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SC Nursing Home Lawyer Nathan Hughey Charleston Nursing Home Lawyer Nathan Hughey reached a settlement this week in a nursing home case in which we alleged that the nursing home covered up an incident where our client suffered bi-lateral fractures.  There was no mention of it whatsoever in the client’s records.  They only revealed “fractures […]

Nursing Home Case Settled Nicely. Family was told it was a “fracture of unknown origin”. Turns out failing to use the proper lift and dropping a resident was the origin after we investigated.

Billy Howard/PBS Cheryl Morgan holds a photo of her father, who died after drinking dishwashing liquid in an assisted living facility in Georgia. Ms. Morgan is featured in a new PBS documentary, “Life and Death in Assisted Living.” Assisted living underwent a big growth spurt in the 1990s as major corporations built and bought facilities, […]

Elizabeth Leis Newman Today in the annals of Nursing Homes That Should Know Better, we turn our attention to a rural part of Tennessee. There was an excellent Washington Post story over the weekend that ran about a food truck traveling through rural Appalachia. One of the families featured has five children who are hungry […]