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Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Nursing Home Suffocation Death
A nursing home stay after surgery or major medical treatment is sometimes necessary for the patient to receive inpatient rehabilitation services such as physical therapy and/or occupational therapy...
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Texas Medical Malpractice Claim For Bugs Crawling Down Man’s Tracheal Tube
A Texas medical malpractice case that was filed on January 12, 2012 alleges that when the two sons of a hospitalized patient visited their father in a Houston, Texas area hospital last year, they were...
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Nursing Home Medical Malpractice — Not Just A Problem In The U.S.
Nursing home medical malpractice is not just a phenomenon in the United States. Other countries have to deal with the consequences of medical malpractice that occur in nursing homes. As an example, a...
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Kansas Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
A licensed practical nurse (LPN) who worked in a Topeka, Kansas nursing home was supposed to administer morphine to a 105-year-old nursing home resident who had dementia and was in severe chronic pain...
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Minnesota Medical Malpractice Caused Choking Death
A Minnesota nursing home resident choked to death on March 18, 2011 while eating fruit from his dinner tray because the nursing home staff failed to supervise the 90-year-old man while he was eating,...
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Michigan Medical Malpractice Leads To Broken Neck
A 90-year-old World War II vet who had Alzheimer’s disease and poor balance was supposed to never be left unattended where he could possibly fall. Unfortunately, a privately contracted nursing aide...
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Chicago Medical Malpractice Results In Elderly Man Freezing To Death
The 77-year-old male resident of a Chicago nursing home had a habit of wandering off from the premises. With a history of two previous recent incidents when he had wandered away, he was a known risk...
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result...
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first...
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Iowa Nursing Home Fall Results In $15,000 State Fine
State nursing home regulators in Iowa have announced that a nursing home in Washington, Iowa has been fined $15,000 as a result of an investigation into a resident’s fall at the nursing home. According...
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