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28 Apr 2014, 2:42 pm by Pearl Griffin
The median rate for an assisted-living facility ($42,000) was exceeded in Washington, D.C, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Alaska, Delaware, and Connecticut. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 9:59 pm by Marcus Epstein
”  For example, the agency recently expressed support for a proposed law in Massachusetts which would enable nurse practitioners to render unsupervised services that are currently limited to doctors. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 2:29 pm
Boston Nursing Home Abuse The Alzheimer’s Association says that close to 120,000 people suffer from Alzheimer’s in Massachusetts—a figure that is expected go grow a lot with baby boomers living longer than previous generations. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 10:13 pm
Thankfully, the Alzheimer’s Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and other nursing home patient advocates argued that the time frame was actually too long. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 10:25 am
Leape probably is most notable for his 1994 article, "Error in Medicine," in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [White Coat/BirdStrike] Massachusetts Nurses Association goes all Venezuelan on hospital governance [Ira Stoll] “Can a healthcare provider make an arbitration agreement with patients for resolving future malpractice disputes? [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 1:30 pm
The money will be split among J&J employees from Pennsylvania, California and Massachusetts. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 9:56 pm by Jon Gelman
“When companies put profit over patients’ health and misuse taxpayer dollars, we demand accountability,” said Associate Attorney General Tony West. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 3:04 am by Ben Vernia
In a plea agreement resolving these charges, Janssen admitted that it promoted Risperdal to health care providers for treatment of psychotic symptoms and associated behavioral disturbances exhibited by elderly, non-schizophrenic dementia patients. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 11:16 am by Breakstone, White & Gluck
Related:A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care, Pro Publica. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 12:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The new final rule generally will require that the approximately two million home care workers such as home health aides, personal care aides, and certified nursing assistants will qualify for minimum wage and overtime. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 12:59 pm
Timothy Hale, Charles Hardin, Jay Hendelman, and Benjamin Raby, the Kramer OB-GYN associates, and nurses Mary Conway, Amy Gabale, Rita Pomeroy, Helen Farrah, and Ronda Forand as responsible parties in the incident. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 9:57 pm by Daniel Richardson
  For example, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (MSJC) in 2005 adopted the “First Complaint” Doctrine, which allows only the recipient of a victim’s first complaint (regardless of timing) to testify about the fact and details of the complaint. [read post]
24 Aug 2013, 9:25 pm by Bill Marler
  The SBH inspector and town nurse were informed by the D’Angelo’s district manager at the store that the MDPH had authorized the store to reopen if all employees had been given shots and if the sick employee stayed away from work until healthy. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 5:35 am by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
  Most recently, the Massachusetts Nurses Association contracted for limitations on the number of patients nurses could care for at a time, and National Nurses Organizing Committee – Florida bargained for acuity staffing grids in its nurses’ contracts. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 1:24 pm
Unfortunately, ignorance, negligence, understaffing, exhaustion, inexperience, poor training, emergency situation pressures, and inadequate systems and procedures can cause doctors, nurses, and other staff to cut corners or skip key steps that might have prevented an infection and/or death. [read post]
8 Jun 2013, 10:15 am
In an earlier blog post, our Boston nursing neglect and abuse lawyers talked about the recent report released by the Alzheimer’s Association, which one in three elderly persons suffers from Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia when they die and that deaths caused by dementia went up 68% between 2000 and 2010. [read post]
2 Jun 2013, 6:01 am by John H Curley
The Massachusetts Nurses Association asserted that there was no evidence of any misconduct on the part of the grievants warranting termination, that they had been denied due process by the hospital's failure to notify them of their alleged deficiencies, and that, in any event, any misconduct should have been subject to progressive discipline.Granting the Union's request for a directed verdict at the end of the hospital's case, Arbitrator Dunn agreed with MNA, and sustained… [read post]
21 May 2013, 7:53 am by Rich Vetstein
At least 745,000 older adults now live in such communities, according to the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. [read post]