Long Term Care Expert Witnesses
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What is a long-term care expert witness?
Long term care expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience as a registered nurse (BSN), nurse practitioner, or certified legal nurse consultant (CLNC), with professional experience at a nursing home, assisted living facilities, or long term care facility. Often, the chosen expert is a member of an industry association such as The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL), or The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL).The expertise of a long term care expert witness will provide credibility to enable the jury to consider the evidence with the weight it deserves.
What types of cases require a long-term care expert witness?
Long-term care refers to patient care that provides assistance with basic daily activities such as dressing, bathing and using the bathroom, and can be offered at the home or in a nursing home, assisted living, long term care facility, or skilled nursing facility. Litigation matters supported by a long term care expert witness typically involve a medical malpractice case, personal injury, long term care insurance, standards of care, or wrongful death.
Long term care expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation has searched for numerous expert witnesses to support long term care matters, including:
- Alzheimer’s residential care in Pennsylvania,
- Ohio elder abuse,
- physical medicine and rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement,
- Illinois nursing home care,
- health insurance coding for outpatient care in Arizona,
- Maryland nursing home administrator duties,
- emergency medicine and acute care,
- geriatric medicine,
- physical therapy and orthopedic care,
- workers’ compensation claims,
- pharmacology,
- Florida group home managed care,
- New York medical staff evaluations,
- internal medicine clinical practice,
- pressure ulcers and wound care, and
- life care planning.
What litigation support work might a long-term care expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support activities by a subject matter expert in health care could include medical records review, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition testimony and courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, an attorney may request a legal nurse consultant or nursing home expert with prior expert testimony experience. Representing the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience turning searches for long term care experts around quickly and providing candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a long-term care expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Long Term Care Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Long Term Care experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Long Term Care landscape.
Expert Witness #244433
This expert has deep experience advocating in Nursing Home Standard of Care matters. This expert is certified as a Legal Nurse Consultant. This expert's clinical positions have included Director of Nursing for a long-term care facility and Supervisor of Clinical Medical Practice at a Home Health Care practice. This expert has detailed understanding of the special needs of eldercare and geriatric patients, and for creation and implementation of treatment care plans. This expert's expert witness practice is truly national and this has testified in Standard of Care matters in multiple US states.
Start Long Term Care Expert SearchExpert Witness #249998
This expert has a career long connection with the State, including holding numerous positions on the State's payroll as a nurse and consultant. This expert is a Legal Nurse consultant and divides consulting time between clinical nursing duties and providing expert witness services in elder care, long term care, assisted living and nursing home facilities. This expert has testimony experience.
Start Long Term Care Expert SearchExpert Witness #257855
This expert is the Principal of legal nurse consultancy providing comprehensive services including assessment, review, research and analysis for medical related cases. This expert serves attorneys and medical clients in the legal process from identification of merit to verdict, whether plaintiff or defense, with services related to Standards of Care, Medical Malpractice/Negligence, Health Care Fraud, Toxic Tort, Personal Injury, Risk Management and Workplace Culture.
As an educator, collaborator and strategist this expert renders informed professional opinions on the outcomes and delivery of health care. This expert has a quarter of a century of nursing and medical experience, which includes, but is not limited to, Medical Surgical, Intensive Care, Obstetrics and Women's Health, Renal Dialysis, Case Management, Education, Long-Term Care, Management and Leadership.
Specializing in Nursing Management and Leadership, this expert obtained an MS in Nursing, and s BS in Nursing, and a Nurse Legal Consultant Certificate. This expert has served in the role of Assistant Professor of Nursing and, among other certifications, holds an Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation, and Pediatric Life Support. Additionally, this expert has maintained Medical Surgical Board Certification.
This expert is a member of American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, Sigma Theta Tau International Chi Omega Chapter, the National League for Nurses, a State Education Association, National Society for Leadership Success, Regional Economic Development Advisory Collaborative, and a Coalition of Nurses Leadership Committee. This expert has served on multiple ethics committees in health care, Presidents Council, Provost Council, and Shared Governance Chair.
This expert has been deposed and testified regarding standards of care and in nursing education regarding civil rights litigation. This expert has excellent communication skills and does not fear a court room setting.
Start Long Term Care Expert SearchExpert Witness #258005
This expert brings to the table many years of nursing experience, including supervisory and managerial roles of RN's/LPN's/CNA's. This included educating staff in patient care and care delivery, critical thinking, emergency responses, equipment, patient's rights, and Nursing Standards of Care. Additionally, this expert participated in recruitment, selection and retention of nursing personnel as well as performance evaluation.
This expert has been an expert for litigation and has provided testimony in over 50 depositions and has participated in approximately 6 trials. This expert has worked for both plaintiff and defense. This expert's cases have included:
- Home Care Issues- Extended Care Facilities- Medical/Surgical- Cardiac Telemetry- ICU- Emergency department- PACU-recovery rooms- Cath lab- Subacute Rehabilitation Facilities- Jail medical careThis expert has given deposition testimony regarding LPN standards of care in a few cases.
Start Long Term Care Expert SearchExpert Witness #249981
This expert maintains a national practice. More than simply a practitioner, this expert is a former Medical Director at numerous Nursing Homes and Convalescent Homes. This expert is currently the Chair of the Professional Practice Committee (standard of care overseer for practicing physicians) at a hospital.
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