Medicare rates nursing homes throughout the country with a five star rating system created to help consumers and their families to compare nursing homes. The ratings are based on health inspections, staffing levels and a variety of quality measures. Trained inspectors from state agencies do on-site inspections. Federal surveyors check on the state agency work [...]
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration is responsible for licensing and regulating nursing homes throughout the state of Florida. Each year the agency inspects nursing homes to determine whether they meet the standards for operation under Florida law.
Although the dates of inspection are not announced, nursing homes sometimes are able to anticipate when the [...]
Most of our clients are shocked when we tell them that their insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid want some or all of their settlement money or jury verdict awards. They do not think it is fair that they have paid insurance premiums and Medicare taxes for many years only to have the companies and Medicare [...]
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This post was written by Daytona Nursing Home and Medical Malpractice Lawyer on March 13, 2009
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Many of our clients have told us that when their elderly loved ones are in a hospital, nurses used wrist restraints and bedside rails to keep them from falling out of bed. Then after the hospital at a nursing home, the nurses claim that side rails cannot be used because they are “restraint’ and they [...]
Nursing homes are attempting to avoid prosecution for crimes against Florida’s elderly.
Amazing as it may seem, a pending legislative bill pre-filed in the 2009 Florida Legislature would allow nursing homes to commit crimes against their patients, neglect their patients and not be held accountable. Undoubtedly, nursing home lobbyists and special interests have proposed this bill. [...]
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This post was written by Daytona Nursing Home and Medical Malpractice Lawyer on March 12, 2009
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