Nursing Home Complaint Centers Fields Your Calls for Deaths Around Sepsis or Septic Shock
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Nursing Home Complaint Centers Fields Your Calls for Deaths Around Sepsis or Septic Shock
The Nursing Home Complaint Centers Fields Your Calls for Deaths Around Sepsis or Septic Shock The Nursing Home Complaint Center believes that, based on the calls they receive from family members, needless deaths caused by sepsis, or septic shock, is a much bigger problem than anyone knows. If your family...
What Would Jack Bauer Do?
In the now-infamous case of an independent living facilityÛªs policy on CPR, the simple perception is that a woman was dying and needed CPR. Sound and prudent judgment would have been to perform it, or move out of the way and get someone else to do it. I invite you...
Fifth of Nursing Aides Charged with Abuse Had Priors
According to the Office of the Inspector general, almost a fifth of nursing aides charged with abuse and neglect had prior convictions. Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions. Overall, the 300 nurse...
Here’s a Good Nursing Home Story
The following is a guest blog by Linda Dickey. After 15 years of widowhood, at 89, my mom sold her condo in Lake Worth, FL, and moved to a rental apartment in a nearby retirement facility. For a few months, everything seemed to be fine. Then she had a sudden...
Elder Financial Abuse Spikes 12% Since 2008
Older Americans are losing $2.9 billion annually to elder financial abuse, a 12 percent increase from the $2.6 billion estimated in 2008, according to äóìThe MetLife Study of Elder Financial Abuse: Crimes of Occasion, Desperation, and Predation Against America’s Elders.äó Crimes involving strangers made up more than half (51 percent)...
Nursing Home Abuse Information
In 2007, 1.3 million elderly people lived in nursing homes. That same year, there were nearly 20 complaints of abuse reported per nursing home! It is critical that families and friends of the elderly be aware of the risk factors for abuse in nursing facilities. Bachus & Schanker, LLC has...
Abused Nursing Home Workers Develop Musculoskeletal Pain
Nursing home workers who suffer violent attacks from patients and visitors are significantly more likely to develop musculoskeletal pain. The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health surveyed 920 employees with a variety of jobs at 12 nursing homes in Maine and Maryland. The average length of time each employee had spent...
Background Checks to be Funded in Six States
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Missouri and Rhode Island will split the first round of the grant funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for creating comprehensive, streamlined background check systems for long-term care employees. Other states are expected to apply later this month. States will use the funding...