Personal Injury Lawyer

Traumatic Brain injuries carry significant long-term social and cognitive effects for those afflicted. Often victims’ lives are completely upended to the degree that they can barely recognize themselves. Other times, the brain responds to trauma in spectacular ways, resulting in talents the injured person never before expressed. This is called acquired savant syndrome.

More than two dozen Universal Health Services hospitals throughout the country are under federal criminal or civil investigation for fraud and other abuses, according to UHS Behind Closed Doors , a project of the Service Employees International Union. Universal Health Services, Inc., based in Pennsylvania, is the country’s largest provider of inpatient behavioral health care. Its corporate office is also being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Fraud for allegations of fraudulent billing of Medicare and Medicaid billing.   Failure to have systems in place that protect patients from abuse and harassment are two areas in which UHS has failed, according to the website. It points to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and lists the systemic components that hospitals must have in place to protect patients.  These include providing sufficient staffing, screening employees for records of abuse, providing adequate training, proactively identifying ...