For most women, breast surgery is often one of the first courses of treatment for breast cancer. It often begins the path to being cancer-free. However, surgery is not always the best option for treatment. … Read More »
Posts Categorized: Nursing Home Abuse
Woman Sues Nursing Home For Sexual Orientation Abuse
While staff at nursing homes may be responsible for many cases of abuse and neglect, there is another kind of abuse that is taking place in long-term care facilities. That is resident-on-resident abuse. A 2014 … Read More »
Updated Rules For Dialysis Treatments Released By CMS
One of the fastest growing groups of patients requiring dialysis care is those who are aged 75 and older. For many of the elderly receiving dialysis, their care is done through either long-term care facilities … Read More »
Assessing Dehydration Is Difficult According To New Report
When a recent nursing home death attributed to dehydration made national headlines, some nursing homes and parent companies began trying to find a way to accurately assess dehydration. Elderly people may be particularly susceptible to … Read More »
Untreated Foot Blister Leads To Nursing Home Death
For residents in long-term care facilities, conditions inevitably come up that require treatment above and beyond the long-term care they may be getting. Colds, bedsores, and other common infections may be common, but they generally … Read More »
Fine To Nursing Home Reduced Due To Changing Administration Rules
The Trump administration has not been lauded for its stances on imposing fines to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. In fact, many in the industry believe that the lessening of fines and continuing … Read More »
Georgia Faces Nursing Shortage
Nursing homes rely on a number of staff members to provide care for both their long-term and their short-term residents. Many of these staff members are simply nurse’s aides or administrative staff members, but there … Read More »
Terrible Problems Discovered At
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offer a website that compares nursing homes and gives them ratings so that loved ones can make informed decisions for the care of their elderly family members. However, … Read More »
Nursing Home Punished For Neglecting Patient With Two Broken Knees
Among the elderly population, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries. The statistics are grim. An elderly American dies from injuries sustained in a fall every 19 minutes. Further, an elder … Read More »
Nursing Home Ratings Can Be Deceiving
The Center for Medicare Services (CMS) has a rating system that they use to help people decide upon the best nursing homes for their loved ones. Ratings from 1 to 5 stars are given based … Read More »
