No one seems to give much thought to transporting a nursing home patient in a wheelchair throughout the facility or outside on the facilities grounds. Just push the patient in the chair to where they need to go? Right? Well, like most tasks, there really is quite a bit more to it than is originally […]
Rightfully so, under-staffing in nursing homes remains a significant threat to the health and safety of the vulnerable people who rely on staff for their care. While many situations involving a patient injury may be suspected to be related to under-staffing, it frankly can be a difficult concept to establish specific staffing level requirements at […]
With a criminal trial set to begin, a former nurse has pleaded guilty to criminal neglect charges as opposed to letting a jury decide her fate. The nurse identified as Marty Himebaugh and her supervisor Penny Whitlock faced multiple criminal counts for their roles in a series of suspicious patients deaths at Woodstock Care Center […]
Falls in nursing homes are one of the biggest safety threats encountered by patients. Statistics tell use that more than one-third of all adults over age 65 fall unintentionally every year. A sizable percentage of these falls result in severe injury or death predominately due to complications from head injury or hip fractures. Recognizing the […]
In some respects, nursing home patients are at a far greater risk for injury when they engage in non-traditional nursing home activities outside of the confines of the facility– compared with the day-to-day care they typically receive in the course of their daily programs. While nursing home employees may receive a good deal of training […]
Some of the most tragic cases of nursing home negligence involve medication errors. Not just because the error results in a severe injury or death of a patient, but because the errors were indeed so needless. Somewhere along the line from the time the doctors order was written to the time the medication was dispensed— […]
From a liability perspective, nursing home fall cases prove to be far more difficult than they may appear to be at first glance. While nursing home must assess each patient for their propensity to fall and implement fall prevention accordingly— for some patients falls may occur even with safeguards in place. We’ll save the discussion […]
I tend to harp on specific instances of misconduct where a nurse or nursing home employee makes and error that results in harm to a patient. While many of these occurrences are the result of poor judgement and inadequate training, I’m beginning to think that a deeper issue may be behind many instances of injuries […]
Sometimes I see news stories with such common fact patterns that I have to look at the date of the report as I frequently ask myself, “didn’t I just see this article?” Unfortunately, the cycle of negligent nursing home care continues with seemingly never ending cycles of stories about patient injury and death. And yes, […]
An important court decision Tennessee Supreme Court decision helps clarify what is necessary for injured parties to prove their care in a nursing home negligence lawsuit. The case stems from the lawsuit initiated by Kimberly S. French, the daughter of Martha S. French. Ms. French brought a wrongful death case against the Stratford House nursing home […]
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