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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Andra DeCarlo, RN, Summit Medical Litigation Consulting, Florida Legal Nurse Consultants, LegalNursingConsultant.com, Medical Legal Resources, Nursing Entrepreneurs

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Your Name, Degrees Licenses (Nursing and non-nursing degrees/licenses are fine to list): Andra DeCarlo, RN

Your Business Name (if applicable): Summit Medical Litigation Consulting, Inc.

Please describe in detail your business/services you provide: Andra DeCarlo, owner of Summit Medical Litigation Consulting and her team of nurses provide Legal Nurse Consulting for both defense and plaintiff attorneys looking for a clear explanation of what actually happened with the client. Is there a case? Is there a defense? We specialize in looking outside-the-box to help find the key to the case. Nursing home neglegance, PI, Medical Malpractice and more.

Street Address: 1586 El Tair Trail

City: Clearwater

State/Province, (and country if not USA): FL

Zip Code: 33765

E-mail Address: andradecarlo@tampabay.rr.com

Social Networks: Ecademy.com, Facebook, Gather.com, LinkedIn, Twitter

Homepage Address: http://summitmlc.com or http://www.andradecarlo.info/

Type of business categories would you would like to be listed: Legal Nurse Consulting, Nursing Home Negligence, Medical Malpractice

Keywords, Phrases that describe your business, experience, services: The more you list the better.
Legal Nurse Consulting
Andra DeCarlo
Summit Medical Litigation Consulting
Litigation
Medical Malpractice
Nursing Home Negligence
What really happened to the client?
Is there a case?
Should we settle quickly?
Can we defend the nurse?

Contact person(s): Andra DeCarlo: 727 434-3408, Chris Alexander: 727 434-3409

In what date (month/year) did you start your business? June, 2001

What Attracted You To The Field of Nursing? The idea of helping people on a very personal level was attractive to me. I wanted to be involved with patient care on an intimate level, so as to be most effective helping my patients recover.

What is your experience and background in Nursing? Orthopedics, Neurology, Long term care, Post-partum care, Urology, Urgent Care, Family Practice, Cardiology, OB/GYN, Certified Wound Care and Ostomy Consultant

Would you recommend Nursing as a career? Yes

How did you hear about the Nursefriendly, NursingEntrepreneurs.com?: Google.com

The year were you first licensed as a nurse? 1995

What made you decide to start your own business? Was the in-house consultant at a large law firm in Tampa, and decided to start my own business to help more and more clients.

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How many times have you changed employers in your career? 4

What specific qualities and traits do you feel make nurses especially qualified to operate a business? They can handle a lot of pressure, and they care about people!

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Do you currently practice as a nurse? If yes in what type of setting? Not currently practicing as a nurse, although two of my nurses on staff are practicing as OB/GYN and at a drug rehab facility.

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The Importance of a Well Organized Case by Andra DeCarlo RN:"When reviewing a case, it is important that it is organized well. When your case comes in, it's either a box of random photocopied records from various facilities, or maybe it's similar to a case we at Summit Medical Litigation Consulting recently received, where they were all on a disk, with 3,500 pages of records, including:"
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Guides help recovering patients find long-term care | The Salt Lake Tribune

An uncomfortable truth for anyone facing disability for a year or more: If you go into a nursing home, you might never get out.

Under patchwork Medicare provisions, says Utah Commission on Aging Director Maureen Henry, it is more convenient for hospitals to discharge patients to nursing homes than to figure out how they might live in their homes and communities.

But what looks like the easy solution can be costly. Nursing home bills may drive more people onto Medicaid, which costs taxpayers more, and the move can unnecessarily disrupt the community and impoverish the lives of patients, Henry says.

“You’re shifting residence; you’re shifting family structure out of the community and into the nursing facility,” she says.

Now, with the help of a $700,000 grant from the federal Administration on Aging, the Utah commission is linking hospital discharge staff with “options planners,” who help guide patients and their families through a complicated array of choices for extended care.

The way Medicare and Medicaid law works, people are guaranteed care in nursing homes. But there is no similar guarantee of coverage for care outside an institution, meaning family finances may limit the choices.

“People have the right to decide where and when they receive long-term care,” Henry says. “Our objective is to try to catch people before they are scrambling in a crisis, stop giving people the runaround.”

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Patient rights overlooked in nursing home evictions | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal

An investigation by The Indianapolis Star found numerous examples of what the state's ombudsman for long-term care calls “a major problem”: nursing homes evicting patients without regard for their rights.

In one case, an Auburn facility dumped a resident at an emergency room and refused to take him back, leaving him stranded at the hospital for three weeks until he could find another home. In another case, a Bedford home tried to evict a brain-damaged teenager who had no safe place to go.

The newspaper also found that the state almost never punishes nursing homes, even after it has been made aware that a facility is violating state and federal laws.

“I think if we had a better enforcement system or a more punitive enforcement system, people would quit” wrongly evicting residents, said long-term care ombudsman Arlene Franklin of the state's Family and Social Services Administration. “If there were a harsher penalty for that, they wouldn't do so many inappropriate discharges.”

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