Frances House Case Study

The deposition of Dr. Joe Gonzales occurred on March 16, 2016. Dr. Gonzalez was retained by Plaintiff as an expert in this case and was requested to prepare a life care plan for Plaintiff’s future medical care needs. Dr. Gonzales has served as a life care planner since 1988, when he received is license to practice medicine. He became a certified life care planner in 2006. He is a medical doctor in San Antonio who is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and occupational and environmental medicine. Half of his work consists of treating patients and the other half consists of preparing life care plans related to litigation. When he does life care planning work, 85-90% of that work is on behalf of the plaintiffs in the respective litigation. He sees on average 20-50 patients a week in his medical practice. He has not practiced in a hospital in at least 10 years.

inpatient care in a skilled nursing facility, hospice, and some aspects of home health. Mrs.

There are several pieces of documentation that were used in the case. They include guidelines for continued treatment with the agency, consent forms, comprehensive assessment, and a performance evaluation tool to measure the effectiveness of the interventions. First is the program rules (appendix A). The program rules include proper conduct while at the out-patient facility, and expected adherence to treatment. Examples of proper conduct are no smoking except in designated areas, and having shoes and shirt on while on site. Other examples involve behavior on premises, which include any act of violence or threats of violence to people or property, carrying a weapon of any kind into the site, and any selling or purchase of illegal drug or any

The 2012 Independence at Home Act, written to improve chronic care coordination, continues with similar exclusionary zoning practices that may extend to residential based home care health services. Even with these protective legislative acts, the needs of the community do not always translate into universal support for nursing homes in residential areas.

Assist the patent and family, as appropriate, in coming to a consensus regarding the options that best meet the patient’s goal for care.

. The husband of the plaintiff file a petition to the court that his wife[plaintiff] is mentally ill and needs to have a court order directing the admission of her to the mental health hospital. The petition initiated by plaintiff’s husband is the order of the Wayne County probate court, and it is also appropriately certified by Doctors Wolodzko, who after appearing in her house and introducing himself as a doctor , and have a conversation with her in person that day and another day in telephone, determine that she is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and Smyk. The court gave the order and the Plaintiff was taken by ambulance from her home to a private psychiatric

CCIB received a Corrective Plan of Action (CAP) detailing the visit to the home on 10/18/17 by Service Coordinator, Sally Cano. Ms. Cano arrived at the home, but no one was there. Ms. Cano proceeded to check Delta Home 3 (located next door) and found 2 of Delta Home Care IV residents along with residents from Delta Home Care 3 at the home. As Ms. Cano was leaving, she observed a bus arrive at the Delta Home Care 2. The bus driver reported that there was no staff at the home and that the residents were waiting outside. It was observed the Delta Home Care 2, 3, and IV to be lacking staff. On 10/19/17, RP and Quality Assurance specialist (QAS) Jesus Ozeda went to the facility to observe the staff to resident ratios and to collect the staff schedules

82, NO. 3, SEPTEMBR (2004), the welfare of the child is one that doctors should always taken into to consideration, can the patient create a stable environment, does the patient have the means to take care of the child or children financially? If not should the doctor be able to make all of us responsible for this child? Due to the fact that the mother doesn’t have an income is going to place the needs of all fourteen children plus mom on the taxpayer; making all the death threats and angry comments on her website understandable. We all know that violence is never right; nevertheless the public anger is coming from their concern for these children and for their own pocket.

Kinast gained Christian Berry as a patient in 2007. He later on prescribed Christian with an antidepressant drug called Paxil. This drug is associated to suicidal thoughts and hostile behavior, predominantly in teenagers and young adults. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraged that a warning label be placed on the drug informing users that this drug must be used but paired with the clinical treatment. There should be close observation on patients who take this drug (Botos, 2013). Claims were made that the doctor and the Neurocare Center were negligent “by failing to properly evaluate, diagnose, and treat the patients’ neurological condition. The family also included affidavits from two other medical professionals backing up their claim. Dr. Kinast’s lawyers denied any liability and requested a jury hear the case. The court released an order stating that all required court cost deposits must be paid within five days of the demand. The demand of a jury by one party however does not validate a jury demand unless the costs have been paid, which is required by the order (Botos, 2013). Motions were filed and facts were gathered from both sides, while the $200 jury court costs still went unpaid. After a period of time, Berry’s lawyers asked Judge Forchione to strike the demand because of nonpayment. The next day, the lawyers representing Kinast paid the money to the court, although they were a day too late (Botos, 2013). The judge ruled that the missed the

The purpose of this paper is to identify the type of facility and the resident being served. In addition, this paper will identify the role of the Nurse Practitioner (NP), and the regulatory issues as it supports this role.

Regarding Laura Norberg V. Morris Wynrib, two major points are brought up. Firstly, she was sexually assaulted by her doctor, which falls beneath the tort of battery. Secondly, the notion of ‘’fiduciary obligation’’ is questioned, due to a disagreement of whether or not the relationship between Norberg and Wynrib was considered fiduciary. The court of appeal terminated the case based on the fact that she consented, so the case found it’s way into the Supreme Court. After Norberg was found guilty under the Narcotic Control Act, she actively chose to enter a rehabilitation center, upon being released, she sued the doctor who exploited her vulnerability.

Residential Services provides 24-hour supervision and support to individuals in a variety of home-like settings. Residents receive support for all aspects of daily living, including personal care, transportation, meal preparation, laundry and cleaning, leisure activities, behavior modification, development of relationships, pursuit of personal interests, and

We received the opinions of the plaintiffs’ experts and I have attached them for your review. In a nutshell, the reports state that Frances House and the staff at Ridge Terrace failed to accurately report and/or document Kenneth, Jr.’s behavioral issues and failed to implement behavioral interventions prior to recommending that he be medicated. They also state that Frances House failed to implement a reduction plan for the medications as the regulations require. As a result, the opinions state that his condition has declined and that although he has shown some progress since the plaintiffs took him home, his level of functioning is below where it was when he moved into Ridge Terrace.

Extraordinary treatments can only be determined or administered with Rogers authority, and these include intrusive, limiting or risky treatments. One of these is the administration of antipsychotic medications. The court considers two factors before granting a Rogers guardianship. Not only must the person who needs the medication be determined unable to give informed consent, the court must also consider whether the person would choose the treatment if he or she had the

Jay and his wife have a strong chance of surviving in this industry. They seem to have a strong and lasting relationship with their customers. The competition doesn't seem to be a factor with them. They only obstacle that will cause East Hampshire Homes to falter would be Mr.s Carlos own lack of competence. Refusing to comply with the Federal law can cause the facility money. Mr. Carlos and his wife took all the necessary steps needed before entering this venture. They did the study and since have remained open for fifteen years.