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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Malpractice Insurance Suits Rampant But Few Plaintiffs Get Pay Outs

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According to this study, only 1.6% of Doctors who had a claim that resulted in an lawsuit payment.This fact and the fact that only 1% of all...

Hospital Errors Affect About 1 In Every 3 Patients In The USA

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Hospital Errors Affect About 1 In Every 3 Patients In The USA
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Jurors deliberated nursing home case

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Jurors heard recent closing arguments in Polk County Georgia for both sides of a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Rockmart nursing ho...

Nursing Home Neglect alleged in Investigation - Denver Colorado

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Commerce City, Colo. -- Following a series of CALL7 Investigative reports, the state health department has fined a troubled nursing home in ...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Care home's neglect was fatal, lawyers argue 

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Workers in an understaffed Charleston nursing home failed to properly care for an 87-year-old woman who had stayed ther...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Massachusetts Guide to Stopping Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Available

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Hamill Law Office of Quincy, MA. announces that they have produced a Free Advocacy Guide for Massachusetts victims of Nursing Home abuse ...

Care home providers at the centre of abuse scandal close a second property

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A second care home owned by the company at the centre of allegations of abuse of vulnerable patients is to close, it was announced on Wednes...

Carlyle Nursing Unit to Appeal $91.5 Million Medical Negligence Verdict

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"The Carlyle Group nursing home subsidiary, HCR ManorCare Inc., will appeal a $91.5 million verdict awarded to a man whose mother spent...
Monday, August 08, 2011

Heartland must pay $91.5M in fatal neglect case - West Virginia

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"A Kanawha County jury on Friday awarded an elderly woman's family $91.5 million in damages from a Charleston nursing home , after ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements - Use a Power of Attorney to defeat?

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Nursing Homes are routinely denying wrongfully injured consumers access to the Courts by inserting mandatory arbitration agreements into the...

Massachusetts Nursing home residents risk losing bed with Medicaid cut

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Massachusetts nursing home residents who are briefly hospitalized or leave to visit their family risk losing their bed under a state fundin...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

ManorCare's neglect was fatal, West Va.lawyer argues in Court

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"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Workers in an understaffed nursing home failed to properly care for an 87-year-old woman who had stayed there f...

Why are Hospital Errors so Rampant in the U.S.?

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Excellent ARticle in the Washuington Monthly about the cause of so many medical errors in the U.S. The Article ponders this issue: "...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Winnipeg nursing home resident dies from neglect

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WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Health Department says that negligent nursing home  staff so thoroughly failed to treat an elderly woman who later...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Black Nursing Home Residents have more Pressure Sores - JAMA

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Nursing Home Neglect : In a study published this month in the prestigeous Journal of American Medicine: "... Nursing Home pressure ul...