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Two workers at a nursing home in Galax, Virginia, have been dismissed due to allegations of abuse of residents. The workers are being investigated by the police and criminal charges are expected. There are many nursing homes throughout the Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and the overall Tidewater area that provide fine care to their residents. However, over the course of 25 years of practicing medical malpractice law, I have seen many instances of abuse and neglect of nursing home residents. Sometimes, there is simply inadequate staffing to provide the necessary level of care for the nursing home residents. Sometimes, the nursing home employees simply fail to provide appropriate care, thus resulting in injury or death to the resident of the home. At Pierce & Thornton, we have handled nursing home cases involving pressure sores, falls, medication errors, abuse and neglect and many other cases involving injuries to and death of residents at nursing homes.

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I was stopped at a stoplight in Virginia Beach on my way to work this morning when I saw a car rapidly approaching in my rear-view mirror. Anticipating that the car was not going to stop, I pulled my car into the other lane while the approaching car skidded to a stop in what was the spot where I was sitting. I looked over in amazement to see the driver still texting on his cell phone. If I had not been looking in the rear-view mirror, I’d be writing this from a hospital bed.

A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study released recently showed truck drivers are 23 times more likely to be in a crash if they are texting, and several fatal accidents have been blamed on drivers or train operators who were distracted by texting. Many people say that the only thing that would make them stop texting is if they actually had an accident or ran off the road while texting. A far wiser choice would be to pull over if you need to send a text or wait until you reach your destination. Many states, including Virginia, have passed laws making it a traffic offense to text while driving. Effective July 1, 2009, Virginia law prohibits vehicle operation while using any handheld device to read, type or send a text message. While some may view this as an unnecessary intrusion of their individual liberties, lives will be saved due to the passage of this law.

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A Virginia nursing home and rehabilitation center is the focus of an investigation by the Galax County Police Department, according to a local news agency. Two nursing home employees have been dismissed from employment at the nursing home under investigation. Nursing home abuse and neglect was also recently brought to light here in Tidewater when a malpractice case was settled against a nursing home whose employee had repeatedly sexually abused a patient.

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