Urinary Tract Infections, or UTIs, are a common complaint among families with a mom or dad in long-term care. UTIs can be dangerous. First, UTIs can become a serious infection if untreated. However, UTIs also lead to falls, because UTIs cause people to feel as if they have to go to the bathroom constantly –
Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing Home Guilty of Abuse Pushes to Change Rules Limit Legal Exposure
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Many times, in the world of nursing home litigation and medical malpractice, you hear things like “caps on damages,” “tort reform,” of “medical review panels.” These measures are presented as ways to “Stop the crisis!” or “Reign in out of control juries!” The reality is, there is no crisis, juries are reasonable, and these measures…
Welcome Reform Measures to Correct Questionable Self Reporting Staffing Levels in Nursing Homes
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As an advocate in New Jersey for nursing home residents, one of my greatest frustrations has been the lack of oversight for self reported staffing levels. This has lead to an extraordinarily low incidence of short staffing citations – and worse yet, has allowed some understaffed facilities to crow over their lack of such citations.…
Rating the Nursing Homes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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Posted in News, Nursing Home Information
The official U.S. government website for Medicare provides a tool that allows consumers to compare information about nursing homes. It is called Nursing Home Compare, and contains quality-of-care information on every Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The tool creates that information based on the “skilled” care that nursing…