Kentucky. Over the last decade, the nursing home industry made political contributions amounting at least $1.8 million to Kentucky politicians while lobbying against bills that would require nursing home owners and corporations to hire more direct-care employees, face higher fines for violations, and abide by…
A recent study that was conducted, based on a review of drugs taken by a group of elderly patients, found that more than half were taking the wrong medication. The review &/or interview of patients in the study revealed that medication dosage errors were also…
Another incident of a nationwide pharmacy chain drugstore, Walgreens, dispensing the wrong medication to a customer. This time, the medication error involved a baby’s prescription for hydrocortisone, but turned out to be the opiate painkiller, Oxycodone! The baby’s father picked up what he thought was…
According to the Kentucky New Era, the Governor of Kentucky wants a crackdown on nursing home abuse. Governor Steve Beshear is ordering state officials to take immediate steps to rectify the ongoing problem with nursing home abuse in Kentucky. In October, a report was released…
Millions of dollars awarded to victim of profitable company that put profits over people and ignored safety. The city bus and its contracted operations management company were ordered to pay more than $6 million to a wheelchair-bound man who was caused to roll backward and…
When a huge corporation with pharmacy retail stores nationwide mistakenly provided a cancer patient customer with stronger medication than prescribed by her doctor, the customer had no way of knowing of the pharmacy technician’s fatal medication error. The customer was carelessly given a blood thinner…