Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Senior surveillance proposed in care facilities

  Billy Cunningham | May 14, 2009 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Nevada’s Legislature is considering a bill that would allow patients in care facilities or their families or guardians install surveillance devices in the patients' rooms. Sen. Barbara...

• Jury Awards Nursing $6.5 million in Nursing Home Patient Death

  Billy Cunningham | May 01, 2009 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The Columbus Ohio Dispatch reported that a jury returned a verdict against Whetstone Gardens & Care Center due to the death of Peter Southard by dehydration- lack of water. Mr. Southard had...

• Nursing Home Bonus Bill

  Billy Cunningham | April 04, 2009 10:09 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  According to an article in the Des Moines Register by Clark Kauffman, Congress is considering legislation that would eliminate taxpayer-funded bonuses to nursing homes. The amendment to a...

• Provisions of the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act

  Billy Cunningham | March 27, 2009 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Last week I wrote a blog on the proposed Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act introduced in the Senate. This week, let’s explore some of the provisions of that bill . It will enable...

• One in Ten Nursing Home Residents Had Pressure Sores

  Billy Cunningham | February 27, 2009 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  In a February, 2009 report from the Department of Health and Human Resource’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention it was revealed that one in ten residents in nursing homes in 2004...

• Nursing Home Arbitration Bill

  Billy Cunningham | January 08, 2009 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  With a new administration ready to be sworn in and some significant changes in Congress there is real optimism that the S. Bill 2838, Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act may actually pass this...

• Feds Give State Veterans' Home Failing Grades

  Pete Mackey | January 06, 2009 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The William F. Green State Veterans Home in Bay Minette, Alabama was severely critcized in a report by Federal inspectors released last month. The inspection, conducted in February of 2008, found...

• The Need for Greater Protection for US Nursing Home Patients

  Gaines Drago | August 19, 2008 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Many of our nation’s elderly have spent their entire lives supporting this county, be it through their service, their investment, their guidance, or any other fathomable form of aid, and...

• Nursing Homes Demanding Arbitration/How To Draft A Power Of Attorney To Prevent Arbitration

  Billy Cunningham | June 24, 2008 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  How to draft a Power of Attorney to prevent binding arbitration in Nursing Home cases.

• Lawrence Place Nursing Home Ordered to Close

  Chrissie Cole | March 02, 2008 2:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The owners of Lawrence Place Assisted Living have been ordered to close and seek relocation of its residents by midnight, Monday, after allegations of nursing home abuse.A Franklin County Judge ordered the facility to close following an emergency investigation by officials from the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) based on complaints that residents were at serious risk of elder abuse...