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Thursday, August 12, 2010

CA nursing home fined $100,000 after man suffers fatal head injury

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A Northern California nursing home was fined $100,000 after its staff allegedly failed to prevent a patient from falling twice and suffering...

CA nursing home fined $100,000 after man suffers fatal head injury

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A Northern California nursing home was fined $100,000 after its staff allegedly failed to prevent a patient from falling twice and suffering...

Legislators fail to help Iowa elderly in Nursing homes

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Legislators fail to help elderly in Iowa Nursing Homes homes

Kentucky Nursing Home in Trouble

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Attorney General Jack Conway announced, Hazard Nursing Home Incorporated and its owner, Sheila Noe, 61, are charged with failure to report s...

Falls in Nursing Homes Facts

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How big is the problem? * In 2003, 1.5 million people 65 and older lived in nursing homes.3 If current rates continue, by 2030 this numb...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Medical Error List of Never Events includes Pressure Ulcers

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The National Quality Forum calls these 28 medical errors "never events," meaning, of course, that they should never happen. Most o...
Monday, August 02, 2010

Jacksonville nursing avoids being shut down

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The scheduled closure of a Jacksonville nursing home is on hold indefinitely while an appeals court decides its fate. Glenwood Nursing Cente...
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...