Bed Sore Verdict Against Assisted Living Facility & Home Health Care Agency
I never served on a jury before. So I'll have to imagine how difficult it is to serve as the decision-maker in a pending case. Particularly when evidence is presented by skilled lawyers, I imagine there must be an element of second-guessing both the sincereity of the witnesses and lawyers involved. In trials involving the development of bed sores at a nursing home or hospital, the frequent defense arguments center around both inevitability of the wounds and perhaps where the actual wound originated. While these arguments indeed have their place, my experience is that these arguments are brought into play...
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Who's To Blame For Bed Sores In The Obese? Or Are They An Inevitable Part Of Being Fat?
An article published in the Las Vegas Sun, painted an unfortunately common set of circumstances; an overweight patient goes into a hospital for a medical procedure-- only to acquire pressure sores during their stay. Sure, the same scenario can (and most certainly does) occur with people of average stature, but there definitely is a disproportionate number of obese patients who enter a hospital or nursing home only to develop a lingering souvenir. The sun article concentrates on 60-year-old Tyrone Bush, a maintenance man, who was admitted to Desert Springs Hospital for a quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2008. It was...
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Over 500,000 Adults Suffer From Bed Sores In Hospitals
On the heels of the Nursing Homes Abuse Blog's recent discussion regarding an increase in hospital-related pressure sore cases, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a report further confirming the problem. Perhaps most the most startling finding from the agency's report is that hospitalizations for bed sores (also called decubitus ulcers, pressure ulcers, pressure sores) have increased by more than 80% from 1993 to 2006. This increase includes people who were admitted to the hospital because of pressure sores or developed them while being treated for another condition in the hospital. Among the more disturbing 'highlights' in the...
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