Comments on: $20 million for nursing home death

By: sheri Kirkland

sheri Kirkland — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:34:39 +0000

Have you ever been to a Beverly Enterprises home? I have. I suggest you read up on their scores and the number of deaths as a result of severe neglect. Have you even bothered to understand the constant changing of hands of these homes to avoid lawsuits. Again, I suggest you read up on it. Have you bothered to look into why there are such a high number of ambutees in nursing homes. Its is not because of diabetes, Look into it and learn about medicare fraud,its a much bigger problem and sucking more money out of our economy tha lawsuits ever will.

By: Sheri Kirkland

Sheri Kirkland — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:28:52 +0000

And by the way, I know of 3 documetaries currently in production (2 by major actors who decided to make a film about these homes while trying to find one for a parent). They have no financial motive – only a heartfelt desire to let people looking a nusring homes for their parents make informed decisions; so it will be most interesting to see if you decide to post my recent email to you.

By: sheri Kikland

sheri Kikland — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:24:58 +0000

I know 3 people whose parent has died as a result of ‘acute neglect’ by a nursing home. If it wasn’t for the the lawyers who chose to go up against a heavily consolidated nursing home ‘for profit’ industry, these 3 friends would have had to accept this neglect in silence. The lawyers are heros to people who have lost loved one uneccesarily.Where is it written that these homes should get away with murder?

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Sat, 06 May 2006 01:27:29 +0000

Rising costs at the nursing home may also have something to do with the fact that “11 of the 13 nurses on duty were on a break” at one time.

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:21:11 +0000

Nursing home litigation is a growth industry. America’s population is getting older, and needs to be stuck somewhere because extended families don’t live together. Nursing homes are slow-moving targets for opportunistic litigation because everyone there is suffering from medical problems and about to die anyway. The staffs are often low-paid, but even if they’re as careful as can be, Mother Nature (or the Grim Reaper) is going to step in at some point. All a plaintiff needs is to show the “terrible” conditions of the home (often no worse than people’s homes, but when it comes to grandma and grandpa, only the Ritz will do) and make the connection. So, the homes make unsympathetic defendants. Juries (and families of plaintiffs) will transfer their own guilt about parking their parents and channel it into anger at the nursing home industry. That’ll make for verdicts like the one in this story.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:34:55 +0000

Because, you know, the average lifespan of an 84-year-old smoker is… wait, that’s a NEGATIVE number!