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AARP Joins Fight To Preserve Right To Jury Trial

Jonathan Rosenfeld
October 30, 2008 09:43

AARP, filed a 'friend of the court' brief in a wrongful death lawsuit pending in New Mexico.  The brief is intended to provide supplement information to the court regarding an injured nursing home resident's ability to pursue a nursing home negligence lawsuit in court as opposed to binding...

New York Nursing Home Nurses Charged With Criminal Neglect

Jonathan Rosenfeld
October 08, 2008 09:20

Four employees of the Medford Multicare Center for Living in Suffolk, NY have been charged with criminal neglect and falsifying business records.  New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the charges following six weeks of video surveillance at the nursing home in 2007.  The...

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Episode Of Sexual Abuse By Nursing Home Employee With A Questionable Past Highlights The Need For Nationalized Database For Healthcare Workers

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 22, 2012 14:03

Like most perspective employees, people seeking a position in a nursing home likely fill out an application, perhaps submit a resume and answer a few questions from the facility administrator or other managerial employee.  Pretty simple and matter of fact.  In the majority of situations,...

Delay In Providing Care For Patient With Pressure Sore Results In Fines Against Facility

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 21, 2012 15:33

There's no doubt that preventing pressure sores is much easier than healing them.  Unfortunately, once developed in, a pressure sore requires months (if not substantially longer) of medical care that is usually painful, expensive and downright de-humanizing.   In reality, pressure sores...

Failure To Detect Problems With Oxygen Tank Results In Lawsuit Against Nursing Home

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 20, 2012 13:07

While nursing homes are indeed medical facilities that have a duty to care for their patients medical needs, I am always dumbfounded by the number of errors that seem to get routinely made--- many of which have nothing to do with specialized medical skills--- just a lack of plain common sense....

Elder Abuse Charges Brought Against Nurses For Their Role In The Death Of A Nursing Home Resident During Short-Term Admission

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 19, 2012 14:04

When complications arise during a nursing home admission due to the negligence of nursing home staff, the matter may be pursued civilly in the format of a nursing home lawsuit--- but rarely is the matter pursued criminally.  Obviously, much of the hurdle to a criminal prosecution of a nursing...

Nursing Home Injury Laws: Minnesota

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 18, 2012 12:00

Number of nursing homes in Minnesota: 387 Patients living in Minnesota nursing homes: 29,871 Occupancy rates of Minnesota nursing homes: 91.3% Average number of deficiencies at each Minnesota nursing home: 11.6 Percent of Minnesota nursing homes with serious deficiencies for actual harm to patient:...

Another Nursing Home Patient Dies Related To Violence Perpetrated By Peer

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 16, 2012 14:38

Disturbingly, during the past few weeks, we've seen a rash of nursing home violence sweeping across the country as frail residents are becoming victims of the the aggressive acts of violent patients at their facilities.  This time, an Indiana nursing home patient died four days after suffering...

Lawsuit Blames State For Keeping Disabled Children In Nursing Home

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 15, 2012 14:43

Families of 250 disabled children have filed a Federal Court lawsuit against the State of Florida alleging that the state violates terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act and a Supreme Court ruling by keeping the children in nursing homes as opposed to allowing them to live at home or in the...

Meth Cooking Nursing Home May Be Shut Down By State

Jonathan Rosenfeld
March 14, 2012 14:26

Last week we discussed one of the more unusual-- if not alarming-- situations involving nursing nursing homes that I've come across in a long time, how a fire erupted at an Ohio Nursing Home that was suspected to be related to a visitor cooking up a batch of methamphetamine in a patients...