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A comment on Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes #6

Sarah — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:56:31 GMT

I've been a nurse for 35 years. Work ethnics are horible. Look who has taken over the care of patients in the past 10 years. I work part-time at 2 places and they lie alot to make themselves look good. They cover up. UVA and others do also. No accountability. The Governors staff needs to take a good look.
Ask him the questions: Is this how you want your parents to live out their last days. Is this how you want to be treated? Rich or poor os treated the same.

A comment on Tanning Beds....The Sun is Setting

Hair Salons Vista CA — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:41:37 GMT

We don't offer tanning services but I don't see anything wrong with it. Personally I use a tanning bed before summer to get ready for the beach.

Jaime Nicole Salon and Spa
Hair Salons in Vista California

A comment on Tanning Beds....The Sun is Setting

LDG — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:20:56 GMT

how often and for how long would allow yourself of your child to spend on that Long Island NY or Bermuda beach?

Not too long before you got thoughts of burning and skin cancer.

If this is the case why do indoor tanning and sunbed salons encourage unlimited monthly UV exposure packages to their clientele?

I would say its profit driven.

If you owned a tanning salon would you REALLY encourage your clients to only come 20x a year at $15 a session? That would be $300 in revenue for you per client and if you wanted a $300,000 revenue stream, the goal for most salons and thats conservative, you would need 1,000 steady clients.

With the utter saturation of indoor salons in the USA, approx. 28,000 with an additional 50,000 gyms and nail/hair salons offering a sunbed or two, thats 1,560 indoor tanning salons per state.

The reality is that mot salons have a steady client base of avid tanners of about 250 people. Using my math above that translates to $75,000 in revenue. It costs the average salon with 6 to 8 units about $6,000 per month to operate. They would have no profit. So instead they encourage the tanners to keep buying monthly packages and visit the sunbed more like 100 times per year and at $15 a pop 250 steady tanners you now have your $300,000 in revenue and your making a hell of a profit.

The bottom line is business and not true health concern for the general public. The ITA and Euro associations will continue to accuse the medical world of using “junk science” instead of truly acknowledging the fact that the sunbed operator is in it for the profit. If a few people have to die along the way so be it. That sure sounds like the tobacco mindset to me.

A comment on Elder Abuse: Sometimes its Financial

Mike Bryant — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:57:36 GMT

This is a very sad story we see over and over again. Very good post.

A comment on Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes # 8

Michael T. Gibson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:37:46 GMT

I have posted a checklist on our website, StopFlaNursingHomeAbuse.com if you are interested in some other points to make sure your loved one is not being abused or neglected.

A comment on The Myth About Defensive Medicine

Joe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:09:59 GMT

It sounds to me as if it's the insurance companies themselves driving up the cost of medical care. Not because doctors get sued so much more often these days, but because insurance companies like to charge more for their services. Maybe the rising cost of health care isn't the issue so much as the rising cost of the insurance industry that supports health care.

A comment on Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes #6

Deborah Calvert — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:34:44 GMT

This was an all too common occurence at Sunbridge Newport, ran by Sun Healthcare Group Inc.
They understaffed, used broken equipment and had a condemned HVAC system while committed to a Calif State Injunction with the State Attorney General's office for killing patients in Burlingame, Calif in 2000 with a broken HVAC system. Administrators and Directors of Nursing changed every 6 weeks. When attorneys began visiting the facility they flew a board member in to meet with families. Finally they transferred the license to Newport Nursing. But not before successfully killing patients, including my mother. I watched Richard Laga, a man without close family, who suffered from gangrene and lost his life when they neglected to hire a wound care nurse over a 4th of July weekend. Then there was Betty Harness who suffered from fecal impaction and died because SUN lacked the appropriate staff to track bowel movements. And Stella Carter who died when "stat" orders weren't carried out by the nurse on duty and she died. And the man in his 50's who died from aspiration pneumonia when the suctioning equipment failed. And my mother, Evelyn Calvert, who suffered a stroke when their blood pressure monitor registered 120/80, yet the local acute hospital's ER registered it fourty minutes later at 210/105. She suffered a stroke rendering her unable to swallow for the remaining nine months of her life. Not before contracting the superbug MRSA from the facility. She suffered ten months of urinary tract infections in one year. Two severe fevers after their thermometers' batteries were found broken twice in three months. One Sunday a nurse called saying "If you want your mother comfortable you'll take her to the ER today -we don't have the staff to care for her". The ER informed me this facility was well known for transferring patients to the ER for treatment.
The Dept of Health closed Sunbridge the week they transferred the license to Newport Nursing, stating their staff couldn't care for the 37 out of 59 patients they had remaining until properly trained.
Disregard for human life by Sun Healthcare?
My mother died and I sued Sun three years later. But apparently my attorney was already working for SUN. He threatened me in mediation for the CEO of Sun, stating not only would he destroy my reputation if I insisted on a jury trial, but he'd harm me too. I felt forced to sign. Then I sued for malpractice and he died 2 weeks later. Daniel Leipold, Santa Ana.
SUN escaped from having to compensate for treble damages since we could prove willful misconduct - $3-$4 Million. SUN also didn't pay a fine to the Dept of Justice, Attorney General's Office for violating the injunction. The SUN fine of $2.5 Million in Sept 2005 apparently did not include the violations at this facility, according to Claude Vanderwold, Deputy Attorney General.
Would you say corporate corruption is alive and well in America?
This isn't rocket science, Buzz would say.
Deborah Calvert, former assistant to Buzz Aldrin

A comment on Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes #5

Travel124 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:50:37 GMT

A comment on Virginia Doctor Reprimanded for Proscribing Too Much Medication

Bobby — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:17:45 GMT

As a patient of the Doctor, the BS said by the state is not always so. Also, the issue was over three patients from along time ago.
Had he over wrote as this BS claimeds he'd have lost the right to write the schedules medications.

I hope someday you can suffer in the hell I do with my back. I've had the issue for well over twenty years and Dr. Boulware did and asked everything you claim he did not do.

It is an attack against us pain people who break no laws. The idiots in VA cannot stop the dealers so they may up crap to get headlines.

So now what do his patients do? In my case, no meds, no work. Helping the state laying in bed dying in pain everyday.

You have no clue about what you write about. Take your worse tooth ache, throw in a knife in your back, etc., etc. You'd still have no clue the hell I live in everyday.

If you care? The issue was over records not kept 100% correct on three patients and it had nothing to do with what was wrote. The state simply comes after any Doctor who cares and treats you with aheart.

Lastly, I'm white and Dr. Boulware is black. Does the state of Virginia so closely check the records of all it's white Doctors? Do you not think over hundreds and hundreds of patients that ALL Doctors make a mild note taking mistake? They found THREE at his office, WOW! He was a saint to us in severe chronic pain.

You Tool!

A comment on Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes #3

Elise Beaulieu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:02:56 GMT

I am also in agreement. A feeding tube is an invasive procedure and one that requires skilled staff to maintain. Many older adults have lost their sense of smell and medications can make food taste "tinny". Pureed foods can also look unappealing. TV's should be turned off while food is being served. Healthy, tasty snacks should be offered. Feeding groups are another solution, but caregivers must make mealtime conversational, not a chore and talk and speak to residents while they are helping to feed. If the staff is disinterested in assisting with feeding and providing nourishments, it will be obvious in resident's weight losses.