Elder Law Blog

Three days after Christmas in 2017, Vance Perry was admitted to the V.A. Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Perry suffered from mental health issues which caused confusion, disorientation, severe memory problems and other cognitive difficulties. The VA, like private nursing homes, should have done a...

Beginning in September 2019, we sounded the alarm over a deadly outbreak of a new virus named Candida Auris. It is a fungal infection that is one of the most virulent and deadly in the world. The first U.S. case was in 2015. Since then there have been several deadly outbreaks in New Jersey, New...

Twice in 2019 the United States faced deadly outbreaks of Candida Auris, one in New York and one in Southern California. With small clusters in other states, New Jersey largely dodged a bullet last year. This year, it appears there is at least one case of this deadly fungus in New Jersey,...

Twice in 2019 the United States faced deadly outbreaks of Candida Auris, one in New York and one in Southern California. Candida Auris is a difficult to treat fungus that kills as many as 50% of the people it infects. Like coronavirus, it is particularly deadly when the outbreak occurs in a nursing...

The elder law attorneys at Mahany Law are investigating a claim that a patient developed a Stage 3 bedsore while a patient at Flushing Hospital. With today’s advances in medicine, there is absolutely no reason for a patient to develop of a bedsore while hospitalized. This is especially true...