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• Moped Accident Highlights Need For Helmets

  Dan Frith | November 25, 2008 11:46 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  Nora Quezada was involved in a July 4 traffic accident in Waynesboro, Virginia that killed a moped rider, 50 year old James Baber. The victim died from his injuries at the University of Virginia...

• Mental Patient's Death Results in Firings

  Dan Frith | November 25, 2008 11:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  North Carolina (Raleigh) officials said Wednesday that they fired three Cherry Hospital employees and disciplined others after the death of a mental patient who went without food, water and care for...

• Death in a West Virginia Nursing Home

  Dan Frith | November 18, 2008 10:40 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  The family of a man who was hit and killed by a train last month after he wandered off from a Kanawha City (WV) nursing home filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the facility. The lawsuit, filed...

• Resident Dies After Attack in Nursing Home

  Dan Frith | November 13, 2008 12:05 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Talk about a disturbing report. Weslaco, Texas police say 84-year-old Raul Saldivar was in bed Friday night when a 48-year-old fellow resident entered the room and begin hitting him with some...

• Medical Information and Privacy

  Dan Frith | November 12, 2008 1:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  I received a telephone call the other day from a woman whose adult mother was in the hospital. The woman is a single (working) mother and had just been told by her mother's nurse that she (the...

• U.S. Nursing Homes Get Bonuses Despite Violations

  Dan Frith | November 10, 2008 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  If this story wasn't so sad it would be funny! The Des Moines Register is reporting that nursing homes throughout the country are eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded...

• U.S. Hospitals Record Record Profits in 2007

  Dan Frith | November 07, 2008 2:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The next time you are in a conversation about the reasonableness of hospital bills...throw out the number $43 billion. That's right... $43 billion is the amount of profit made by American hospitals...

• Will Obama's Win Improve Care Provided by Nursing Homes?

  Dan Frith | November 05, 2008 3:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Democratic candidate Barack Obama last night was elected the next President of the United States. America's first African-American President - pretty big news! Obama will face many problems and...

• Seniors - Get Your Flu Shots!

  Dan Frith | November 04, 2008 6:33 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  It's that time of year again...flu season! And seniors are especially at risk for complications from the flu. Don't believe me, well how about these facts: 5-20% of the U.S. population...

• Want to Improve the Care Provided in Nursing Homes?

  Dan Frith | November 03, 2008 2:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  If you do, there are two very good ways which immediately come to mind. First, spend time there and not just during the day. Go at night and on the weekends. Watch and Listen! Be an advocate for...