Nursing Home Falls Expert Witnesses

Princeton, Illinois

Family Medicine, Nursing Homes - Nursing home falls, nursing home death, nursing home abuse, nursing home decubitus ulcers, pneumonia, nursing home fractures, skin ulcers, sepsis, pressure ulcers, aspiration, geriatrics, dehydration, dementia, cellulitis, office practice, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, urinary infection

I am a practicing, board-certified family physician with thirty-nine years of clinical experience caring for patients in offices, hospitals, emergency rooms, and nursing homes. My experience includes serving thirty years as the medical director at three skilled care and one assisted care nursing facility. I have provided direct care to thousands of patients at five skilled care facilities and one assisted care nursing faculty. Additionally, I have had more than 150,000 out-patient and 50,000 inpatient encounters. I can provide expert consultation if your firm needs an experienced family physician to review a case, give a certificate of merit, and testify. In addition, I provide service to plaintiff firms, defense firms, and insurance companies.

Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania

Long Term Care, Nursing Home Administration - Long Term Care, Nursing Home Administrator, Personal Care, Assisted Living, NHA, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect, Regulatory Compliance, Skilled Nursing Facility, Nursing Home Operations, Standard of Care, Wound Care, Restraints, Nursing Home Falls, Adult Day, Physician Orders, Pressure Ulcers, COVID 19, Abuse

As an expert witness and long-term care consultant, I apply my 18 years of experience operating nursing homes. For the last 9 years, I have provided detailed evaluations and expert testimony for legal cases within the long-term care industry. Drawing on extensive operational knowledge, I assist counsel in interpreting clinical records and delivering insights grounded in foundational facts and helping to determine if the standard of care was met. I also apply the federal regulations to determine compliance. I have been retained for 45 cases. 65% defense, 35% plaintiff. Types of cases I have worked on: Falls and fall-related injuries Pressure injuries (pressure ulcers) Elopement and wandering incidents Medication errors and adverse drug events Failure to monitor / failure to supervise Infection control and sepsis-related cases Failure to follow physician orders Care planning deficiencies Staffing and negligence claims Documentation and regulatory compliance issues Areas of Expert...

Heath, Texas

Internal Medicine, Geriatrics - CMS F-tag, Memory care, Elopement / wandering, Frailty / sarcopenia, MDS 3.0, Hospice & palliative care, Failure to thrive, dehydration, Long-term care, Nursing home falls, Malnutrition, Skilled nursing , Pressure injuries, Polypharmacy, Assisted living, Dementia, Standard of care, Geriatric Medicine, wound care, elopement

Steven R. Bray, MD is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with more than 25 years of clinical experience, over 13 of them devoted exclusively to post-acute, long-term care, skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, and hospice medicine. He earned his MD from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a licensed physician in the State of Texas. Dr. Bray is an active clinician, not a retired or office-based expert. He currently provides direct care to more than 300 patients across skilled nursing, memory care, assisted living, and long-term care settings in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, and serves in multiple medical director and chief medical officer roles across skilled nursing facilities and hospice programs. This contemporaneous, front-line experience gives him current, real-world knowledge of the staffing models, regulatory environment, and clinical realit...