Nursing homes across the country have recently come under legal fire for varying degrees of mismanagement during the COVID-19 crisis. Because the novel coronavirus has caused such an unprecedented shift in healthcare protocol, proving negligent conduct in COVID-19 nursing home lawsuits will almost certainly require the support of a highly-qualified nursing home expert witness.
A nursing home expert witness can discuss:
How nursing home standards of care have been impacted by coronavirus
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compliance
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) compliance
Pandemic and quarantine protocols
Testing access and shortages
Protocols for restricting visitation and admitting new residents
Patient care protocol when homes are understaffed
Patient abandonment
“Good faith” care versus “gross negligence” as per new immunity bills
Best practices for health and safety with limited personal protective equipment (PPE)
Best practices for communicating with the families of residents
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This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in hospice care, home health care, acute care, and assisted living healthcare management. She also possesses extensive knowledge of federal and state regulations pertaining to hospice and home health care and has developed and implemented policies pertaining to fall risk prevention. She obtained her BS in nursing from Rutgers University before receiving her MS in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
This expert has over 25 years of experience in healthcare administration with the majority of his experience focused on eldercare and senior living facilities. He has managed facilities ranging from 75 to 269 beds, in settings ranging from critical care to long term care including cardiology, orthopedics, rehabilitation services, dementia care, and assisted living. This expert is a licensed nursing home administrator and a certified residential care facility for the ...
This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in her field. She earned both her BS in healthcare and business administration and her MBA from the University of Houston Clear Lake. She is a certified healthcare financial professional and a licensed nursing facility administrator. She was formerly the program director at Mariner/Living Centers of America, the executive director at Memorial Hermann, and the senior vice president at Methodist Retirement ...
This highly qualified expert has 36 years of experience as a skilled care nursing facility director and attending physician. After earning his BS from Illinois State University and his MD from the University of Illinois, he completed a residency in family medicine at the University of Illinois. He also went on to earn his MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. This expert is board certified in family medicine with a specialization ...
This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in internal medicine and nearly 15 years of experience with nursing home care. She received her BS in biology from Xavier University of New Orleans before earning her MD from the University of Maryland and completing her internal medicine residency at Temple University. This expert is board-certified in internal medicine and certified in medical direction by the American Medical Directors Association. She is ...
This well-qualified expert has been in the field of geriatric medicine for over 25 years. After earning his BA from Pitzer College, he went on to earn an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He earned his MD from The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and went on to complete an Internal Medicine residency at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard Medical School and a postdoctoral ...
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 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 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 extremely qualified expert with licensed nursing home administrator with years of experience in the field. She received both her B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Toledo and completed her post-graduate training in healthcare and business administration at the University of North Carolina, the University of Toledo and Ashland University. She had fellow status at the American College of Healthcare Administrators and a member of several other professional ...
This expert has been an administrator in every kind of long term senior living community, from independent living through nursing homes. He has actively participated in long term care peer organizations and served on numerous boards and committees in the nursing home/assisted living community field. Formerly, this expert was an administrator at Hampton Court Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a 120 bed nursing home and rehabilitation center, and Lake View Care ...
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 ...
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…
In light of today’s litigation world and number of nursing facilities, there’s a rise in the potential increase of legal cases. The federal regulations that govern a skilled nursing facility is set forth by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid.…
Case: Vicky Pruitt v. BROC, LLC, No. 4:14–cv–00006, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia; Oct. 9, 2014 Background: Plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of a patient at Blue Ridge Nursing Center, which is owned by defendant BROC,…
A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a licensed nurse who has experience with the legal system. LNCs can render informed opinions regarding a patient’s injuries and the nursing and healthcare services the patient was provided. Legal teams frequently consult LNCs…
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: 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 elderly female patient living in a nursing home who began experiencing symptoms of a heart attack. Although the facility staff was aware of the patient’s symptoms, they waited nearly an hour to call for emergency transport. Once…
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…
This case involves a 92-year-old female patient with Alzheimer’s who was living in a long-term nursing facility. The patient was considered to be at high risk for aspiration and was always supervised during meals. While the patient was eating lunch, the…
This case involves a wealthy elderly woman with dementia who required a home health aid during the last year of her life. The home health aid that came to take care of her was a 42-year old man. Months after the home…
