Rome News Tribune has a story about a male resident found dead in the nursing home’s utility closet. Typically, these closets are locked and only certain staff members have access. No one knows how the resident got into the closet or how he died. The man had been missing from a Georgia nursing home for two weeks
Alabama NewsChannell 19 had a horrendous story of neglect on their website. NewsChannel 19’s Carson Clark reported that a Marshall County Nursing Home is in trouble with state and federal officials after a patient died there. A doctor says the Golden Living Center in Boaz allowed a young woman to scream for help for more than
The Atlanta Journal constitution wrote a story about a Georgia Judge finding tort reform caps to be unconstitutional. The cap on monetary awards in a medical malpractice case was found to be unconstitutional. Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington wrote in an order that the legislative cap of $350,000 for noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering
I read an interesting article about getting medical records earlier this week. The article raised several important points: 1) Its hard to get your own records, but its much harder to get someone else’s; 2) Its hard to get ALL records; 3) Its hard to be sure that the records are accurate. USA Today specifically points
Inevitably in most of our nrsing home cases, numerous documents that are intended to show the care, treatment, and services provided to the resident are missing, lost, or never done by the staff. This occurs because the care was not provided or understaffing caused the staff not to have time to document or poorly trained
The owner of the Southside Residential Care Facility, Roy Lee Bowers, 64, has been arrested and charged with felony neglect of a vulnerable adult, resulting in the death of a patient. His health care administration license was also suspended Friday by the state. Investigators started looking into the facility when they found 59-year-old William Sealy
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