Category: News

Tad Thomas, a successful trial lawyer from Kentucky and one of the co-founders of Lawyer Minds, interviewed about his career and what he’s learned as a trial lawyer. Beginning with his decision about choosing this profession, Thomas talked about reading an article about a lawyer named Frank Haddad. Inspired by similarities in upbringing and Haddad’s tenacity when fighting for his clients, Thomas spent some time working for Haddad and the law has been his career ever since.

Robin Armstrong, medical director of The Resort at Texas City nursing home, is conducting a controversial observational study on the elderly patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in his nursing home. He’s administering the drug hydroxychloroquine to residents with the virus even though the drug has not been proven to treat coronavirus.

On Monday, April 13, 17 bodies were found in the insufficiently sized morgue of Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Sussex County, New Jersey. An anonymous tip led police to the nursing home, where they found the troubling amount of bodies crammed into the morgue intended for only four bodies. The anonymous source also said that the bodies were first stored in a shed but were moved to the morgue.

As our local communities and the world continue to react and implement measures to contain the coronavirus referred to as COVID-19, you may find yourself turned away from the nursing home where your loved one resides and unable to visit them. A responsible plan to protect nursing home residents has been mandated by most state governors. Nursing home residents are most vulnerable to the symptoms associated with COVID-19. Therefore, there is solid science and logic to such a quarantine.

If you have a loved one in a nursing home, we recommend the following:

On Friday, March 6, 2020, the first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kentucky was confirmed in Harrison County. The individual, whose name has not been released, was first treated at Harrison Memorial Hospital and then airlifted to a hospital in Lexington. They were a resident in a nursing home. A team of doctors will be sent to Harrison County to figure out how the infected person contracted the virus and who they have been in contact with recently.

In response to this news, Gov. Steve Beshear declared a level 4 State of Emergency for the state of Kentucky on Friday night. Local nursing homes in the area have also stopped allowing their residents to have visitors. This is due to the fact that nursing home residents and other elderly and/or those with compromised immune systems are often the most susceptible of contracting any type of virus. In Washington State earlier this week, COVID-19’s contamination into one nursing home led to multiple deaths.