The HealthGrades Guide to America’s Hospitals and Doctors was released last month with important information for consumers about the quality of virtually every hospital in the country. The reference guide also devotes several chapters to getting the best medical care, from finding the best doctor and hospital to protecting yourself from medical errors.
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Abuse and neglect of Florida’s elderly have risen a dramatic 15 percent in the past year, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel. So far this fiscal year, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has received about 4,050 reports from Orange, Osceola, Brevard and Seminole counties alone.
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Nursing home patients and their families are increasingly giving up their right to sue over negligent care including death, even as claims of poor treatment are on the rise, according to a Wall Street Journal report. More and more, nursing homes are including mandatory binding arbitration agreements in their contracts, a clause that can […]

A registered nurse is scheduled to go on trial in Orange County, Florida today in a case involving an alleged sexual assault of a 38-year-old hospital patient. It is not the first time nurse Kevin Laing has been accused of inappropriate conduct, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel. He was never […]

Florida cut nursing home reimbursements for Medicaid patients by 3 percent effective January 1, 2008; now paying an average of just $7.21 per patient per hour to feed, house and care for nursing home patients. “Personally, I pay my children’s babysitter more,” Mark Niemeyer, an administrator with administrator of Adventist Care Centers-Courtland, told the […]