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- Nursing Home Fails to Seek Emergency Care For Resident
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- Feeding Tube Mistakes During Pregnancy Lead to Death and Despair
- Despite New Law, Midwives May Still Need Practice Orders to Practice Safe Medicine
- New Guidelines May Help Prevent Unnecessary Caesarean Sections
- Can you sue for your child being born?
- New Link Found Between Cerebral Palsy and Fertility Treatments?
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Nursing Home Negligence
Click to Learn About a Scam Nursing Home Residents Must Watch Out For!
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.Sexual Abuse Not Uncommon Within Nursing Homes
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.State and Federal Legal Action Taken Against Western New York Nursing Homes
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.Nursing Homes Using Tax Dollars to Restrain Residents
"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.Nursing Home Fails to Seek Emergency Care For Resident
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.Dumping and Transfer Trauma: Wrongful Discharge Abuse on the Rise
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.New Report Confirms Inadequate Staffing Leads to Nursing Home Abuse
Understaffing may be the number one cause of negligence within nursing homesNursing Home Abuse Caught on Camera in North Troy!
Fourteen workers at Troy nursing home charged with endangering the welfare of elderly residents and felony falsification of nursing home recordsNew Law requires disclosure about nurse to patient ratios
What is the nurse-to-patient ratio at your hospital? How many are registered nurses? Now you can ask those questions and the hospital has to tell youBirth Injury
Feeding Tube Mistakes During Pregnancy Lead to Death and Despair
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.Despite New Law, Midwives May Still Need Practice Orders to Practice Safe Medicine
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.New Guidelines May Help Prevent Unnecessary Caesarean Sections
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.Can you sue for your child being born?
There is a unique type of medical malpractice suit you may not know about - "wrongful birth" lawsuitsNew Link Found Between Cerebral Palsy and Fertility Treatments?
New Link Between Fertility Drugs and Cerebral PalsyOB/GYNs oppose midwife act
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is lobbying against legislation that would grant midwives in New York more autonomyPreventable maternal deaths from childbirth much higher in New York than National Average!
New York to examine every maternal fatality arising from childbirthDo lawsuits improve patient safety? McCabe settlement is proof
How do medical malpractice lawsuits improve patient safety? McCabe settlement against Albany obstetricians provides the answerVaginal Birth After Cesarean Section--Safe or Not?
Women want to hae a baby naturally even after a cesarean section. Why are many doctors unwilling to perform VBACs?Labels:
Why it only takes 60 seconds to evaluate your birth asphyxia case?
Why birth asphyxia cases take seconds, not minutes, to evaluateGeneral
Are Short Doctors Unnecessarily Prescribing Growth Hormone to Children?
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.Do Doctors' Religious Beliefs Color Their Medical Decisions?
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.Is Settlement Enough In Local Autism Abuse Case?
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.An Innovative Way to Cut Down On Emergency Room Waiting Time
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.Discover Why A Doctor's Apology Is Worth A Thousand Words
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.Doctors Still Able to Obtain Liability Insurance After Being Sanctioned Multiple Times
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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