It is fascinating for me to see a new generation growing up with technology, and how so many of them are facile with coding and electronically stored information. The world of record-keeping has moved from analog paper files to digital files(Digital Medical Records in...
When bad things happen in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities, the administrators of those institutions will not want to be held accountable. It’s human nature to avoid responsibility, especially when liability can bring with it major...
Felicia Whitcomb was 89 and lived in a skilled nursing facility here in Northern California. Felicia required two CNAs to lift her safely out of bed. Unfortunately, her care facility was understaffed, which meant that the staff had to take shortcuts. One day,...
The death toll at nursing homes in the United States from the Coronavirus continues to climb. According to the New York Times, of the estimated 110,000 deaths so far, approximately one-third (~35,000) are residents of nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, and...
A fairly common occurrence at nursing home is when a resident cigarette smoker suffers a cigarette burn to some part of their body. When a cigarette burn happens, it means that the resident was not adequately supervised. Some residents are more at risk than others....
I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. There are a lot of types of skin traumas that indicate neglect or abuse, but pressure sores are almost always a clear indicator of neglect or abuse because they always result from a patient being left in one...
Two days ago, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, released a report that helps explain why COVID-19 has devastated nursing homes across the United States. The GAO analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from...
The Coronavirus global pandemic is focusing bright light on the pre-existing lapses of skilled nursing facilities and demonstrating what happens when nursing home chains fail to follow infectious disease protocols leading to other victims of Nursing Home Neglect. ...
SYSTEMIC DEATH AT U.S. NURSING HOMES The Governor of New Mexico announced earlier this week that the state is partnering with a company called Genesis Healthcare, a for-profit chain that the U.S. Department of Justice called an “unscrupulous provider” with a record of...
The statistics are frightening and staggering. In California, an estimated 35% of the 3,500 deaths from COVID-19 so far this year were residents and staff in nursing homes and eldercare facilities. Nationwide, the numbers are equally grim. The New York Times reports...