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You wouldn’t think this would be a problem…but it is. Many nursing homes accept residents with severe psychiatric problems, histories of criminal conduct, or repeated aggressive and threatening behavior towards others.
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I shared with our readers the outrageous and unfair admission agreement/contract used by Trinity Mission Nursing Home here in Virginia in a previous post last week. To say the admission agreement used by this nursing home chain is “one-sided” would be a huge understatement.
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“Positional asyphxia” is a fancy term for a terrible, but preventable, problem. Positional asphyxia, is also known as postural asphyxia, is a form of asphyxia which occurs when someone’s position prevents them from breathing adequately. In the nursing home setting, this life-threatening problem is more frequent due to the use of bedrails.
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I just read about a tragedy which, unfortunately, happens all too frequently but could have been avoided.
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I have seen some unfair and unreasonable admission agreements prepared by nursing homes…but the agreements now used by Trinity Mission take the cake!
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Not that this story is news but the Roanoke Times ran an article recently which was also published in USA Today. The article was titled, “Many Doctors Don’t Blow Whistle on Colleagues” and was based upon a study published by the Journal of the America Medical Association.
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I opened Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly today, a weekly newspaper that reports on Virginia cases, laws, etc., and read about 3 medical malpractice cases where the doctors won.
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Are you concerned that your loved one did not receive the care he or she deserved at a Virginia nursing home?
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We hear complaints on a regular basis about hospital patients who are seriously injured due to falls.
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As followers of this blog know, we report and discuss many preventable tragedies and deaths which occur at assisted living facilities and nursing homes. It has gotten almost to the point where these instances of abuse and neglect are reported weekly by some newspaper in the United States.