California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
March 19, 2012
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
March 4, 2012
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
February 19, 2012
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]
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Most Hospital Medical Malpractice Events Are Unreported
January 14, 2012
A new report regarding a study of Medicare patients who were injured in hospitals found that only one in seven hospital errors were reported. And when the medical errors and hospital accidents were reported and subsequently investigated, hospitals rarely changed their practi[...]
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Drugging Our Nursing Home Elderly: Is It Medical Malpractice?
December 6, 2011
In testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging on November 30, 2011, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) provided chilling evidence that elderly nursing home patients with dementia are being given antipsychotic drugs for reason[...]
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Texas Example Of A Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Claim
November 18, 2011
Nursing homes provide medical care to residents who need such care for short-term rehabilitation or long-term care. When nursing homes negligently fail to provide necessary care, or negligently provide care that they are required to provide to residents, then the nursing homes may be subject to med[...]
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150th Consecutive Daily Blog (And Counting)
August 1, 2011
Today’s blog represents the 150th consecutive daily entry appearing in this blog. Over 500 hours have been devoted to researching and writing the blogs that have appeared here. We have addressed the official statistics regarding medical malpractice claims in the U.S. (March 5) as well as i[...]
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