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.

Nursing homes without full sprinkler system will receive deficiency tag Nursing homes without an installed, fully functioning sprinkler system will be cited for a deficiency starting this month, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a memorandum released on Aug. 16, CMS clarified the sprinkler requirement that went into effect on Aug. 13. All nursing homes […]

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 […]

Nursing home slapped with $1.5 million fine over smoking policy enforcement, supervision A Virginia nursing home faces a $1.45 million verdict in a negligence suit involving a former resident who sustained severe burns. The resident, Joseph Roberts, brought the charges in 2011. In June of that year, he sustained severe burns while residing at Carriage […]

I, South Carolina nursing home attorney Nathan Hughey, have handled hundreds of nursing home cases.  That’s right.  Hundreds.  I began my career at a law firm that was hired by the nursing homes to defend them in South Carolina nursing home abuse claims and South Carolina nursing home wrongful death claims.  As a Charleston nursing […]