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23 Apr 2009, 7:23 am
  Doctors and therapists say the Nintendo Wii is a huge hit with senior citizens by helping with motor skills and mental acuteness. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 3:15 am by Patrick A. Malone
The battle to reduce the sky-high cost of hospital care may have created its own unforeseen and harmful consequence: By hastening to get patients out of traditional hospitals and into skilled nursing facilities and long-term care centers, doctors and policy-makers may be contributing to a medical nightmare — serious infections acquired in health care institutions. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 3:29 am by Jonathan Rosenfeld
  Observation of patients and individual charts revealed a facility teetering on the edge of disaster with vulnerable patients continually not receiving the skilled nursing care set forth in their care plans and as prescribed by their doctors. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 7:21 am by Jeff Rasansky
The victim’s family filed a civil lawsuit against the nursing home (The Rehabilitation & Wellness Centre of Dallas), and doctors who treated the victim stated that is was “undeniable that Ms. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 6:30 am by Michael B. Stack
  Maybe this doctor responds quicker when you give the questions to their physician assistant, or to their nurse, instead of going right to the doctor. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 6:41 am by Robert Kraft
Read the entire article from the Associated Press.The post Unvaccinated Staff Eyed in Rising Nursing Home Cases, Deaths first appeared on Kraft Elder Law. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 11:03 pm
A recent article in The Providence Journal notes that although doctors in almost every state are required by law to report suspected elder abuse of their patients, hardly any of them do, even if they fear that their silence may subject an elderly person to continued abuse at the hands of a caregiver or in a nursing home. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 7:26 am by Rasansky Law Firm
Many doctors and advocates for elderly nursing home residents believe that a lack of comfort and in some cases outright nursing home neglect is provoking this agitated behavior. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 11:52 am by Caitlin Lentz
For purposes of this paragraph, “clinical instruction” means education provided by faculty in a clinical setting in a graduate program leading to a master’s or doctoral degree in a clinical nursing specialty area. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 4:24 pm
Doctors found second-degree burns on the hands and thigh of the girl, who has severe cerebral palsy and can't communicate. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 6:00 am
Because the nursing home staff didn't monitor a change in the woman's condition after the doctor upped her anticoagulant prescription, the state said they missed warning signs that could have saved the woman's life. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 6:00 am
In my many years in Healthcare I know that Doctors are looked upon with awe and admiration, sometimes irritation, but never has anyone mistaken a Doctor for a Coder, until now.The GAO has put out a report that patients are not utilizing their Patient Portals. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 11:31 am
While it is ludicrous that this resident was ignored for over two hours the resident had orders from her doctor stating that she must be connected to a ventilator machine at night. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 11:00 am
This issue of nurse and doctor responsibility was at the center of a recent Kentucky nursing home abuse lawsuit involving an elderly resident's injury at a Louisville nursing home. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 5:08 am by Ray Mullman
If someone chooses to leave a nursing home against a doctor's advice, the decision simply has to be documented. [read post]