By Marty Stempniak Nearly 1,400 nursing homes recently lost star ratings on the Nursing Home Compare website because of allegedly inadequate numbers of registered nurses on staff or failure to report reliable staffing information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated the ratings in late July, leaving 1,387 out […]
New Study Finds that Nursing Homes Routinely Cover up Inadequate Staffing An article published in the New York Times on Sunday, July 8, 2018 set forth startling facts about the staffing situations in nursing homes. As the article set forth, despite reporting to the government that there were adequate numbers […]
Former Owners of New York Otsego Nursing Home Charged with Endangering the Welfare of Residents Joseph Zupnik and Daniel Herman were formally charged with multiple misdemeanor charges. According to the New York Attorney General’s office, when the men took over Focus Otsego in 2014 they cut staffing and staff payroll […]
Despite Shakespeare’s request to kill all the lawyers, (uttered by Dick the Butcher in Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene II) lawyers play a vital role in our lives. Buying a house? Preparing a will? Getting separated or divorced? Establishing a Trust or a corporation? Have a workers compensation […]
New York Acts to Protect the Rights of Cancer Patients Patients Lavern’s Law Lavern’s Law is enacted in New York to protect the rights of cancer patients. The Statute of Limitations (the time one has to bring a lawsuit) that victims of medical negligence is typically two and a half […]
In a medical malpractice action, the destruction of medical records by a defendant can result in the imposition of punitive damages. In a recent Second Department case, a jury awarded $7.5 million in punitive damages against a defendant doctor because the proof showed that she had destroyed her handwritten treatment […]
A Minnesota nurse accidentally gave a resident a dose of oxycodone 20 times too strong, killing him within a few hours last year, according to a state investigation. The short-term resident, 53, was found on the floor at North Ridge Health and Rehabilitation in New Hope on April 2, 2017. […]
“Telemedicine” or “Telehealth” are the terms most often used when referring to clinical diagnosis and monitoring that is delivered by technology. Telemedicine encompasses healthcare provided via real time two-way video conferencing; file sharing, including transmission of health history, x-rays, films, or photos; remote patient monitoring; and consumer mobile health apps on smart […]
New Jersey Jury Awards $2M in Parking Lot Slip and Fall! A jury has awarded $2 million to a man who underwent back and neck surgery after he slipped on ice in a shopping center parking lot. The plaintiff fell while approaching a pedestrian walkway that was covered in runoff […]
Lavern’s Law is enacted in New York to protect the rights of cancer patients. The Statute of Limitations (the time one has to bring a lawsuit) that victims of medical negligence is typically two and a half years from when the negligence occurred, (tolling exceptions may apply). Currently, many cancer […]