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Recent Posts from Nursing Home Law Blog

• Good news on the Nursing Home Transparency Act

  Hot off the press is some very good news about generating more accountability for those who choose to profiteer off of the elderly and infirm. Below is an email alert I received from The National…

• Preventing Crippling Contractures in Nursing Homes

  I found an interesting article online which addresses the recent epidemic of contractures in nursing homes.Contractures are injuries, usually sustained by the elderly in nursing homes, which limit their mobility and range of motion. When residents…

• Omni Assets Management Employees Hold March in Hopes of New Contracts

  I read an article online last week about nursing home employees in Hudson County who held a “Family Day” march in Jersey City after working the last two years without contracts. The walk was held…

• Malpractice Reform - Not a Silver Bullet

  As we have been saying on this blog for some time, malpractice reforms have no place in the healthcare debate.  The real issues should be 98,000 needless deaths every year, unnecessary human suffering, the cost…

• Nurse abusing patients in Gloucester Manor, Kresson View, Rainbow Nursing Home and Others, Sentenced

  In a story that we've been following, nurse Devin Bonsall, has been sentenced for stealing medications and abusing many patients throughout the state at long term facilities across South Jersey. Bonsall plead guilty to theft…

• The real face of Medical Malpractice - A grieving mother speaks

  There is a human side to the nonsense spewed by the insurance industry about malpractice.  It's about needless suffering and tragedy.  It is the face of many tragic cases that a billion dollar industry and…

• Will Ferrell Video Stands Up For Health Care Victims

  Not lost on many people in this country is the fact that the real backers for tort reform are members of the extraordinarily profitable insurance industry - with the well funded lobbyists.  Here's a very…

• Nursing Home Litigation: Fitting in the OBRA Regulations

  David R. Cohen, Chair of Stark & Stark's Nursing Home Litigation Group, authored the article, Nursing Home Litigation: Fitting in the OBRA Regulations for the September 14, 2009 edition of the New Jersey Law Journal. The…

• Healthcare and Medical Malpractice Reform: An Elder Advocate Weighs In

  With great interest and no small degree of consternation I listened intently to President Obama's brief comments during his recent address on the so-called medical malpractice crisis and the national debate which has ensued.  A…

• Medicaid and Medicare Fraud: A Drain on US Healthcare

  As I have previously noted on this site, notably absent from the public debate on tort reform are three major issues:   The very significant money that malpractice claims recoup annually for US taxpayers for Medicare and…