Indianapolis VA Medical Center Sued For Medical Malpractice
May 19, 2014
A federal medical malpractice lawsuit was filed earlier this month alleging that a 60-year-old former Marine suffered unimaginable horrors during treatment at the VA Medical Center in Indianapolis after he sought medical help for problems urinating. His medical malpractice administrative claim was t[...]
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Nursing Home Falls
May 9, 2014
Too many elderly and infirmed residents of nursing homes in the United States suffer preventable falls that result in further physical or mental deterioration, including fractures that may require surgery or even an untimely and unexpected death. Many nursing home falls are foreseeable and preventab[...]
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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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The 5 Most Common Preventable Nursing Home Adverse Events
April 22, 2014
According to the February 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” five physicians were contracted to review th[...]
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