An elderly patient was admitted to a Central Virginia nursing home after hospitalization for respiratory difficulties she suffered at home. On admission, her blood pressure was noted to be high. She was prescribed two anti-hypertensive medications to reduce her blood pressure,…

A 94-year-old nursing home patient fell from her geriatric chair to the floor. As a result of the fall, she sustained subarachnoid hemorrhages, a compression fracture to a vertebrae in her neck, and a compression fracture to a vertebrae in…

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Virginia and across the country are turning to arbitration agreements to keep their neglect and abuse from being scrutinized publicly in a court of law.  These provisions are frequently snuck into a mound of admissions…

An elderly patient of a Roanoke area hospital was allowed to fall from her hospital bed.  She was found by a nurse “face down” in the floor in a large pool of blood.  The fall was unwitnessed and occurred when…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sponsors a website called “Nursing Home Compare” that makes public lots of information about nursing homes across the country.  The CMS web site unfortunately does not require disclosures of the frequency or circumstances in which nursing homes…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sponsors a website called Nursing Home Compare that makes public lots of information about nursing homes across the country.  The CMS web site unfortunately does not require disclosures of the frequency or circumstances in which nursing…