If your loved one has been injured in a nursing home and there does not seem to be a reasonable explanation from the nursing home, go to the administrator and request the incident report. Most nursing home policies require that the staff member treating the resident at the time of the incident prepare a statement […]
Often when a nursing home resident leaves for a short time, the facility will try to charge either the resident or Medicare/Medicaid for that short term absence. Those charges may not be proper. Family members need to understand there are requirements that the facility has to meet regarding these short absences. Often the facility will […]
More than a hundred children have died or been seriously injured in the last decade after squeezing through tiny pet doors and getting into swimming pools or other dangerous places, new research has found. “What we see is a picture that’s emerging which shows that the pet door is a really serious hazard in a […]
Brown University Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research has introduced a website designed for nursing home researchers that provides data on nursing home care in the US. The website states that its goal is to allow researchers to trace relationships between state policies, local market forces and the quality of long-term care and enable policymakers […]
