January 2013

Have you questioned her caregivers? That would be the first step.  In many nursing homes, the same caregivers are assigned to a resident to provide some consistency for him or her. See what they have to say, and pay attention to their facial expressions and…

In 1996, Dr. Edward C. “Terry” Watters became concerned about one of his patients who lived in a Maryland nursing home. He had been treating her for a sight-threatening condition, which seemed to be getting worse since his previous visit. Dr. Watters checked her chart…

Most of us in Kentucky have probably seen a cartoon or comic strip in which a surgeon frantically searches for his wristwatch, only to discover on an X-ray that he left it in the patient. We laughed, of course, or perhaps just shook our heads…

A for-profit business has to make money to stay afloat; there’s nothing surprising about that. But when that for-profit business is a nursing home and that nursing home short-changes its residents so that it can make more money, this is wrong. According to Bloomberg.com, a…

What’s one of the most germ-ridden locations in any town, including Louisville? Why, the hospital, of course! According to the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), hospital infections kill more people in the United States than do AIDS, breast cancer, and car accidents combined. Consider…

I recently came across a blog site called Nursing Home Reality, run by a fellow right here in Louisville. He seems passionate about making nursing homes the safe, caregiving facilities they are meant to be. The blogger points out that January is when most state…