Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, ...
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Stage 4 Bed Sores: How a Preventable Injury Signals a Larger Elder Care Crisis
For families in Southern Maryland, choosing a nursing home or long-term care facility is often one of the most difficult decisions they face. The expectation is simple: loved ones should receive ...
"Pressure ulcers develop when prolonged pressure on bony areas of the body restricts blood flow, leading to skin and tissue breakdown," said Valerie Hernandez, attorney at Greenstein & Pittari and ...
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — State police have charged a Somerset County man with involuntary manslaughter after a woman he was allegedly caring for died from one of the worst cases of bed sores one ...
Regional Medical Center again found itself behind other Memphis-area hospitals for patient safety, according to one report, scoring particularly low marks in MRSA infections and “dangerous bed sores.” ...
VERONA, Pa. – A Pennsylvania couple has been jailed in the death of a disabled man who weighed just 76 pounds when he died last year. Forty-eight-year-old Adam Haynes and 58-year-old Pamela McNeal, of ...
The 57-year-old man who died from septic shock, all because the Ohio Attorney General’s Office says staff at a Columbus nursing home neglected a bed sore. Criminal charges and a lawsuit were recently ...
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