Haider Warraich is a cardiologist, researcher, and writer at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. Views expressed are not employers’. He wrote the below as an editorial for StatNews. Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends
Caregivers have a lot of control and power over our loved ones. We expect them to be caring, competent, and conscious. Selling or stealing narcotics, opioids, and other medication is an abuse of power. Dangerous Opioids Fox4KC reported an investigation into heroin overdoses at a nursing home in St. Louis. Police discovered a nurse supplied
Greed The U.S. Department of Justice sent a press release on a recent Connecticut embezzlement case. Chaim Stern received 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzlement and tax offenses related to his operation of nursing homes. Stern was the owner and operator of the Bridgeport Health Care Center (“BHCC”),
Sonia Sein got the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York. The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs. The medical team performed the first complete surgical transplant of a windpipe. She is breathing freely again after getting the unusual transplant. Sonia Sein spent years “trying to
Cancel Culture “I know the topic is cancel culture. I have some thoughts about that but tonight I rise to discuss freedom and our constitutional duty to protect it. Mr. Speaker, I have been privileged to see firsthand how powerful and fragile freedom is. Twenty-eight years ago, I stood outside a polling place, a schoolhouse
Single-occupancy rooms are necessary for resident safety and to prevent infectious diseases from spreading in nursing homes. It is not a luxury or just a privacy concern. It should be the cost of doing business. Plante Moran observed in a new report that the need will accelerate in the future. “Moving forward, private rooms will