Four employees and a supervisor are being charged with abuse of a 94 year old Alzheimer’s patient. They punched the woman and stomped on her feet among other things. This abuse occured at night at the Kane Regional Center’s Glen Hazel facility. Another employee finally reported it after six months. The abuse occured during…
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Findings from Japans New Study
This is one of those studies which reminds us why studies are done, and in this case that’s a stretch. Even though the outcome of a study is or should be obvious, without proof through the study, it’s still just another theory. This particular study from Japan which made the newspapers, concludes that teens…
FDA Warns Against These Diet Pills
The FDA has found that the below list of weight loss aides have unsafe amounts of the following chemicals. Sibutramine, which is considered a controlled substance, Rimonabant which has not been approved here, Phenytoin, which is an anti seizure medicine, and Phenolphthalein, which is possibly cancer causing. The FDA is seeking product recalls, however…
New Nursing Home Ratings
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Web site now has a five star rating for 15,800 nursing homes. Many see this as a beginning for pay for performance for Medicare & Medicaid reimbursements. Nursing home owners see this system as not fair and incomplete. From one to five stars, five being the highest,…
Final Thoughts On Hospice
It’s been a while since my last post because I’ve lost both my parents. My mother unexpectedly died December 2 morning, and my father died December 4. We had hospice take my dad to a hospice unit in a hospital, where they were better staffed and equiped to care for him. I believe that…
Another Look At Hospice
I’ve had a fist hand look into hospice and want to change my opinion from my last post about the subject. My father is laying here with me right now in a hospital bed which was just put in his living room. He is out of it, with the severe pain, the morphine,…