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1 in 4 Massachusetts Nursing Homes Has a Severe Deficiency: How Can You...
Families for Better Care has given Massachusetts a grade of “B” on the first ever state-by-state nursing home report card. Massachusetts was the 19th best state in terms of the quality of nursing homes...
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Feeding Tube Dangers Substantial for Boston Dementia Patients
Alzheimer’s disease is cruel. It will steal a person’s memories, ability to speak, mobility and ultimately, their independence. In many cases, it will also cause patients to lose the ability to eat. At...
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Massachusetts Supreme Court Looks at Arbitration Agreements in Nursing Home...
Arbitration agreements are increasingly common in nursing home contracts. Arbitration agreements stipulate that if there is a dispute between the nursing home resident and the nursing home facility, it...
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Nursing Home Neglect: Patients Victimized by Medication Errors
Elderly patients, especially those who require nursing home care, are likely to depend on one or more drug prescriptions. Medication errors have been recognized as a common and growing problem in...
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Most Nursing Home Injuries Are Preventable
Nursing home patients that require a number of treatments and care are at risk of serious injury or fatality when not properly attended. In any nursing home, patient care is critical to the health and...
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Walker v. Collyer – Non-Signatory Can’t be Forced to Arbitrate, Mass. Court...
Usually when we come across the issue of nursing home arbitration agreements, we are looking at it from the perspective of the patient and his representatives attempting to avoid an arbitrator and...
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Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society v. Kolesar – Nursing Home...
Increasingly, nursing homes and long-term care facilities are seeking ways to shield themselves from litigation stemming from neglect, abuse or negligence by shoving arbitration agreements in front of...
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Sexual Abuse a Risk in Boston Nursing Homes
Many different types of elder abuse can occur in nursing homes in the Boston area. While most people worry about physical and financial abuse as primary risks for seniors, sexual abuse is a real...
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Mattox v. Life Care Centers of America: Nursing Home Wrongful Death
Sometimes a loved one or family member reaches a point where they can no longer receive sufficient care at home. While it is often a difficult decision, arranging for a loved one to enter into a...
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Video Cameras Could Prevent Boston Nursing Home Abuse
Family members who must place relatives in nursing homes have plenty of legitimate reasons to be concerned about whether their parents or loved ones are getting appropriate care. Recently, the New York...
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Death at Mass. Nursing Home Raises Legal Questions
A resident of a South Dartmouth nursing home was alive at the age of 100 to celebrate her birthday with her son and his three children. She was dead a month later, and it was not a natural death...
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Massachusetts Nursing Home Neglect Cited in Two Deaths at Single Facility
Substandard care was cited by state regulators as the cause of death by a second nursing home resident at a facility in Wilmington. Authorities called out the Woodbriar Health Center for placing...
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Nursing Home Staffers Condemn Budget Cuts
Representing thousands of Massachusetts nursing home workers, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East penned a letter to state lawmakers recently, urging them to fight back on Gov. Charlie...
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Nursing Home Negligence Cited in Scathing State Review of Brockton Facility
The aides and nurses at the Braemoor Health Center lacked the fundamental knowledge necessary to save the life of a dementia patient suffering a heart attack in their care. The facility also neglected...
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Cleveland Nursing and Rehabilitation, LLC v. Estate of Annie Mae Gully:...
Cleveland Nursing and Rehabilitation, LLC v. Estate of Annie Mae Gully, a case from the Mississippi Supreme Court, weighs whether a nursing home breached its duty of care to an elderly patient who died...
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Report: Sexual Abuse in Nursing Homes a Pervasive Problem
All forms of sexual abuse are under-reported. However, sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape involving nursing home residents is vastly under-reported and is far more pervasive than probably any...
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Nursing Home Injuries in Greater Boston Area
It is always a difficult time when we can no longer take care of a loved one at home and it becomes time to have them live at a nursing home or other type of assisted care facility. While this is not...
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Report: Nursing Home Neglect Higher in For-Profit Facilities
There are simply some fields for which non-profit ventures are generally better suited. Nursing home care appears to be one of those. A recent report by Kaiser Health News appears to back growing...
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