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
William C. Lhotka of the St. louis Post-dispatch wrote an article about a Judge preventing a nursing home from evicting a resident from a nursing home. Below is an excerpt of his article: A judge has barred an Ellisville nursing home from discharging a resident in a billing dispute because of the possible traumatic effects
Kaisernetwork.org has an article referencing a recent Wall St. Journal article showing how the nursing home industry is using mandatory arbitration to avoid compensating victims of abuse and neglect. Below is an excerpt from the article: Nursing home residents and their families increasingly are “giving up their right to sue over disputes about care, including those
The Denverchannell.com has an article about Colorado lawmakers prohibiting insurance companies and nursing homes from coercing residents to waive their right to a jury trial in exchange for recieving health care. Excerpts are below: Rep. Cheri Jahn believes more and more nursing homes are taking advantage of elderly patients and their families by including binding
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