Monthly Archives: February 2023
Top Reasons Nursing Home Residents Are Transferred To Hospitals
It is certainly true that the elderly may require higher levels of care due to frailty and medical conditions that come with age. However, you should be concerned when a loved one at a Florida nursing home requires hospitalization. Statistics indicate that between 1 million and 2.2 million residents are transferred from the assisted… Read More »
How Florida Health Care Providers Treat Bedsores
Bedsores are skin lesions that affect areas of the body that do not get sufficient circulation, and they can develop in as little as 3 hours when a person does not shift position. Also called pressure ulcers or decubitus sores, a bedsore starts off red and painful; it can quickly break open the skin… Read More »
What Florida Medical Specialties Commit The Most Diagnosis Errors?
People trust Florida health care providers to deliver quality patient care, so it is shocking to learn that everyone in the US will experience diagnosis errors at some point during their lifetimes. Along with this disturbing detail, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) also reports that misdiagnosis causes up to 80,000 fatalities… Read More »
Liability For Premature Discharge From The ER
When you have to visit the emergency room for treatment of an urgent medical issue, you certainly want to get the care you need quickly so recovery can begin. Florida hospital emergency departments are busy places, and they can easily become overcrowded to the point where there is pressure to get patients moving along… Read More »
