An attorney, an official from a sensible growth advocacy group and a few community residents who gathered at Broome High School on Tuesday evening for a public meeting on a proposed medical waste treatment facility voiced concerns that the safety of the technology that would be used there is unproven. Spartanburg attorney Gary Poliakoff, citing
Kenny Malone at NPR had a great article on the suspicious deaths at care homes in Florida. “In Florida, state regulators are failing to protect residents of assisted living facilities, according to an investigation by The Miami Herald and NPR member station WLRN.” Their analysis of records discovered dozens of questionable deaths in assisted living facilities.
A quadriplegic who suffered severe heatstroke when his caregiver left him in her car on a hot day was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for the stroke as a compensable consequence of the workplace injury that paralyzed him in the first place, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. In disputing the claim, the
The Star Tribune had a good article abiout the problem of over-medication of nursing home residents. Powerful antipsychotic drugs have been used for years to reduce agitation, hallucinations and other debilitating symptoms among people with mental illnesses. They also are widely used “off label” to quell disruptive behavior among people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms
One of the nursing home workers who physically abused patients in Albert Lea, Minn. learned her punishment last month. Brianna Broitzman was sentenced to only 180 days in jail. She pleaded guilty to the charges in August. It’s a staggered sentence where she will serve 60 days immediately and was taken directly to jail from the courtroom.
The Des Moines Register had a great article on the new GAO Report mentioned in my earlier post. Private investment firms have been buying up nursing homes in recent years, creating a complicated trail that makes ownership difficult to pinpoint. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to know who is ultimately responsible for care
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