When a loved one is placed in a long-term care facility, it is expected that he or she will receive the appropriate care. Nursing home abuse is not something anyone expects, but when it occurs, it can go unreported. This is due to an elderly victim's altered mental...
Year: 2013
Alleged overuse of cardiac stents linked to deaths
More than 7 million Americans in the last ten years have had a cardiac stent used to open up a blocked or partially blocked artery. The costs of this procedure are staggering, with estimates putting the price tag at over $110 billion. When used in patients that have...
Birth injury prompts mother to raise awareness of Erb’s palsy
An expectant mother wants nothing more than to have a healthy baby. Mothers in Kentucky and around the country are aware that there are sometimes complications during birth that can cause injury to the baby if the physician and medical staff do not act promptly or...
Report – VA Medical Center emergency room excessive wait times
The wait times at some hospital emergency rooms have been notoriously long. Triage nurses work diligently to try to determine which patients require immediate attention for possible life-saving treatment, while other patients can wait several hours to be seen by...
Second man arrested in Kentucky nursing home neglect incident
Nursing homes are tasked with the care of our elderly loved ones, which are some of Kentucky's and this nation's most vulnerable citizens. When nursing home neglect or abuse occurs, it can often go unreported because it goes unnoticed. Unfortunately, many of the...
Kentucky man sues doctors and others after misdiagnosis of HIV
It is hard to imagine what it would be like to believe you were living with HIV for eight years, and then suddenly learn you never even had the virus. That is exactly what happened to a 43-year-old man from Kentucky, though. He was misdiagnosed back in 2004 after a...
Family of woman who died from flesh-eating bacteria sues hospital
When someone goes to a hospital for medical treatment, they expect to receive the appropriate care. This does not always happen, though. Medical errors can and do occur, and sometimes with deadly consequences. While the following case did not happen in Kentucky, it...
Jury awards $10.8 million in medical negligence case
In a perfect world, any care given by a medical professional would always be correct. There would be no misdiagnosis, no doctor errors and no hospital negligence. Unfortunately, the world we live in is far from perfect and medical negligence and malpractice happens...
Neglected dental care in nursing home an ‘epidemic’
According to many dentists, neglected oral care in nursing homes is not only leading to horrible pain for residents, but it can lead to other health problems, as well. Studies have shown that poor dental care in the elderly can be a contributing factor in pneumonia....
Kentucky Infant’s death leads to lawsuit
A hospital and two physicians in Fort Logan, Kentucky, as well as a clinic in Stanford, have been named as defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit by the parents of an infant boy who died last month. The mother and father, who live in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, filed...
