Fierce Healthcare reported on a new study about specialists in the nursing home industry. JAMA recently published a study showing the number of doctors and advanced practitioners who specialize on nursing home care increased by more than a third between 2012 and 2015. The number of specialists rose from 5,127 to 6,857, an increase of 33.7%.
Unnecessary Amputation NBC News reported the bizarre case in Wisconsin. Nurse Mary K. Brown removed the right foot of a resident at Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center. Police accuse a nurse of amputating a patient’s foot without permission. Apparently, she wanting to display it in her family’s taxidermy shop. Police charged Brown with physical
The State reveals the capital of South Carolina, specifically North Columbia, is one of the nation’s leaders in diabetic amputations. The health care system for people are very limited. A shortage of medical specialists that “perform revalascularization procedures.” The article states that in the year of 2016, “South Carolina logged more than 1,900 non-traumatic, lower
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell stupidly decided that due process required punitive damages should be a single digit ratio to compensatory damages. In that case, the Supreme Court overturned a punitive damages award with a 145-to-1 ratio to compensatory damages. Recently Reuters had an article
“It’s a workforce issue, not an immigration issue, and we frame it as a workforce issue.” –LeadingAge CEO Katie Smith Sloan Occupancy is down because there’s not enough people to take care of people. The 10 largest nonprofit, multi-site senior living organizations were operating nearly 2,000 fewer nursing care beds at the end of 2021,
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