This expert served for many years as the Chief Research and Development Officer, President and Founder of a long-term care research and risk management company. He has conducted extensive research and analysis on a variety of public policy issues affecting the financing and delivery of long-term care services. He has published widely in scientific journals and his work has been quoted extensively. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and ...
This qualified expert received his PhD in architecture and environment-behavior studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MS in architecture from Texas A&M University, and his BArch in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a member of the Environmental Design Research Association. He has conducted extensive research in the areas of seniors' housing, nursing home ...
This expert has been the managing partner of a homecare firm for more than twenty years. Arizona Business Magazine has ranked this expert's firm among the top home health care agencies in the state for several years running, and he has been a recipient of the Better Business Bureau’s Business Ethics Award Winner. Additionally, he was selected to the advisory board for the Arizona Attorney General’s Taskforce Against Senior Abuse, advising the Arizona Attorney General ...
This expert is Board of Governors Professor in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the School of Social Work for a leading NJ University. At the Institute, he directs the Center for Health Services Research on Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Disease Management, and Outcomes, whose programs include the AHRQ-funded Center for Education and Research on Mental Health Therapeutics. He also is Chair of the Institute's Division on Aging and Associate ...
This expert is an extremely well-qualified internist with additional experience and interest in geriatrics, palliative medicine, and hospice care. She has published more 28 peer-reviewed primary publications, review articles, invited articles, abstracts and book chapters. This expert has also traveled, giving numerous presentations on geriatrics, palliative medicine and hospice care. She currently holds a physician position at one of the finest VA institutions in the ...
This expert has served as registered nurse for 45 years, and holds a Master's level certification in Gerontology. She is certified as an Advanced Professional by the Aging Life Care Association, and also serves as an Age Well Senior Services Consultant. She has served as the Founder and CEO of an elderly care management company for the last 10 years....
This qualified nursing home administration expert earned her BA in international hospitality management from the University of Tourism and Transport Studies and her MA in marriage and family therapy from Alliant International University. She is licensed in marriage and family therapy, residential care for the elderly and as a nursing home administrator. This expert has formerly served as a multi-site nursing home administrator for Elmcroft Senior Living and as a nursing ...
This highly qualified expert earned his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame and his MD from University of Texas-Houston Medical School. He is board certified in family medicine and has a comprehensive degree of experience with geriatric patients. This expert has experience in a range of primary care settings which centered around care for the elderly with complex medical issues. In addition, he has held impressive directorship roles of long term care and assisted living ...
This board certified expert has extensive experience working in Orthopedics and Gerontology. She has worked on quality assurance for a (Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) program, completing Level II incident reports and root cause analyses for adverse outcomes cases to determine the cause of injury and to prevent other incidents from occurring. Her clinical time is divided between direct patient care in a variety of settings and teaching and ...
A New Jersey nursing home that made headlines in April after an anonymous tip led investigators to discover 17 bodies packed into a tiny morgue is now facing a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in the Sussex County division…
The prevalence of falls among the elderly presents a major public health problem. According to The Joint Commission, a non-profit organization that accredits healthcare facilities and programs, falls resulting in serious injury are among the top 10 unanticipated events reported…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. v. Muse Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217447 The plaintiff claims the insurance expert’s testimony is not valuable…
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Oxford Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Guthrie v. Quitman County Hosp., LLC Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 183160 In this wrongful death case, the plaintiff moves to exclude the…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of California Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Elliott v. Versa CIC, LP Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197221 Facts This case involves alleged housing discrimination at a senior living community. The plaintiffs,…
Court: Court of Appeals of Kentucky Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Hazard Nursing Home, Inc. v. Ambrose Citation: 2013 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 596 Facts The respondent, an administrator of the deceased’s estate, filed a complaint against the appellant, a nursing…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Kansas Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Funk v. Pinnacle Health Facilities XXXII., LP Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 196660 The nursing home expert witnesses, retained by the plaintiff, opined on the causation.…
This case involves an elderly man with severe arthritis and dementia who fell in a hospital. The man was living in a nursing home and had been designated as a fall-risk patient by the facility. The man was rushed to…
This case involves an elderly male patient who was admitted to the nursing home after a hospital stay during which he contracted C-Difficile. Upon admission to the nursing home, the patient suffered from fecal incontinence due to the C-Difficile and…
This case involves an 80-year-old male with a history of hypertension and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. He had been off of the blood thinner Warfarin for several months when he presented to the emergency room with altered mental status. On initial exam, he…
This case involves an 83-year-old male patient who had been a resident of an assisted facility for a year following a stroke incident that left him paralyzed on one side of his body. The patient was confined to a wheelchair and…