The majority of nursing home residents are vulnerable to abuse due to either their weakened physical or mental health. The abuse can manifest itself in various forms: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and now...financial abuse.
A rash of sexual abuse within nursing homes has been sweeping the country. One only has to read the extensive blogs, news articles, and first hand accounts to see that the number of cases is rising. According to expert research, sexual abuse accounts for about 2% of nursing home abuse cases. Unfortunately, only about half of all instances of sexual abuse within a nursing home come to light; in many cases, nursing home officials either brush aside allegations of abuse or try to cover-up evidence of the abuse to avoid legal sanctions.
Four Western New York nursing homes, Fairport Baptist Homes, The Brightonian, Park Ridge Nursing Home and Wayne Health Care, have been punished with Federal and State civil and/or criminal sanctions in the past 6 months.
"Chemical restraint" is when a person is force-fed powerful psychotropic drugs to control their behavior. They are only legal for a nursing home to use if they are needed to keep a resident from harming himself or others. Overdosage of these drugs can result in death or severe neurological damage. Research has shown that up to 15,000 nursing home patients die each year from the improper use of these drugs. Tax-payers foot the bill for these drugs in most cases.
A lawsuit was recently filed against the Sunrise Assisted Living Facility, a nursing home in Rochester, New York for the 2007 death of resident, Donald R. Salli. The suit alleges that the nursing home was negligent in both failing to adequately supervise its residents, and for failing to provide Mr. Salli with necessary medical treatment after he was attacked.
The number of nursing home complaints for wrongfully discharging patients in these ways has doubled over the past ten years. Dumping and Transfer Trauma are two types of nursing home abuse that, although often overlooked, are quickly becoming an epidemic. Dumping and Transfer Trauma are similar in that they are two types of abuse that stem from wrongfully discharging a nursing home resident that is in desperate need of care.
The misuse and poor design of feeding tubes is leading to countless deaths, including those of pregnant women, unborn children, and infants. However, both the Food and Drug Administration and the manufacturers of the tubes are dragging their feet when it comes to removing them from circulation.
The Midwifery Modernization Act has now become law as of last Friday. Although many previously thought that it would give midwives an increased ability to independently practice, it may not do anything at all unless midwives open their own independent practices.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will soon be issuing a set of guidelines to make it easier for women to find doctors that will allow them to give birth without Caesarean section.
It's a strong possibility that your doctor is prescribing your child the hormone unnecessarily due to his or her own personal attitudes concerning height. A new study, led by Dr. J. B. Silvers of Case Western Reserve University, showed that some doctors may be just as swayed by their own attitudes about being short as by data, suggests a new study.
According to a new study, "The role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end-of-life care", published yesterday online in the Journal of Medical Ethics, doctors who are atheist or agnostic are "twice as likely" to make medical choices that can end a terminally ill patient's life more quickly.
According to a report in The Times Union, Michael and Lisa Carey, the parents of a 13-year-old autistic boy who died while in state care, have recently settled a lawsuit they had filed against a private facility the child had previously attended.
Have a sprained ankle, need stitches, or feel a cold coming on? Don't want to wait for hours in the emergency room? You may not have to thanks to new systems being put in place by some area hospitals. Hospitals all over the country are now starting to use billboards, text messaging, and other types of technology to inform patients of the amount of time they will have to wait to be seen once in the ER.
Apologizing for a medical mistake may save doctors thousands of dollars and the stress of a malpractice lawsuit. According to a new study, recently published in The Annals of Internal Medicine and conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and Brigham and Women's Hospital, doctors that admit a medical error, apologize, and offer compensation are less likely to be sued by their patients.
The Medical Malpractice Insurance Pool of New York State (MMIP) affords insurance to those doctors that are the worst of the worst in New York State and don't qualify for tradiational medical liability insurance. These doctors can't obtain regular malpractice insurance because they have either been sued numerous times, been sanctioned multiple times by the Medical Board, or have lost their hospital privileges temporarily in the past due to negligence.
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