At his biggest, and longest, healthcare policy address to date, President Obama on Monday stated that he’d been privately discussing the idea of liability reform with the American Medical Association...
Fire at unregistered Japanese nursing home kills 10, investigation gears up
Mar 24, 2009
Local authorities were set to start a formal investigation of an unregistered nursing home in Japan that was the site of a fatal fire late last week. The Thursday night fire wound up killing 10 residents...
House measure would outlaw nursing home arbitration clauses
May 23, 2008
Nursing home operators would be unable to subject residents and prospective residents to binding arbitration clauses under a bill introduced Thursday afternoon in the U.S. House. When a companion bill...
Researchers: Nursing home residents attacking each other more often than expected
Jun 04, 2008
Nursing home residents are lashing out at each other verbally, physically and in other ways more often than previously believed, according to Cornell University-based researchers.
An imperfect world calls for an increase in risk management
By
John Andrews
May 01, 2008
Falls and medication errors can lead to big problems. That is why providers need to be extra vigilant about prevention.