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During our over 20 years of representing clients in nursing home abuse and malpractice litigation in Daytona Beach and Deltona we have noticed that the course of nursing home lawsuits is strikingly similar from one case to the next. Nursing homes often repeat the same mistakes such as failing to turn and reposition a patient [...]
Nursing home residents and their families all too often face very difficult choices about quality of life while in the nursing home. Some medical procedures extend life but can cause a serious deterioration in the quality of life. We have noticed over the years that our clients in Daytona Beach, Deltona, New Smyrna Beach, [...]
Unnoticed in most of the discussion about the economy in Washington is the probable effect of the recession on the elderly in nursing homes. Throughout the country state legislatures are debating reductions in reimbursement for nursing home services to be paid by Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare are considering similar reductions. Some nursing home [...]
A particularly dangerous form of infection for nursing home patients is often a result of taking antibiotics. Clostridium difficile, usually abbreviated as c. diff., has become more widespread and deadly for nursing home and hospital patients.
Many hospital and nursing home patients have to take antibiotics for some type of infection. For example, very [...]
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 [...]
