State officials, advocacy groups, nursing home industry representatives, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are coming together in support of an initiative to decrease the use of excessive anti-psychotic drugs in nursing homes. According to an article by the Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky.com),…
According to an article on The Sacramento Bee, Legal-Bay has recently acquired $5 million which it has designated for lawsuit funding in vaginal or transvaginal mesh case suits, as well as those involving other mesh cases such as hernia mesh patches, Kugel mesh and bladder…
According to an article by Reuters, John Figueroa, CEO of Omnicare, a company that provides prescription drugs to hospitals and nursing homes, has resigned a month after the company was forced to pay a $50,000 settlement for allegedly distributing drugs to nursing home patients without a…
June 18, 2012 – Garrard County, Ky. – According to an article by the Lexington Herald-Leader, a man has pleaded guilty to murdering a mentally disabled resident of a nursing home, after first attempting to frame another resident for the crime back in 2011. Shawn…
Hospitals in Kentucky and other states may be more motivated to take medical safety more seriously with the news that more than a dozen hospitals in California now face heavy fines for deadly medical errors over the past year, including medication mistakes. A recent article…
June 18, 2012 – Jefferson County, Ky. – A man was killed when his motorcycle collided with an SUV in a JeffersonCounty intersection Saturday, June 16. WHAS11 reports that the accident happened at about 6 p.m. at the intersection of Green Belt Highway and Tradeport…