Nursing Home Law Blog : Nursing Home Lawyer & Attorney : Stark & Stark Law Firm : Elder Care, Senior Care

I found an interesting article on NYDailyNews.com this week entitled, Hospital records were sometimes falsified to cover up medical mistakes. The article discusses the recent report that doctors, nurses and support staff at New York City-run hospitals have falsified documents in hospital records in order to cover up medical mistakes. The records were either deleted altogether or were doctored in order to omit specific details of certain cases in order to mislead investigators. The state issued 16 citations between 2004 and 2008.

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I read an article online last week which reported of a recent case in which a nursing home owner and operator stole pension funds from a resident. On June 30, 2009 Michael D. Berg, 72, the owner of an Ocean Township nursing home, plead guilty to stealing approximately $39,000 from one of his home's residents. Berg plead guilty to one count of third-degree theft by deception.

The Prosecutor's Office had been investigating the allegations that Berg was stealing from his residents, and found that from January 1, 2005 through March 31, 2008, Berg began stealing pension funds which belonged to a resident of the home. Berg will face sentencing by Superior Court Judge Edward M. Neafsey in Freehold on July 31, 2009.

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According to US News & World Report, In a typical year, about 3.2 million Americans will spend at least some time in a nursing home. To help find a good choice from among the nation's more than 15,500 homes, U.S. News created America's Best Nursing Homes - a list of the roughly 15,000 best nursing homes from throughout the country. You can search by name of the nursing home, by state, city or by zip code.

Once the search has been conducted, a report is generated with all of the homes which fit your search criteria. Each home is given an overall rating, a rating for health inspections, nursing staff and quality measures. The report also provides a link to a full, more detailed report of each home. You can access the search online here.

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The nation's crisis in patient care stems from routine understaffing of registered nurses in hospitals--and that understaffing, say nurses unions, leads to thousands of unnecessary patient deaths a year.

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Toms River Township sued Dover Woods Health Care Center because of abnormal conduct at the facility. There are over 20 calls a month to the police according to township officials. On Wednesday June 17, 2009 Township Officials asked a judge to force the adult home's owners to improve security at the facility.

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