Recent Study Finds Nursing Home Infection Rates Rising In U.S.
October 11, 2014
A study conducted by the Columbia University School of Nursing that investigated infection rates in nursing homes in the United States over a five-year period (2006 to 2010) found increased rates of infections involving urinary tract infections (UTIs), septicemia, viral hepatitis, wound infections[...]
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Nursing Homes May Manipulate The Medicare Star-Rating System
August 30, 2014
Medicare employs a five-star quality rating system for nursing homes throughout the United States. Nursing homes that receive a five-star rating are supposed to be the best in the nation – only about one-fifth of the more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States have received a five-sta[...]
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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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Mississippi Appeals Court Grants Nursing Home New Trial
April 3, 2014
On March 25, 2014, the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi (“Appeals Court”) granted a new trial to the defendant nursing home that was held responsible for a wrongful death verdict in the amount of $1,213,300 (the amount of the verdict was reduced to $513,300 pursuant to[...]
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Massachusetts $2M Nursing Home Verdict For Sexual Assault
December 19, 2013
On December 17, 2013, a Middlesex Superior Court (Massachusetts) jury returned its $2,014,000 verdict in favor of an 87-year-old nursing home resident, who suffers from dementia and Huntington’s disease, for her alleged sexual assault that occurred in July 2011. The verdict was against the[...]
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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Trach Tube Error
July 13, 2013
On July 3, 2013, a Tennessee medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $15.2 million in favor of a 23-year-old man who suffered catastrophic brain injuries when his doctor removed his breathing tube (tracheostomy tube) and failed to timely or adequately respond when he had problem[...]
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