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Nursing Home Negligence
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Nursing Home Negligence |
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Nursing Homes in San Antonio and throughout Texas - while not all dangerously managed and poorly staffed - have been found by many to be inadequate in their care of some of the patients who trust in them.
Archived News and Reports Texas Nursing Homes Badly Understaffed In 2002, San Antonio Congressman Ciro Rodriguez released a special study by the U.S. House Committee that found South Texas nursing homes were badly understaffed. Click to read report. Public Places High Value on Elderly In a news report on the surge in suits against nursing homes, The Boston Globe noted, “The surge in suits does not appear to be a result of a deterioration of the care, researchers and lawyers said, but rather an increase in the value society puts on the lives of the elderly and an unwillingness to accept falls, bed sores, and diseases such as pneumonia as an expected part of the nursing home experience. “The biggest jury verdict awarded $312 million in 2001 to the son of a Texas woman so neglected in a Fort Worth nursing home that she suffered 16 bed sores, some severe enough that they penetrated to the bone. After the nursing home sought to overturn the verdict, the family agreed to accept a $20 million settlement to halt the appeal”, according to the Globe. Numerous Problems Found in Bexar County Nursing Homes by San Antonio Express-News An investigation of Bexar County nursing homes by the San Antonio Express-News found that most of the county’s nursing homes had 10 or more health violations during inspections between June 2001 and August 2002. Click to story Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Quality-Of-Care Problems Persist in U.S. Nursing Homes During the 1991-1997 period, nursing home residents became more dependent and sicker, says study. Many Americans remain concerned about the quality of care in nursing homes. A government study shows that these concerns may be justified. It found that quality-of-care problems persisted in the Nation's nursing homes from 1991 to 1997. Problems included poor food sanitation, failure to conduct comprehensive patient assessments and to develop care plans, poor accident prevention efforts, and failure to prevent pressure sores. Click to story 2003 Long Term Care Report State Issues Annual Report on Nursing Home Regulation The latest annual performance report by the Texas Department of Human Services’ regarding regulation of nursing facilities and similar provider types is loaded with detail information, including the top 10 complaints and top 10 deficiencies. Click to report Hundreds of Sex Offenders in America’s Nursing Homes Six are in their 90s, one convicted at 86 July 12, 2004 – A shocking study reveals hundreds of registered sex offenders living in nursing homes in 37 states across America, according to findings released yesterday by the non-profit disability and elder rights group, A Perfect Cause. Read story Nursing Home Care Improves in Many Areas, But Pressure Ulcers Rise Latest data from Nursing Home Quality Initiative released Dec. 23, 2004 – All states report a decrease in the prevalence of chronic pain in nursing home patients in the latest report from the Nursing Home Quality Initiative, which was launched two years ago by Health and Human Services. The most negative statistic in the report is that the percentage of patients with pressure ulcers has risen slightly since measurements began in June 2002, from 8.5 percent to 8.7 percent. Read story, links... 12/23/04* Senate Aging Committee Hears Alternate View on Tort Reform
July 15, 2004 – The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held their hearing today on Medical Liability in Long-Term Care without any consumer advocates but the committee chairman did not hear what he wanted from all the witnesses. At least one testified an alternative to tort reform could be improving the quality of care. More... |
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