Long Term Care Expert Witnesses in Utah

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...

Physician Assistant, Long Term Care - Nursing Home Neglect, neglect, pressure ulcers, fall with injury, standard of care, skilled nursing facility, capacity disputes, medication errors, polypharmacy, sepsis recognition, failure to monitor, failure to escalate care, unsafe discharge, discharge plainning, failure to diagnose, long term care

I am a board-certified Physician Assistant with over 25 years of clinical experience specializing in geriatrics, home care, skilled nursing, and post-acute rehabilitation. I actively practice in multiple skilled nursing facilities, where I manage medically complex, high-risk patients and work directly with interdisciplinary teams responsible for day-to-day patient care. My expertise centers on evaluating standard of care in cases involving non medical and skilled home health, nursing homes, pressure injuries, falls with injury, failure to monitor or escalate care, medication mismanagement, sepsis, and unsafe discharge practices. I have particular insight into how breakdowns in communication, staffing, and clinical decision-making contribute to adverse outcomes in the long-term care setting. Unlike many physician experts who are removed from the daily operations of skilled nursing facilities, I provide real-time, practical insight into how care is actually delivered at the bedside....

Delta, Utah

Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Rural Family Medicine, Obstetrics w/ C-Section, Long Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Hospice Care, Outpatient Fam Medicine Care, Hospitalist-Family Mediciune, Inpatient Fam Medicine Care, Screening Colonoscopy, Medical Director Nursing Home, Pediatrics, Medical Licensing Board

I am a Board-Certified Family Physician with extensive medical legal experience. I have served as a Family Medicine expert for over 20 years. I have reviewed hundreds of cases during that time, provided over 25 deposition testimonies and testified in over 10 jury trials in medical liability cases. The majority (75%) of my work has been as a defense expert, but in the last 5 years I have been involved with more plaintiff expert work (25%). I have practiced full-time, comprehensive Family Medicine in rural Utah for over 30 years. As a rural physician I care for patients from birth through death, pediatric, adolescent, and adult care. I am primarily office based, but provide obstetric care, including cesarean deliveries, hospital medicine in our 20-bed Critical Access Hospital for lower acuity acute admissions, endoscopic procedures including screening and diagnostic colonoscopy and EGD, and surgical procedures including hernia repair, breast biopsy, tonsillectomy, myringotomy with tu...