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What is the Difference Between a Nursing Home and an Assisted Living Facility?
August 16th, 2024
We often get phone calls from potential clients about poor care in certain facilities. Sometimes the caller thinks the facility is a nursing home when in fact it is an assisted living facilities. Oftentimes the owners of these facilities give their f…
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Father urges bill’s passage after daughter’s throat was slit at disability care facility
June 24th, 2024
fter a woman with developmental disabilities had her throat slit at an Ohio care facility, her father is urging the state legislature to pass a bill he believes would help families keep their loved ones safe. House Bill 465, known as Lauren’s Law,…
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Ohio Gov. DeWine Signs Bill Banning Spousal Rape Into Law
June 3rd, 2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law Friday that bans all forms of spousal rape. Up until now, drugging and sexually assaulting your partner wasn’t a crime as long as they had a ring on their finger. Former Democratic state Rep. Jessica…
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Can Falls Be Prevented in a Nursing Home?
June 3rd, 2024
One of the most common types of cases that we handle here at The Dickson Firm involve a nursing home resident who has fallen. Tragically, when a nursing home resident falls, they can suffer a fracture, they can suffer a head injury, they can suffer a…
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Dayton Family Sues Nursing Home After Loved One Chokes to Death on Video
May 31st, 2024
A Dayton family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sanctuary at Wilmington Place after their father, Ronald Wysong, choked to death on video. The incident occurred on January 16, 2022, when Wysong began choking in front of a nursing aide…
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Celebrating Mother’s Day in the Nursing Home
May 23rd, 2024
Having just celebrated another Mother’s Day, many of us may have traveled long distances to visit with our mothers and our grandmothers. Many of us may not live close to our mothers and grandmothers and, as a result, we may not be able to see them…
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Nursing Homes Wield Pandemic Immunity Laws to Duck Wrongful Death Suits
May 13th, 2024
This is a KFF Health News story. In early 2020, with reports of COVID-19 outbreaks making dire headlines, Trever Schapers worried about her father’s safety in a nursing home in Queens. She had delighted in watching her dad, John Schapers, blow…
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The Laurels of Chagrin Falls
April 22nd, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Ohio Department of Health, inspect all the nursing homes in Ohio on a regular basis to determine if they are providing the quality of care that Medicare and Medicaid require in order to p…
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Willow Park Convalescent Home
April 8th, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Ohio Department of Health, inspect all the nursing homes in Ohio on a regular basis to determine if they are providing the quality of care that Medicare and Medicaid require in order to p…
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Point Place Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
March 25th, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Ohio Department of Health, inspect all the nursing homes in Ohio on a regular basis to determine if they are providing the quality of care that Medicare and Medicaid require in order to p…
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