In this article, entitled “Corporate asset protection: Shielding your practice from lawsuits, threats“, by David B. Mandell, JD, MBA, and Jason M. O’Dell, MS, CWM, the two write an entire article aimed to “protect a medical practice or healthcare business against lawsuits and potential creditor threats.”  This is the sick reality of hospital care, nursing home […]

As an attorney who has lived in South Carolina his entire life – and seen the good, bad, and ugly of the hospitals – I hate the fact that the average citizen never hears much about the bad and the ugly but only the “spin” of the hospitals and the alleged good they do.  Far […]

A jury in Charleston, South Carolina today awarded $50,000,000.00 in an automobile accident death case.  I believe this is the largest verdict in South Carolina history in a personal injury lawsuit. The case involved a wrongful death claim brought by a woman whose husband was killed five years ago by a driver who ran a red-light, […]

from the New York Times Watchful Eye in Nursing Homes Jonathon Rosen A pretty nightie, a new lipstick, a fresh toothbrush: Doris Racher noticed that small things she had bought for her 96-year-old mother, Eryetha Mayberry, a dementia patient at a nursing home in Oklahoma City, had been disappearing. Ms. Racher assumed the culprit was […]

The corporations that own and operate Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, and even Hospitals are really, really, good at one thing – unfortunately its not providing care.  What they are good at is the business of self-promotion at all cost to their patients.  The assisted living and nursing home industry, along with the hospitals they shuffle […]

    As more and more elderly Americans choose to spend their later years in assisted living facilities, FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine whether this loosely regulated, multi-billion dollar industry is putting seniors at risk? Our film, “Life and Death in Assisted Living”; you can also download the full written series as an e-book.   Joan Boice […]