. — A jury awarded...

Large damages set in Phila. bedsores case

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In an highly unusual step for such a case, a Philadelphia jury yesterday leveled $5 million in punitive damages against Jeanes Hospital and ...

Jury awards $5 million punitive damages in nursing malpractice case

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A Philadelphia jury has awarded $5 million in punitive damages in a nursing home medical malpractice case. Just a week and a half ago the ju...

Nursing home owners can be liable in neglect cases

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A three-judge Superior Court panel has overturned an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge and declared that a local nursing home and its owne...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Hardee County Florida woman charged with elderly neglect

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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has announced the arrest of a Hardee County woman who has been charged with operating assisted living...

Jury Gives $114 Mil. in Winter Haven Nursing Home Abuse Case

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The verdict is one of the largest ever by a Polk County jury. Juanita Jackson died July 6, 2003, after staying at Integrated Health Services...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Decubitus Ulcer Treatment Pioneer

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How one nurse helped stop killer bedsores It sounds obvious today, but it took the work of an innovative nurse in the 1950s working with a g...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

UC-Irvine Center Shines Spotlight on Elder Abuse

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IRVINE – On any night in Orange County, a child or woman may suffer abuse, neglect or exploitation, while down the street a vulnerable elder...

UC-Irvine Center Shines Spotlight on Elder Abuse

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IRVINE – On any night in Orange County, a child or woman may suffer abuse, neglect or exploitation, while down the street a vulnerable elder...

Nursing Home Residents Voiceless in Kentucky

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http://www.kentucky.com/voiceless/

Nursing Home Abuse Investigations Delayed

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It's been 11 months since Johnson Mathers Nursing Home in Carlisle received the state's most serious regulatory citation in the May ...

Investigations into Nursing Home Abuse in Kentucky Can Take Years

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The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that an investigation into a Kentucky nursing home is still pending 11 months after the nursing home r...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

N. C. Nursing home faces lawsuit

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As a nurse heads to court on murder charges in the morphine-related death of a patient, her Chapel Hill nursing home faces civil malpractice...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Jury imposes maximum damages on Skilled Healthcare; nursing home chain faces upwards of $600 million for health code violations - ContraCostaTimes.com

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Jury imposes maximum damages on Skilled Healthcare; nursing home chain faces upwards of $600 million for health code violations - ContraCost...