“Superbugs” such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus and a new strain of Clostridium difficile are becoming much more prevalent. They are difficult to resolve, require more powerful antibiotics with side effects and sometimes cause death. They are especially dangerous if you have a co-occurring challenging health condition. Our clients come to us with difficult stories about how [...]
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 [...]
Amazingly, sometimes doctors or physicians assistants in Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach, Deltona and other Volusia County cities misdiagnose your health condition because they do not recognize classic symptoms of heart attacks. Some symptoms of heart attacks are also symptoms of the flu, such as nausea, coughing, difficulty getting a deep breath and weakness. Many [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
