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Water park dangers

Posted on May 12, 2010
It's that time of year again. Once kids are out of school, every amusement park, pool, beach, and river will be full of families enjoying the summer. It is important that parents know how to keep their kids healthy and happy over the summer. Every year millions of people around the world visit amusement parks and water parks, and many do not know about the hidden dangers and the accidents that can occur...

May 2010 Proclaimed Elder Abuse Prevention Month

Posted on May 10, 2010
Governor Rick Perry has proclaimed May 2010 as Elder Abuse Prevention Month in Texas. In the proclamation he said, 'Elder abuse touches all racial, cultural, religious and socioeconomic groups. At this time, I encourage all Texans to begin at home – ensuring that we are taking the very best care of the seniors in our lives, reaching out to the elderly in communities across Texas and, again, reporting any suspicion of senior abuse to the proper authorities...

About More Than Money

Posted on May 05, 2010
The following stories have been in the local news regarding the tragic loss of a little boy's life after an overdose of morphine from a dental surgery. Parents Sue over Death of their Son Lawsuit Filed in Toddler's Death I represent Monica Meza, the mother of Maddoux Cordova who is after more than money...

Nurse-to-Patient Ratio Laws: Part 1

Posted on April 30, 2010
A study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, recently published it's results on nurse-to-patient ratio safety research. In 1999, California signed a law requiring a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio for specific units in all general acute-care hospitals, with the ratios phased in from 2004 to 2008...

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San Antonio cracking down on Distracted Drivers

Posted on April 29, 2010
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have laws that ban texting for all drivers in all circumstances. The only law that Texas has prohibits teens younger than 17 and school bus drivers with passengers from texting while driving. Hopefully, Texas will outright ban texting while driving in the next Legislative session...

San Antonio Family Starts a Personal Safety Foundation after a Devastating Loss

Posted on April 26, 2010
A San Antonio family has turned their devastating personal loss into a positive action by creating a patient safety foundation to help others from becoming a victim of medical mistakes. Louise Batz, a loving mother and grandmother, was 66 years old when she went to the hospital to have knee replacement surgery...

Lawsuits decrease when Preventable Medical Errors decrease

Posted on April 19, 2010
A new study in HealthDay News shows statistics that support something malpractice lawyers have been saying for years: if preventable injuries in hospitals decrease, malpractice lawsuits will decrease too. The study surveyed California hospitals from 2001 to 2005, and found that there is "a significant association between the annual number of safety lapses that put patients at risk in each county and the number of malpractice claims"...

Kids Treatment with Antidepressants Increasing the Risk for Suicide Continues

Posted on April 15, 2010
A recent study has added to the debate on whether antidepressants increase the risk for suicide in adolescents. A long term study shows that there appears to be no difference among antidepressants in raising a kid's risk of suicidal thoughts. Lead researcher Dr...

Dennis Quaid: ?Frontman? for a Campaign to Improve Patient Care

Posted on April 14, 2010
In November 2007, Dennis Quaid's 10 day old twins were given an adult dose of the blood thinner heparin at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which essentially turned their blood to water causing them to bleed externally and internally. After 41 hours, the twins' blood finally began clotting normally, allowing them to make a full recovery...

Major California Nursing Home Chain Overbilled Medicare $100 Million by ?Upcoding? Patients

Posted on April 03, 2010
North American Health Care (NAHC), a major California Nursing Home chain, allegedly falsified records and overbilled Medicare by $100 million. According to court documents, NAHC employees have been ordered to change patient charts to make patients appear more sick or frail...

Tragic rollover accident on I-35 in San Antonio

Posted on March 29, 2010
Early Sunday morning, a tragic single-vehicle rollover accident on the Northeast side of San Antonio, killed Robert Trevino, 47. Trevino reportedly lost control of a blue Ford Ranger while driving south on Interstate 35 in a construction zone. Police reported that he swerved across three lanes, struck a guard rail and was ejected...

Texas Medical Board: 70 Doctors Receive Disciplinary Action

Posted on March 23, 2010
On February 17, 2010, the Texas Medical Board released the names of 70 licensed physicians that it has taken disciplinary action against since its November 5-6 meeting. 'The actions include one temporary suspension; 21 violations based on quality of care; five actions based on unprofessional conduct; four non-therapeutic prescribing violations; 17 actions based on inadequate medical records violations; one action based on failure to properly supervise or delegate; two actions based on violation of probation or prior order; two revocations and one action for impairment due to alcohol or drugs; one order modifying a prior order; four actions based on actions by another state or entity; seven voluntary surrenders; one action for failure to provide medical records; and three automatic suspension or revocation orders...

I-37 Bus Crash Kills 2, Injures Dozen

Posted on March 17, 2010
Tuesday morning an Americano USA bus bound for the border spun 180 degrees before sliding into a ditch end-first and falling over onto its passenger side in the median of Interstate 37 in Atascosa County, killing two people and injuring dozens of others...

Texas Nurses Back in the News

Posted on March 10, 2010
The two former Winkler County nurses are back in the news after filing a federal lawsuit on the county officials who prosecuted them and the hospital administrator who fired them. Last month Anne Mitchell was prosecuted for filing an anonymous complaint against Dr...

Nursing Homes not required to carry sufficient Insurance

Posted on March 05, 2010
An article in the Clarion Ledger by Sid Salter, from the talk radio show, On Deadline with Sid Salter, discussed the issue of tort reform and the elderly. He mentioned that when his parents were put into nursing homes they were treated with respect and compassion, but he acknowledges that not all nursing homes in Mississippi are that way...

Charges settled in kickback case involving SavaSeniorCare/Mariner and Omnicare, Inc.

Posted on March 04, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice reached a $14 million settlement with the nursing home chains Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC over the alleged kickbacks from Omnicare. The defendants conspired to have Omnicare pay $50 million in exchange for using the supplier for 15 years, and it also involved Omnicare's paying $40 million to buy a Mariner unit...

Watchdog Group Predicts Chilling Effect for Winkler County Nurses Trial

Posted on February 16, 2010
Even though a jury in West Texas acquitted Anne Mitchell, the nurse on trial for reporting a doctor for improper care, Alex Winslow, the executive director of the consumer group Texas Watch, believes that there will be a 'chilling effect' on nurses who want to report wrongdoings by doctors...

Texas Nurse NOT GUILTY!

Posted on February 11, 2010
Yesterday I blogged: Texas Whistleblower Nurse Stands Trial Today, on the fourth day of trial in Andrew, Texas, the jury found veteran nurse Anne Mitchell not guilty of harassment after she wrote a confidential letter to the Texas Medical Board complaining about a doctor's unsafe medical practices...

Texas Whistleblower Nurse Stands Trial

Posted on February 10, 2010
I am outraged that on Monday, trial started for Anne Mitchell, an administrative nurse at the Winkler County Memorial Hospital, who anonymously filed a complaint about a local doctor's practices with the Texas Medical Board. Ms. Mitchell stands trial in Texas state court on 'misuse of official information,' a third-degree felony with a sentence of up to 10 years in prison...

Toyota Plans to Recall Prius

Posted on February 08, 2010
In addition to the 7 million vehicles recalled, reports show that Toyota plans to recall 300,000 Prius Hybrids worldwide over a brake problem. At least 100 drivers of Prius cars in the United States have complained that their anti-lock brakes seemed to fail momentarily while driving on bumpy roads...

Driver Charged with Manslaughter for Runner?s Death Last Year

Posted on February 04, 2010
On Monday a grand jury indicted Philip Smith of New Braunfels on a charge of manslaughter in the death of Michael Sanchez on January 11, 2009. Sanchez, who was hit while running on the shoulder of Bandera Road headed to O.P. Schnabel Park, was an emergency room doctor and marathon runner...

Ground Collapse in NW San Antonio Neighborhood

Posted on January 29, 2010
On Sunday 80 homes in the subdivision of The Hills at Rivermist, a Northwest side neighborhood of San Antonio were evacuated after the ground caved in behind several houses, pushing earth down a 30-foot hill into two retaining walls that cracked, threatening the residence below...

Safe Passing Ordinance: Part 2

Posted on January 26, 2010
On Sunday the front page of the San Antonio Express News had an article 'Safe Passing: Difficult to Enforce, Law May Alter Driver Mind Set.' Last week I blogged (Possible Safe Passing Rule for San Antonio Cyclists) about this potential safe passing ordinance that San Antonio City Council committee voted unanimously to pass...

Possible Safe Passing Rule for San Antonio Cyclists

Posted on January 21, 2010
On Wednesday, the City Council committee in San Antonio voted unanimously to send a 'safe passing' ordinance to the full council for a vote next month. The ordinance reflects the legislation overwhelmingly passed last year by the Texas House and Senate, that requires drivers to change lanes to avoid 'vulnerable road users' when possible, or to give them three feet of clearance when passing...

Part 2: Who?s driving that semi-truck on the Interstate heading towards my family?

Posted on January 18, 2010
On Friday, I covered Part I of Who's driving that semi-truck on the Interstate heading towards my family?, and we learned how drivers of semi-trucks out of Mexico are not regulated like the same drivers in the good old U.S.A. Well today let's talk more about what's wrong with the Mexican semi-truck rules of the road...

Safe Driving Tips During Our Flash Flood Watch

Posted on January 15, 2010
If you are anywhere in the central Texas area, chances are you've been hit by hard rain. San Antonio has been drenched by record rainfall and powerful thunderstorms that has left much of the area under flash flood watches. According to Chris Morris, a National Weather Service forecaster in New Braunfels, rainfall on Thursday totaled 1...

Who?s driving that semi-truck on the Interstate heading towards my family?

Posted on January 15, 2010
I-35 and Cross-border trucking On I-35, there are many 18-wheeler trucks traveling in both directions. In traffic or out of traffic, fast or slow; big rigs can be intimidating, and if an accident does occur, most passenger cars are not equipped to take on one of these rigs...

Potential Elder Abuse Leads to San Antonio?s First Homicide of the Year

Posted on January 13, 2010
San Antonio's first homicide of 2010 involved Ralph Wayne Nunley, who is accused of killing his mother. Floy Nunley was found dead in her bed with wounds to her hands and face. Ralph Wayne Nunley, 57, was also convicted of assaulting his father, Omar Nunley...

One Teen Killed in Fredericksburg Crash

Posted on January 12, 2010
This past week in Fredericksburg, TX, there was a tragic accident that killed one teenager and injured four others. The five teenagers were driving in a Ford F-150 pickup, when they lost control going around a curve and struck a tree. Katie Lynn Stevens, 15 was pronounced dead at the scene about an hour after the crash...

Safe driving in San Antonio?s Artic Blast

Posted on January 06, 2010
Weather forecasters say that the San Antonio area will experience several hard freezes by Thursday, or maybe even as early as Wednesday night. The weather service said that the artic front could send temperatures into the low 20's, and frigid overnight conditions are likely to persist through Sunday...

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