In December 2012, Propublica, a non-profit group that engages in investigative journalism, released new information about nursing homes in the United States. According to the information gathered by Propublica, the state with the most serious nursing home deficiencies per home was Kentucky. What Kentuckians Need…
As people get older—old enough to be considered “elderly”—their risk of falling and sustaining hip injuries increases. Our bodies do what we tell them to do less and less; many of us have osteoporosis or muscle weakness; some of us suffer declines in our mental…
Alison Chisholm, a home care nurse in New York, came down with the flu a week after getting a flu shot. “It was so bad, my toenails were hurting. I had no appetite. I couldn’t move, I was so sore. I knew it was the…
You know that your parent, or other loved one, didn’t do anything to deserve being abused in a Kentucky nursing home. You love your parent, and you just want to help her get the recovery that she deserves. You are not at all concerned with…
If you go to the emergency room with chest pain, you would expect your doctor to listen to your heart—just as a broken toe would require him to examine your foot. So why would an anesthesiologist take your pulse to determine what’s happening in your…
It may not be easy to document every error that almost happens in a hospital. However, some experts, such as Paula Holbrook, associate director of risk management and clinical risk manager for the University of Kentucky Healthcare’s A.B. Chandler Medical Center, believe that it is…