There are many ways to try and prevent a Kentucky medication error from occurring. However, when it comes to your health, you are at the mercy of many other people including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and drug manufacturers. Because complete control is impossible, your best line…
When you are sick, you likely turn to a medical professional for help. As patients, we trust our health care providers to administer the correct medications. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Medication errors are a very real and prevalent problem in hospitals, doctors’…
Many families are hesitant to enlist the help of a Kentucky brain injury attorney when a loved one suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a Louisville car accident or some other accident caused by the negligence of another. However, when you are dealing with…
Louisville nursing homes are designed and created to be a sanctuary for the oldest of our society to live out the rest of their lives in peace and comfort. Unfortunately, these homes are also a means for their owners to make money and are often…
Summers in Kentucky can be hot. While this can be uncomfortable and inconvenient for healthy adults, it can be a health hazard and an extreme danger for senior citizens and nursing home residents. In fact, each time a heat wave rolls though our state, older…
Thousands of elderly Kentucky citizens live in nursing homes. All too often, we read stories of elderly nursing home residents who suffer from malnutrition, bedsores, falls, physical abuse, and medical neglect. Another form of neglect, social isolation, is more subtle, but no less harmful. Social…