Recent Posts in Nursing home abuse Category
Posted on May 17, 2012 By James Roane
I am from Cherryville and graduated from Cherryville H.S. in 1987. I was just looking online to see what personal injury attorneys practice in Cherryville. Not many. When I Googled, "Cherryville ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By James Roane
Finally, nursing homes may cynically, and unfortunately, accurately argue that very few nursing homes in North Carolina provide staffing at RUG staff time expectations. Therefore, how could this be ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2012 By James Roane
Nursing homes will argue that the RUG scores are for Medicare residents only, and that most of their residents are paid by Medicaid. Since the Medicaid reimbursement is a lot lower, the number of ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2012 By James Roane
The Staff Time and Resource Intensity Verification (STRIVE) study evaluated the relationship between reimbursement and the actual staffing required to provide care per RUG score. [i] This study was ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2012 By James Roane
From 1965 until 1998, nursing home facilities were paid on a cost-based reimbursement system by combining cost reports with the number of patient days. In 1998 payment was switched to Prospective ...
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Posted on Mar 22, 2012 By James Roane
Facility information on staffing can be found through a variety of sources. The primary pre-suit source of information is the facility licensing file. Of course, you should never file suit without ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2012 By James Roane
All nursing home staff, defendants and most attorneys state that the minimum staffing requirement in North Carolina is 2.1 nursing hours per patient day (nhppd) based on the administrative code. [i] ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By James Roane
How much staff is needed in a skilled nursing facility to provide reasonable care? Of course, the specific answer depends on who you ask. Since "he who pays the piper calls the tune" and ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2011 By James Roane
W. Va. high court rules forced arbitration clauses in nursing home agreements are unconscionable While the court found that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state law providing that any ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2010 By James Roane
In a recent report by CBS News , around one-third of the nursing homes studied by congress have been cited for abuse. Such instances of abuse included verbal abuse, choking, assaults and even death. ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2010 By James Roane
Most lawyers can handle car wreck cases, few lawyers can properly handle wrongful death cases. Make sure that you hire a lawyer who has litigated wrongful death cases before, and ideally has tried ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2010 By James Roane
Over the years, cases about hot coffee and bad dry cleaning have created somewhat of a jury bias against injury lawyers and plaintiffs. However, the fact remains that if a person is in a serious ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2010 By James Roane
Something that is obvious and well-known to trial lawyers is that many cases don't just depend on the facts of the case, the cases also depend on where they are filed. In North Carolina, personal ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2010 By James Roane
The law of North Carolina and most states allow recovery for pain and suffering. However, there is no other area of damages that has a tendency to cause reluctance or rejection by juries. Pain is not ...
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Posted on May 13, 2010 By James Roane
Wrongful death cases can be very difficult to litigate and prove damages. Some jurors think that money will not bring the deceased person back, so why bother? These jurors must be made to understand ...
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Posted on May 10, 2010 By James Roane
Most of the major nursing home chains are requiring new residents to sign Arbitration Agreements. These agreements waive the right to a jury trial, and any potential case will be tried in front of ...
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Posted on May 8, 2010 By James Roane
Some residents in nursing homes don't have the same sense of thirst, and they must be encouraged to drink. If they aren't encouraged to drink and monitored, they can become dehydrated very quickly. ...
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Posted on May 6, 2010 By James Roane
In a nutshell, avoid the nursing home chains. I have been handling nursing home cases for around seven years. I have litigated maybe around fifty of these cases, tried many to jury trials and ...
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