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Is Insufficient Medicare Funding Diminishing Nursing Home Quality?

In a field hearing of the House Human Services Committee in Texas March 13, Tim Graves said the quality of care given in Texas nursing homes is adversely affected by a lack of state and federal funding. The state of Texas' Medicaid reimbursement rate...

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

Prescription Drugs are Given Over 25% More than Five Years Ago

8-28-2007 More and more possibly unnecessary drugs are prescribed, but ironically much needed medications, such as Herceptin for breast cancer, have been denied to patients because of costs. Health experts say the rise in prescription numbers is due in part to medical advances, and that...

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

Nursing Home To Pay $100,000 Fine for Patient’s Death

A California nursing home received its second state citation in two years following the death of a 94-year-old woman who wandered away from the nursing home last November. The California Department of Public Health fined the Palomar Heights Care Center $100,000 in January for not...

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

$600 Million Fine for OxyContin Manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP

Purdue Pharma LP, a private US drug firm, agreed to over 600 million dollars after pleading guilty Thursday to minimizing the risks of its OxyContin pain tablets, government prosecutors said. The Justice Department said Purdue and some of its top executives pleaded guilty to "misbranding"...

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

Botulism Infection Affects People Who Have Not Eaten Contaminated Food

Tens of millions of botulism contaminated cans of chili, hot dog sauce, beef stew, hash and other foods, have been recalled but some stores continue to carry the botulism infected canned foods on their shelves simply because they are not aware of the issue....

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

2-year-old dies after being bound with tape in day care

On May 19, 2007 a Tulsa, Oklahoma day care worker was being held without bail Saturday in the death of a 2-year-old boy whose hands were bound and his mouth covered with masking tape, police said. The boy, who had been on life support,...

09 March, 2009 / 0 Comments

Is Insufficient Medicare Funding Diminishing Nursing Home Quality?

Prescription Drugs are Given Over 25% More than Five Years Ago

Nursing Home To Pay $100,000 Fine for Patient’s Death

$600 Million Fine for OxyContin Manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP

Botulism Infection Affects People Who Have Not Eaten Contaminated Food

2-year-old dies after being bound with tape in day care

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