New York Times Medicare Star Ratings Allow Nursing Homes to Game the System Five-Star Nursing Homes In 2011, Ken Chandler brought his elderly mother to a nursing home that had Medicare’s seal of approval, a five-star rating. After a series of troubling events there, Mr. Chandler now feels misled. Video Credit By Kassie Bracken and Taige […]

Nathan Hughey at Hughey Law Firm in Mt. Pleasant South Carolina handles nursing home cases.  Each case must be evaluated on its own facts and circumstances and this is not intended to imply the same or similar results. A complex web of corporations including Manor Care Inc. and HCR Manor Care Services, Inc. owns the […]

Nurses who use a smartphone at night for work-related reasons are likely to be less effective on the job the next day, according to recently published research from Michigan State University. The investigators surveyed more than 160 people working in a variety of occupations, including nursing. The questions measured how much the subjects monitored a […]

As a nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse attorney at Hughey Injury Lawyers, I have seen many horrific acts alleged to have taken place in various nursing homes.  These include abusing nursing home residents, beating nursing home residents, sexually assaulting nursing home residents, and, yes, even killing nursing home residents.  Nearly every time, when […]

From the Post and Courier. Patients can make choices about which hospital they use based on many factors, including advertisements on billboards and signs on the back of city buses. While annual hospital rankings published in magazines like U.S. News & World Report and Consumer Reports offer conflicting advice on the best places to seek […]

As a nursing home abuse attorney, I have seen time after time where accidents and injuries could have been prevented, had adequate, appropriately trained staff been employed by the facility.  Now it has been confirmed what we already knew, that the greedy companies that operate nursing homes are raking in money and unethically denying pay […]