Saturday, October 27, 2012

Spy Pills, Toothbrush Saliva & Gov't Data

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Like a shotgun blast to my middle2.      Boomers struggling to recover3.      Digital media – pros and cons4.      Spy pills, toothbrush saliva &government databases   "TheDemocrats and...

Friday, October 19, 2012

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

10 Ways to Fly Under the Radar, DIY Water Filters

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       10 Ways to fly ‘under-the-radar’2.      Using Food Shed Maps3.      DIY water filter & purifier plans4.      Track Me if You Can+More on an OverCriminalized America A man's admiration for...

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Tips for Removing Credit Judgements, Halloween Deals

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Citizen Ownership Rights2.      Best deals in October, for Halloween3.      Tips for removing credit judgements4.      Free software programs The greater the power,  the more dangerous the ab...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

My favorite political lies, Over Criminalizing, Arrest Proof Yourself

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Non-stop criminalization of Americans2.      My favorite political lies3.      Free mini-NLP Course, Arrest-proofyourself4.      The latest on full body scans  “The truthwill set you free,...

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Who Will Save America? Debt-Free Tips, SpareOne Cell Phone

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Becoming debt-free2.      SpareOne cell phone uses a single AAbattery3.      Disable Facebook’s facial recognitionsoftware4.      Best holiday layaway plans for 20125.      Traitors Among...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Worm Composting, Shotgun Survival, 77 Items to Stock Up

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       New, Free Downloads: 77 Items to Stock up on+ShotgunSurvival2.      Pros of Worm Composting3.      7 For Real At-Home Job Resources4.      Saving on Pet Food5.      Is it more than just...

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Oddball Zombie Services, 10 things to Stop Buying, Bankrupt USA

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Oddball stuff for the Zombie Apocalypse2.      Little Hope, Little Change-Why I don’tdrink the Kool-aid3.      Half the workforce to be temps?4.      Bankrupting the nation, one federalagency...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Why You Should Avoid Smart Phones

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Causes of theMiddle Class Stagnation2.     Extra Cash for the holidays3.     Why you should avoid Smart Phones4.     Why have there been no arrests in the Wall StreetMeltdown?Good decisions...

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Giving up Freedom for Security-It's Costing us Billions

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      DefeatingDysfunctional Politicians-Giving up Freedom2.     The growth of tent cities in America3.     Fall Harvest Lookup site4.     How to Bypass the phone menu in large corporations5.    &nb...

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Scavenging, Squatting & Scrounging, Do I Really Need to Prepare?

  Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Scavenging, Squatting & Scrounging2.      Do I really need to prepare?3.      Free online gunsmithing video course4.      Why Bureaucrats are more dangerousthan...

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Why Americans are Easily Fooled, Shipping Container Homes

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Mid-wage jobs vanishing, what to donow2.      Shipping container homes3.      Why Americans are so easily fooled The whole aim ofpractical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence...

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Who Needs Terrorists? We have Bureaucrats to Destroy the US

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Who Needs Terrorists?  We have bureaucrats to destroy the country2.     Help for thoseexperiencing hard times3.     Free Training &medical care for Veterans4.     Bigger isn’talways better&nb...

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Tips for using the 2nd oldest profession, Preparing for hunting season

      Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Tips for better bartering2.      Tips on getting ready for huntingseason3.      Easy camp bread recipe, ApprenticeshipPrograms4.      Wikileaks guide to...

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Preparing for Civil Unrest, Easy, DIY Beer, Reinventing Community

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.      Re-inventing a city2.     Rep. Roscoe-Get prepared now for civil unrest3.     Collapsible electric car introduced, Easy DIY Beer4.     The Right to Free Speech becoming endangered G...

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Taking back America from Dysfunctional Politicians-If you have the cajones

 Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.       Taking America back from dysfunctional politicians2.      Start your winter garden-Free3.      FreeStuff Hunter4.      FEMA Camps-Disturbing video from JesseVentur...

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Happy is he who owes nothing-Financial Stranglehold Solutions

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543InThis Issue:1.     Long termsurvival for your community2.     StrugglingFinancially-How to Cut Expenses3.     New TVShow-Revolution4.     Compact hydroplant-grow 10,000 vegetablesFelix qui nihil debet."...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Surviving in a Black Market Economy-Guns n Ammo, Breast Milk, Body Parts

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543In This Issue:1.  Will the American Dream Continue?2.  Can you Survive in a Black Market Economy?3.  DIY Bicycle Generator Plans4.  Garden Refrigerator PicklesMen, ithas been well said, think in...

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Four Step Plan for Weathering the Financial Storm-Survive Tough Times

Surviving Tough TimesBecoming Independent during challenging times©2012-2013 Bruce Davidwww.PoorManSurvival.comA Four Step Plan forWeathering Financial StormsINTRODUCTION  I want to seea show of hands.  Which one of you isresponsible for the recession?For the past35 years Congressional policies have bankrupted our country.  I don’t recall signing any of the...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Be a Compliant Citizen: Domestic Spying Increases

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543In This Issue:1.       Fight back against unfair debt collectors2.      Interrogationresistance techniques, more civil liberty resources3.      BuckyBox-help for organic farmers4.      Domesticspying on citizens...

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Police Abuse of Civil Liberties Increases-How to Protect Yourself

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543In This Issue:1.       Police abuse-protecting your civil liberties2.      Keeping yourhome safe during vacations3.      Become acivil liberties activist-brother, we need them!4.      AssetForfeiture abuse by...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

How Americans Gave Away Their Freedom & Became Poor

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival BulletinA Digest of Urban Survival Resourceshttp://www.PoorManSurvival.comFor Independent Minded People!ISSN 2161-5543In This Issue:1.      How Americans gave away their freedom& became poor2.     Free ConsumerResource Guides, Cut Commute Costs3.     Self WateringContainers, Save a Life Simulator4.     I’d...

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Family alleges relative was victim of abuse at St. Louis nursing home

The family of a resident at a St. Louis County nursing home says their 68-year-old relative had to be taken to the hospital after suffering horrific injuries from alleged nursing home neglect. The news comes within days after a criminal elderly abuse investigation was launched against St. John’s Place.While the Missouri Department of Health is not officially talking about the allegations, police have confirmed they were told of the incidents.Gail Drmacich, the family member of a now former resident, saw a News 4 story and said she wanted...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

National Quality Forum: Serious Reportable Events; Formerly "Never Events"

NQF: Serious Reportable Events: Preventing adverse events in healthcare is central to NQF's patient safety efforts. To ensure that all patients are protected from injury while receiving care, NQF has developed and endorsed a set of Serious Reportable Events (SREs). This set is a compilation of serious, largely preventable, and harmful clinical events, designed to help the healthcare field assess, measure, and report performance in providing safe c...

Elderly woman claims she was sexually abused at nursing home

An elderly nursing home patient is staying in a New Albany nursing home after family transferred her for her own safety. The elderly woman claims she was sexually assaulted at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center in Corydon, Ind. . "Where this goes is unclear. I will say our victim is reported to have early onset dementia which makes things a little more challenging from the law enforcement side," Otto Schalk, Harrison County Prosecutor, said.Serious allegations of elder sexual abuse were made by an 84-year-old woman. Schalk...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Nursing Supervisor Found Guilty Of Attempted Neglect

An Ohio nursing supervisor accused of failing to provide help for an injured resident of the Monroe County Care Center was found guilty on one count of attempted patient neglect Tuesday.Kathy Schwaben pleaded no contest to the charge. A judge sentenced her to a suspended 10-day jail sentence and imposed fines and court costs. She will remain on required probation for one year.Agents with the attorney general's health care fraud section began investigating Schwaben in August 2011.Investigators said an 81-year-old patient was thrown from her wheelchair...

Monday, June 18, 2012

Recognizing Elder Abuse Awareness Day

On May 31, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an initiative to reduce the rampant misuse and overuse of antipsychotic drugs in nursing home facilities. The Center for Medicare Advocacy has been working to educate policy makers, advocates, and the public about the misuse of antipsychotic drugs for many years, and is part of an ad hoc coalition of advocates working with CMS and Congress to address the problem that both harms nursing home residents and costs the Medicare program billions of dollars.CMS's press...

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Project to reduce antipsychotic use in nursing homes loses federal funding

Kay Lazar, a writer with the Boston Globe Staff today posted this article about the proposed program to reduce the overuse of physchotic drugs in Massachusetts Nursing Homes:"Massachusetts nursing homes, which recently pledged to lower their rate of antipsychotic use by 15 percent this year, found out Friday that they will not be receiving a coveted federal grant that would have helped fund the initiative to drive down inappropriate use of the powerful sedatives."Project to reduce antipsychotic use in nursing homes loses bid for federal grant...

Friday, June 15, 2012

Presidential Proclamation -- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, 2012 | The White House

Every American deserves the chance to live out the full measure of their days in health and security. Yet, every year, millions of older Americans are denied that most basic opportunity due to abuse, neglect, or exploitation. On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, we call attention to this global public health issue, and we rededicate ourselves to providing our elders the care and protection they deserve. Victims of elder abuse are parents and grandparents, neighbors and friends. Elder abuse cuts across race, gender, culture, and circumstance,...

Celebrate World Elder Abuse Awareness Day!

On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, individuals and organizations from across the world are urged to raise awareness of the various types of abuse to which older individuals are subjected. This year, take a stand in the fight against elder abuse and take a stand for dignity and respect of our elders.To support the ongoing work that you’re doing to protect the rights of older people, the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) has made available a virtual ‘toolkit’ that includes creative ways your state and local communities can get involved...

Monday, June 4, 2012

Texas nurse aide bites Alzheimer's patient's

Then, in a moment of pointed retaliation, the witness “unequivocally testified” that the nurse aide bent over and bit the resident on the forehead, court documents say.A medical assessment of the resident determined that she had a bite mark with two open skin wounds on her forehead.The nurse aide said she didn’t bite the woman and that she fainted from the pain of being bitten. She argued that it was possible her teeth hit the resident as she raised her head and tried to stand up.Read more here: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/investigations/2012/05/arm-to-the-teeth-texas-nurse-aide-bit-on-arm-chomps-alzheimers-patients-head.html#storylink=cpyArm...

Friday, June 1, 2012

Massachusetts cites 3 hospitals for denial of care of patients

Health officials cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for wrongly sending away patients from their emergency rooms, in one case resulting in the death of a patient while en route to another facility.In that episode, caregivers at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River failed to provide needed medical treatment before transferring the patient, who was unstable and in respiratory distress, state investigators concluded.In a case at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, an on-call surgeon refused to come in late at night...

Monday, May 28, 2012

Nursing Home Nightmare

"Kill me or let me die," were Alan's dying words, one month after the trauma of his forced eviction from a nursing home that didn't want him anymore. Those words still haunt my sister and I, knowing in our hearts the nursing home trauma killed him prematurely.Alan (not his real name) was going to die anyway, terminally ill with Alzheimer's and Lewey Body dementias. But dying in terror wasn't part of the plan. We never expected as prophetic, his WWII-generated fears as an orphan being "taken away by police." We believe the living nightmare of his...

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Attorney Hamill files Wrongful Death Suit against Massachusetts Nursing Home

Hamill Law Office recently filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit in the Berkshire County, Massachusetts superior court on behalf of the Estate of John B. Satiro against Sweet Brook nursing home. Satiro was fatally injured by a fall at the Williamstown facility. Plaintiff Satiro was a resident of Sweet Brook transitional care and living center located at 1561 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Sweet Brook Transitional Care and Living Center is owned by Des Senior Care Holdings, LLC, of Fort Lee, NJ. According to the complaint...

Friday, May 25, 2012

Bridgewater nursing home sued by family of ill woman killed

The family of a Bound Brook woman killed trying to cross Route 22 in 2010 is suing the nursing care facility where she was living at the time.Anastasia Zavitsanos was a 74-year-old resident of Brandywine Assisted Living at Middlebrook Crossing when she “eloped” through a side door of the facility about 1:15 a.m. May 12, 2010, according to the lawsuit filed late last month in Superior Court in Somerville.The lawsuit claims Zavitsanos, who was admitted to the facility in 2004, was known by the staff to suffer from schizophrenia, psychosis, short-term...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

No procedure for flu detection at Nursing Home

A report into the nursing home where seven residents died following a flu outbreak has found there was no procedure for an early detection of influenza.The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) published a report into the Nazareth House nursing home, Fahan after nine elderly residents died between March 22 and April 8. Seven of the deaths have been classified as possibly caused by an influenza related illness.Two inspections by HIQA found deficits in the standard of nursing home cleanliness and hygiene and the maintenance arrangements...

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Holding VT. nursing home owners accountable

Glori Law and Susan Petrie's father was living in a nursing home just 10 days when they learned he was being attacked by another resident who was mentally unstable. "My dad had bruises on his face when he was in the funeral home," Law said. They later discovered it wasn't a first time offense. "This person was quite violent and had been doing this. There were a lot of people that had been attacked," Petrie said. A medical examiner ruled the attacks were the cause of their father's death. But on Tuesday there was change in the nursing home law....

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Nursing Home Owner Cheats Government, Neglects Residents

Not enough food for nursing home residents. Little air conditioning or heat. Roofs leaking to the point that barrels and plastic sheets were used to catch rain water. Trash that piled up in dumpsters. Flies and rodents everywhere, along with rampant mold and mildew.These were just some of the abusive conditions that elderly residents of three Georgia nursing homes lived under for several years.The primary culprit: the owner of these nursing homes who, despite having received more than $32.9 million in payments from Medicare and...

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Camera Catches Abuse in Nursing Home

A woman used a high-resolution video surveillance camera to record a nurse beating her mother in a nursing care home. She placed the camera in her mother's room after she noticed she had bruises on her arms and hands only six weeks after moving into the home. The camera disguised as a table clock, caught Jonathan Aquino, 30, hitting the old woman six times on the face, arms and abdomen. Another footage showed the old woman, who had severe arthritis, being man-handled by caregivers. The Daily Mail reports Aquino was jailed for 18 months for assault,...

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Nursing home residents with dementia improperly given antipsychotics

From April 29th Boston Globe: an article about excessive medication of our nursing home elders who should not be on anti-pyschotic med:"Ledgewood Nursing home is one of many nursing homes that have commonly used antipsychotic drugs to control agitation and combative behavior in residents who should not be receiving the powerful sedatives. Nineteen percent of such Ledgewood residents - those without a diagnosis for which the drugs are recommended - received the medications, anyway, exposing them to the risk of dangerous side effects.“There is a...

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Nursing home violence

Two years into the state's fight to close a troubled South Side nursing home, the facility remains open and even has successfully booted out two state-appointed monitors who were installed to ensure patient safety.Police reports and state health department inspections allege a pattern of patient-on-patient violence at the Rainbow Beach Care Center, a 200-bed facility that houses and treats indigent adults with mental illness.In the most serious episode in July, two male residents were accused of pinning down a 45-year-old female patient...

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Consumer Group Bashes SNF Industry for Inferior Care Despite “Astonishing” Profits

Nursing homes remained “highly profitable” despite Medicare reimbursement cuts, but they’re still providing inferior elder care, says citizen advocacy organization Families for Better Care—a claim that the American Health Care Association (AHCA) was quick to counter.Despite “astonishing” recent nursing home earnings reports for publicly traded nursing homes, resident care remains “mediocre at best” with too many residents troubled by untreated pressure sores, falls, abuse, or other negligent medical practices, contends Brian Lee, executive director...

Sunday, May 6, 2012

“If you didn’t chart it you didn’t do it.” Part 1 | Pat Iyer.com

Incomplete documentation can dramatically affect a malpractice case. In the ideal world all pertinent observations and interventions are recorded. But is “If you didn’t chart it you didn’t do it” true? For a variety of reasons, medical records may be incomplete. Emergency situations, such as cardiac arrests, often result in gaps in documentation as patient needs take priority. Ideally the nurse tries to record detailed notes after the emergency is over, but this does not always happen because the nurse must direct attention to the other patients...

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Long-term care facilities seniors at higher risk for assaults

It's always a tough decision to put a loved one in a nursing home. For Sandra Croteau it was made even more difficult by the fact that her mother had recently died and her 58-year old developmentally disabled brother, Keith, had taken a turn for the worst. "Him and my mom were very close and he just went downhill (after she died). He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't wash, his life skills were gone" she said. After much thought, Sandra placed her brother in a long-term care facility in Sudbury, Ont. She found a room at Extendicare York, a home normally...

Monday, April 30, 2012

Nursing home whistleblowers fired

More than a month ago two nurse assistants at Bandera Road's Princeton Place nursing home started noticing problems. Sandra Lujan, a four-year veteran of the facility, claimed she saw elderly patients with abnormal and excessive bruising, including bruises in the shapes of fingers and torn skin on faces. Sonia Roman, a nurse assistant at Princeton Place for two years, also saw similar bruising. She also questioned whether there was enough staff to care for all 134 patients, saying many were routinely left unattended. She even confronted one nurse...

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Things Hospitalists Should Know about Infectious Diseases

Never swab a decubitus ulcer unless that ulcer is clearly infected.Dr. Allen says it’s important to know that it doesn’t make sense to culture a pressure ulcer that doesn’t have any signs of infection, such as pus or redness—although he sees it happen routinely.“Just because a patient has a bedsore doesn’t mean it’s infected,” Dr. Allen says. “Usually, they’re not infected. But they’re going to have a dozen different germs growing in them.”Culturing and treatment without signs of infection, he says, often leads to “inappropriate antibiotic use...

Friday, April 27, 2012

Victim critical in nursing home assault

A 42-year-old man has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding after police say he attacked an elderly resident at a nursing home Thursday evening. Debbie George with the City of Suffolk said William K. Ruffin, a resident at Oakwood Assisted Living Facility on East Washington Street, attacked a 92-year-old woman sometime before 6:30 p.m. She sustained severe facial injuries and was transported to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital by Nightingale. Friday morning, George said the victim was in critical condition at the hospital. Police...

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wrongful death claim cannot be arbitrated

I waas quoted in this weeks Lawyers Weekly article on Arbitrations in the nursing home context. In an article by Eric T. Berkman, an attorney and freelance writer for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Publishdd Wed, April 25, 2012A mandatory arbitration agreement that a man signed on his mother’s behalf when she was admitted to a nursing home did not bar his wrongful death suit against the facility, a Superior Court judge has ruled. Judge Troy's ruling essentially voided an arbitration agreement that had been signed by a health care...

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

South Florida Abuse

Southwest Florida can be a retiree’s paradise — but that also makes it an ideal place to prey on the elderly.At a public forum Tuesday, the Lee Elder Abuse Prevention Partnership shared stories of elder abuse and discussed ways to prevent it.“Our own parents and grandparents are being taken advantage of,” said co-chairwoman Dotty St. Amand. Part of the problem is Florida does not require private home caregivers to be licensed, according to John Morano, CEO of JT Private Duty Home Care. The state oversees companies such as Morano’s, which require...

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Social media policy considerations for long term care providers

A single photo of a resident’s decubitus ulcer on Facebook and/or YouTube is perhaps one of a long term care facility’s worst nightmares.Social media policy considerations for long term care providers – a sword or a shield? - Lexol...

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Verdict against Rosewood Care Center upheld

The Fifth District Appellate Court has upheld a Madison County plaintiff's verdict in a case that was tried twice against Rosewood Care Center nursing home of Edwardsville.Jurors awarded $149,115.13 to Paul Graves, administrator of his father's estate in April 2009. Paul Graves contended that Rosewood was negligent in caring for his father, Alfred Graves, during a January 2003 stay at the facility. On the first day of his stay, Alfred Graves fell and broke his hip. Paul Graves claimed that the nursing home violated its own procedures and did not...

Friday, April 20, 2012

Suit alleges woman's hip fractured at Baptist Hospital

A woman has filed suit against Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital, alleging she sustained a hip fracture while staying in the intensive care unit.Sheila Antoine claims an ambulance transported her to Baptist Hospital on Feb. 10, 2010, after she began complaining of severe shortness of breath, cough and fever. Medical personnel decided to take an X-ray of Antoine's chest. While the hospital staff was positioning Antoine on the table, she began to feel discomfort in her legs, according to the complaint filed March 15 in Jefferson County District...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Senior Living: How to watch for and avoid pressure sores

Pressure sores are easier to prevent than to treat. Pay attention to senshtive areas of the skin. Reposition to remove pressure. Keep skin clean and moisturized. Note that too much moisture however, can contribute to bed sores. Skin areas can be kept dry with body powder. Good nutrition and adequate hydration are key to skin integritySenior Living: How to watch for and avoid pressure sores » Redding Record Searchli...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

nursing home worker accused of taking nude picture of resident

A case of elder abuse is surfacing in southwest Iowa. An Atlantic woman is accused of taking a picture of a nude nursing home resident earlier this month. Thirty-five-year-old Amanda Sedina, who works at the Salem Lutheran Nursing Home in Elk Horn, faces a serious misdemeanor charge of invasion of privacy-nudity.Shelby County Chief Deputy Sheriff Rod McMurphy says Sedina allegedly took an inappropriate picture of the bathing 78-year-old female resident. McMurphy says another employee of the nursing home received a text message from Sedina with...

Friday, April 13, 2012

Nursing Home Layoffs Can affect Care

Boston Massachusetts nursing home abuse attorney Bernard J. Hamill says families need know that there is a correlation between staffing levels and the adequacy of elder care in nursing homes. It is common sense and it is backed by state and federal regulations. The challenge is in interpreting data provided by nursing homes to the government regarding staffing adequacy to insure nursing home residents receive the high quality of care mandated by federal and state regulations. Federal regulations state that staffing must be sufficient to...

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Mandatory Binding Arbitration Article From CJ&D

According to the Center for Justice in Democracy Factsheet on Arbitration, "Mandatory binding arbitration is a process by which parties “agree” (although consumers rarely know they have “agreed”) to have a third party arbitrator (single arbitrator or a panel), instead of a jury or judge, resolve a dispute. Arbitrators are not required to have any legal training and they need not follow the law. Court rules of evidence and procedure, which tend to neutralize imbalances between the parties in court, do not apply. There is limited discovery, making...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Drug Deaths Rising in Nursing Homes

In a nursing home on the southern end of California's Central Valley, three elderly dementia patients died during 2007. Normally, that would not make the headlines. But these patients died after being given powerful antipsychotic drugs to control elders behavior--despite warnings the drugs increase the risk of death in elders with dementia.Mae Brinkley, 91, Joseph Shepter, 76, and Alexander Zaiko, 85, died at the Kern Valley Hospital, a 74-bed skilled nursing facility in rural Lake Isabella, about 30 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Their cases...

Monday, April 9, 2012

Nurse at Southern Cross home did not call doctor and Joyce Wordingham died, court hears

SYSTEMATIC failures at a Tyneside nursing home saw a pensioner in desperate need of medical attention left to die. Dementia sufferer Joyce Wordingham had become so ill it should have been obvious to staff at her nursing home that she needed to see a doctor. However, Daphne Joseph was the only nurse looking after 29 residents at St Michael’s View, in South Shields, and she had not been trained properly amid a “culture of neglect”. So, instead of calling an ambulance, Joseph simply sponged Mrs Wordingham and made a note she looked frail and ill....

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Pennsylvania's nursing homes are in crisis

Pennsylvania's nursing homes can no longer sustain themselves with the latest cuts to Medicaid, according to a health advocate for the elderly. Families who are likely to pick up the slack also are seeing their support threatened."Two-thirds of Pennsylvania's nursing home residents are on Medicaid, and for each one of them, a nursing home loses an average of $19.23 a day," said Dr. Stuart H. Shapiro, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association. "These shortfalls are unsustainable."The proposed $102 million statewide cut in Medicaid...

Thursday, April 5, 2012

nursing home blamed for resident’s death

A Cy-Fair nursing home is being sued over claims its nursing home neglect caused the death of one of its residents.Susan Evangelista, individually and on behalf of the deceased Joanne Gilmore, filed a wrongful death lawsuit on March 2 in Harris County District Court against Grace Care Center of Cypress.Evangelista says on May 10, 2011, Joanne, a Grace Care Center resident, died as a result of continued and ongoing neglect. Grace Care subjected Gilmore to serious physical and mental injuries, according to the brief.Cy-Fair nursing home blamed for...

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Nursing home failed to protect patient from resident with ‘violent criminal record’ — Oak Park & River Forest news, photos and events — TribLocal.com

The family of an Alzheimer’s patient who died after a physical altercation with another patient at Oak Park Healthcare is suing the west suburban nursing home for wrongful death, according to a press release issued Thursday by the family’s lawyers.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday alleges the facility violated federal and state nursing home regulations in failing to protect patient from physical abuse and failing to provide appropriate supervision, according to the press release.Anibal Calderon, an 80-year-old resident of the Oak Park Healthcare Center,...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Oak Park nursing home Sued after 80-year-old fatally beaten

The family of an elderly nursing home resident who was beaten to death by a fellow resident of Oak Park nursing home last month has filed a lawsuit claiming the nursing facility failed to protect the 80-year-old from abuse and neglect.The wrongful death lawsuit against Oak Park Healthcare Center, 625 N. Harlem Ave., was filed in Cook County on behalf of the family of Anibal Calderon.On Feb. 12, Calderon, who suffered from dementia, was assaulted by a 66-year-old resident with a violent criminal background, the suit claims. A nurse found Calderon...

Friday, March 30, 2012

I-Team: Nursing Home Report

The Massachusetts state Health Department issues its final inspection report detailing serious findings of poor elder care at nursing home: the Pawtuxet Village Care and Rehabilitation Center.Some of the Health Department reports' findings included not answering nurses' call lights for 15 minutes, leaving residents in urine- and feces-soaked clothing, failing to provide an on-going program that meets the interests and well being for residents, and under medicating and overmedicating residents, sometimes with narcotics, because of nursing home staff...

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Ohio facility may lose license after meth lab fire

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state of Ohio is taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home that had a fatal methamphetamine lab fire and was later found to be violating federal regulations, the Ohio Department of Health said Tuesday.The March 4 fire broke out in a resident's room at Park Haven Home in Ashtabula. Shaun Warrens, 31, who police said was not a resident of the home or an employee, was killed. Four other people were hospitalized, and two were treated at the scene.A review of the home last week cited seven nursing home violations, including...

Monday, March 26, 2012

Low nursing homes ratings

Most of the 14 nursing homes in the Iowa City area are making the grade under federal quality ratings, but two facilities with higher-than-average health inspection deficiencies have consistently received failing scores over the past three years, an analysis of government ratings shows.Windmill Manor, a troubled Coralville nursing home that has faced numerous federal and state penalties in recent years, currently is rated as a one-star facility, the lowest grade on the government’s five-star scale. And Iowa City Rehab and Health Care is currently...

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Canada promise tough sentences for crimes against seniors

The Canadian federal government is introducing legislation that calls for tougher sentences for those convicted of elder abuse. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Minister of State for Seniors Alice Wong announced plans to amend the Criminal Code so that taking advantage of a senior will be considered "an aggravating factor" in a crime. That "aggravating factor" would then be taken into consideration during sentencing. "We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, including older Canadians," Nicholson told reporters...

Friday, March 23, 2012

nursing home worker sexually assaulted resident

An employee of a St. Paul nursing home is accused of exposing himself and sexually assaulting a nursing home resident, according the Minnesota Department of Health report. The state agency said the alleged nursing home assault incidents took place at the Highland Chateau Health Care Center, according to a report made public Tuesday, March 20. The nursing home, located at 2319 W. Seventh St. in the Highland neighborhood, self-reported the case. According to the health department report, a resident told a state inspector that an employee had...

Roscommon West Roxbury on National Watch List - Memberofthefamily.net

According to the website: http://www.memberofthefamily.net/watch/225499.htm"Based on the annual and complaint survey data reported by CMS as of 02/26/12 , this home is listed because in at least one area they caused actual harm to a patient and/or subjected the patients to immediate jeopardy. More recent reports/corrections may be available. Check with the nursing home administrator. Actual harm is indicated by a score of G, H, I, while J, K, L indicate immediate jeopardy. The color coding scheme is explained in the si...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Study: Mass. medical board ranks poorly on MD discipline

Study: Mass. medical board ranks poorly on MA Doctor disciplinePublic Citizen, a consumer group with a focus on health care, issued its annual listing comparing medical boards based on how regularly they discipline doctors. Not only does Massachusetts rank poorly, at No. 47, but it is among a handful of states that have dropped significantly in recent years. Seven years ago, the state was ranked solidly in the middle of the pack at No. 23. The report ranks states based on the per capita number of serious disciplinary actions, or those that...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

2 El Dorado County nursing home workers charged with felony elder abuse of patient

2 nursing home workers charged with felony elder abuse of patient:PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Prosecutors charged two nursing home workers with felony elder abuse after a 77-year-old woman was neglected at a Placerville facility shortly before she died in 2008.The attorney general's office filed the charges after the death of Johnnie Esco, an Alzheimer's patient who spent two weeks at the El Dorado Care Center to recover from pneumonia, the Sacramento Bee reported (http://bit.ly/ADK579 ) Friday.During Esco's stay, nurses were supposed to closely monitor...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Nursing home failed to protect patient from resident with criminal record

The family of an Alzheimer’s patient who died after a physical altercation with another patient at Oak Park Healthcare is suing the west suburban nursing home for wrongful death, according to a press release issued Thursday by the family’s lawyers.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday alleges the facility violated federal and state nursing home regulations in failing to protect patient from physical abuse and failing to provide appropriate supervision, according to the press release.Anibal Calderon, an 80-year-old resident of the Oak Park Healthcare Center,...

Monday, March 19, 2012

Nurses face felony charges in nursing home death

An 81-year-old Cameron Park man who served during three wars won the fight of his life this week when California's attorney general charged two nurses with felony elder abuse in connection with the 2008 death of his beloved wife.The nurse arrest in Modesto of one nurse and the pursuit of the second, who reportedly has left the state, marks a bittersweet victory in the four-year quest of Don Esco to find justice for his late wife.Johnnie Esco, 77, died on March 7, 2008, after a two-week stay at the El Dorado Care Center in Placerville, a skilled...