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Transcript: According to Federal and Georgia regulations, a resident who enters a nursing home without a bedsore should not develop a bedsore unless that resident’s specific condition demonstrates that the injury is unavoidable. Unavoidable means that a bedsore developed despite the nursing home’s...

Transcript: The Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool, shortened to ‘BWAT,’ is a test used to monitor bedsores. The BWAT contains 13 items that describe the characteristics of the wound for purposes of categorization and treatment. The characteristics include wound size, depth, edges, undermining, nec...

Transcript: Skin turgor is an indicator of the level of fluid loss to a nursing home resident. To assess skin turgor, the health care provider pinches the skin, normally for a few seconds, so that the skin is folded up and away from the body. Generally, the location is the back of the hand or forea...

Transcript: According to Federal guidelines, nursing home abuse is defined as the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish. Every resident has a right to be free from mistreatment, neglect, and abuse. ...

Transcript: Bedsores, also called pressure sores, pressure ulcers, or decubitus ulcers, are an injury to the skin and tissue. Bedsores are a serious problem in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and even hospitals, and affect persons that have difficulty moving, like those in wheel chairs, ...

A decision has finally been reached in a lawsuit filed back in 2010.  The lawsuit, which was filed against Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC, its two owners, and related companies, was filed in Shelby County Tennessee. The Shelby County jury awarded the family $30 million for the ...

For our elder loved ones, nothing is more important than finding a quality care facility when the time comes.  Nursing Home Compare has been tracking the quality of nursing homes since 1998.  Their latest results are shocking: if you have elderly loved ones in Georgia, you might be hard-pressed to f...

With the recent headline making news of nursing home employees taking and sharing pictures of residents in vulnerable positions, new regulations have needed to go into effect.  Though some would consider such regulations to be common sense, it is clear that the rules need to be spelled out.  The Cen...

When faced with the decision to place a loved one in a nursing home, many people decide to research online for the best available.  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has the website Nursing Home Compare to help family members do just that.  However, after a New York Times article r...

The close confines and open common rooms can make nursing homes breeding grounds for communicable conditions.  If proper procedures to confine the outbreaks of certain illnesses are not taken, such conditions can infect many of the residents.  When this happens, the nursing home can be cited for fai...