What are your thoughts on the rising attention given to telemedicine? Are we more at risk, using clinicians miles away and viewing resident conditions and records off-site? What precautions or pre-conditions...
Ask the legal expert about … employees’ social media choices
By
John Durso
Jan 08, 2018
One of our employees has public photos on Facebook where he’s in drag, and a board member complained. How should we tackle employees doing potentially embarrassing things away from work, yet in a...
Ask the legal expert: Can we go after this contractor if the family wants to sue us or regulators want...
By
John Durso
Jul 01, 2021
A contractor did some shoddy work installing flooring that we didn’t catch right away and a patient wound up falling and injuring herself. Can we go after this contractor if the family wants to sue us...
Ask the legal expert … about gun violence in facilities
By
John Durso
Jun 01, 2013
A resident smuggles a gun into our facility and shoots a worker who, she says, has been treating her harshly or disrespectfully. What’s our recourse?
Ask the legal expert: How can we fight removal of tax exempt status?
By
John Durso
Dec 01, 2011
John Durso, Esq., Ungaretti & Harris LLP
Ask the legal expert: What can we do about new admissions who stash their assets for Medicaid eligibility?
By
John Durso
Jul 05, 2012
Senior living facilities have little, if any, ability to influence an individual’s decision to set up an irrevocable trust or some other type of tax shelter before the individual applies for occupancy...
Reducing readmissions: Physician services enabled by telemedicine in SNFs
By
John Durso
and John Whitman
Nov 04, 2013
When a resident of a skilled nursing facility has an acute event after hours or on weekends, the on-site nurse will generally call the patient’s primary care physician. Over the telephone, the nurse...