Bed Sores Are Amongst Most Common Hospital Errors
Recognizing that the development of a bed sore during an admission to a hospital as something that simply should not occur, many facilities have begun to categorize their development for what they truly are--- a serious medical error. Bed sores now join a list of dreadful occurrences such as: operations on the wrong body part, patient suicides, foreign objects left in during surgery and deadly falls in the hospital as situations that simply shouldn't occur in the presence of proper medical care. According to reports in the Journal Gazette regarding serious medical errors in Indiana Hospital and surgery centers, the...
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Where Will Nursing Home Residents Go When Medicare Closes Dangerous Facilities?
I was reviewing the AARPBulletintoday, and they ran a story about Kentucky nursing home that was cited for reports of alleged nursing home abuse and neglect by nursing state nursing home inspectors. Winchester Centre for Health and Rehabilitation received a Type A citation- the most serious nursing home citation a state can give-- for problems related to 'medical errors' and consequently the federal government will terminate its Medicare / Medicaid funding. According to Kathy Gannoe, executive director of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass, prior to issuance of the Type A citation, the Winchester received 31 resident complaints...
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Feds Investigate VA Nursing Home For Dangerous Care
The Justice Department is investigating the quality of care at the Minneapolis Veterans Home in Minnesota. "Essentially they want to know if the civil rights of residents mights have been violated by not getting the care they should have," said Gil Acevedo, deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Veterans affairs, that operates the facility. What started this investigation is unknown. However, this veterans nursing home has had many problems in the past. Since 2005, the facility has 66 state rule violations, $42,300 in fines and was required to hire a consultant and monitor to look over it. Of the...
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The List Of 'Never Events' Grows
Effective 10/1/2008, hospitals and nursing homes will no longer be able to seek reimbursement from Medicare for medical conditions deemed preventable. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking states to coordinate Medicare and Medicaid policies to prevent facilities from billing Medicaid for preventable medical errors for individuals who may be eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Most nursing home residents are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. The 'never events' is a listing of 28 categorized errors that CMS has determined to be clearly preventable. CMS estimates that errors on the 'never list' account for $4.5 billion in...
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