Nursing Home Expert Witnesses in Massachusetts

This expert has over 40 years' experience as a registered nurse and administrator in various settings including acute care, home care, and long term care. She is proficient in patient assessment, care planning and collaboration with other healthcare providers. She brings extensive experience in developing, reviewing, and implementing policies and procedures to assure facility compliance with state and federal regulations and standards of care. This expert is currently a self-employed legal nurse and long term care consultant.

This highly experienced actuary specializes in long term care insurance. He began his actuarial career at the Fireman's Fund Life Insurance Company in San Francisco and later transferred to Genworth Financial. For more than a decade, he served as an actuary with LifeCare Assurance Company in Los Angeles, focusing on the long term care field. He now is an actuarial consultant with a specialty in long term care and product pricing.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of physical therapy with a focus on geriatrics. He earned his DPT from SUNY Stony Brook and is currently finishing a PhD in physical therapy from Nova Southeastern University. He is board-certified in geriatrics by the American Board of Physical Therapy and is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapists. He has published numerous articles on limb loss and prosthesis. Formerly he was a sub-acute physical therapist at the rehabilitation center, JDT Villa and currently serves as both an acute rehab physical therapist and an outpatient physical therapist at two highly respected rehabilitation hospitals.

This highly qualified, board certified geriatric medicine expert has extensive experience in his field. After earning his BS in biology from Long Island University, this expert completed his MD at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in Saint Maarten. He then finished his residency in internal medicine and a geriatrics fellowship at New York University. He is a distinguished member of the American College of Physicians as well as the American Geriatrics Society. Currently, this expert is an attending physician at a NY medical center and an assistant professor of internal medicine at a NY university.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry specializing in data science and mathematics with a current focus on long term care insurance. He earned his BS in mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his MS in information science and operations research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Formerly, he has held positions as a corporate telecommunications network designer at Aetna, the assistant director of telecommunications at CIGNA, the co-founder and CEO of Intelligent Network Systems, a consultant for Tucker Network Technologies, and the founder and president of Sage Telecommunications Corporation. He currently serves as the co-founder, operating member, research scientist, and strategist of a research and development company focused on finance, health, and happiness.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in hospice care, home health care, acute care, and assisted living healthcare management. She also possesses extensive knowledge of federal and state regulations pertaining to hospice and home health care and has developed and implemented policies pertaining to fall risk prevention. She obtained her BS in nursing from Rutgers University before receiving her MS in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Today, this expert is certified as a professional in healthcare quality and as a senior advisor and board-certified patient advocate. She is also a licensed registered nurse. She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Aging & Disability Commission and the Society of Certified Senior Advisors. She previously served as the director of the hospice program at Franciscan Hospice & Home Care, Regional Hospice, and Farmington Valley VNA. She also worked as an administrator at Advanced Home Health Care, Inc., as a manager of nursing and hospice services at Farmington Valley VNA Inc., and as the director of operations at Beacon Hospice Incorporated. Most recently, this expert was the performance improver educator at Masonicare Home Health & Hospice Inc., the nursing supervisor of rehabilitation and long-term care at Genesis Health Care Inc., and the director of home care and hospice care nursing at Brightstar Care. She is currently an assistant administrator at a home care agency and a nurse supervisor at a rehabilitation and long-term care facility in Connecticut.

As a Residence Case Manager for a major Cerebral Palsy corporation, this expert supervised staff at two residential locations and managed the cases for up to 12 consumers, preparing all program documentation for consumers based on Residential Habilitation Plans and Office for People With Developmental Disabilities regulations Currently, and since January 2010, this expert is a Director at United Cerebral Palsy, wherein she is the administrator of a 22-bed Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled. She supervises a staff of 75, which includes direct care workers, management, clinical, physicians, and nursing staff. She is responsible for the training of all staff, she develops policies and procedures for all systems, and she is also in charge of all Incident Management.

This board certified expert who is the president of the American Medical Directors Association for his state earned his BA from Boston University. Residency training was completed at the University of Connecticut. He has made over 15 presentations and has over 15 original peer reviewed articles in his over 20 years of clinical practice. The expert frequently lectures on numerous topics in geriatrics such as dementia, medical direction in long term care and hospice, and hospice in long tern care. He is a member of multiple medical associations, some of which he sits on the board. Currently, he is a Professional Director at an independent health program/ network, a Medical Director for an independent rehabilitation center/ nursing home, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at a university affiliated medical center/ program.