by Christie D'Agostino | Feb 17, 2023 | antipsychotic drugs, bed sores, bedsores, Brian P. Murphy, CMS, nursing home abuse, nursing home attorney, Nursing Home Investigations, nursing home workers, nursing homes, wrongful death
Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use: CMS has announced it will conduct investigations into certain nursing homes in an effort to uncover illegitimate schizophrenia diagnoses and any accompanying inappropriate...
by Christie D'Agostino | Jan 3, 2023 | bed sores, bedsores, Brian P. Murphy, nursing home abuse, nursing home attorney, Nursing Home Lawsuits, nursing home neglect, nursing home reforms, nursing homes, philadelphia nursing home abuse attorney, wrongful death
Nursing Home Sued for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect: The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Cold Spring Hills diverted of tens of millions of dollars of government funding while engaging in repeated incidents of nursing home malpractice and slashing staffing to...
by Christie D'Agostino | Dec 14, 2022 | bed sores, bedsores, Brian P. Murphy, dementia, nursing home abuse, Nursing Home Investigations, nursing home neglect, nursing home workers, nursing homes, wrongful death
Nursing Homes Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia: A new government study indicates that anti-seizure medications usually reserved for epilepsy patients are increasingly being used by nursing homes to sedate dementia patients, says a...
by Christie D'Agostino | May 4, 2022 | bed sores, bedsores, Brian P. Murphy, nursing home abuse, nursing home attorney, nursing home data, nursing home neglect, nursing home workers, nursing homes
Nursing Home Residents with Diabetes at Higher Risk for Bedsores: Having diabetes increases the risk of developing pressure ulcers and may impede the kind of early detection that prevents dangerous bedsores stages. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
by Christie D'Agostino | Dec 28, 2020 | bed sores, Brian P. Murphy, nursing home deaths, nursing home neglect, serious infections
Although many patients recover from pressure ulcers, undiagnosed and untreated bedsores can cause osteomyelitis and other serious infections. Severe infections associated with bed sores can lead to sepsis and even death. Nursing home residents who are bedridden are at...
by Christie D'Agostino | Dec 28, 2020 | bed sores, Brian P. Murphy, nursing home attorney, nursing home neglect
More often than not, there’s a direct link between nursing home neglect and bedsores. What anyone who has a loved one in a nursing home needs to know is that, almost without exception, bed sores can be prevented through adequate care by nursing home care workers....
