Benes Consulting, LLC - Medical and nursing expert witness

About Benes Consulting, LLC

Benes Consulting, LLC, is led by Debbie Benes. Ms. Benes has 17.5 years of Clinical and Management experience with knowledge of Standards of Care and Regulations in the Long Term Skilled Care Industry. 2 years experience in the Hospice Field. Experience with Legal Nurse Consulting: testifying expert witness, consulting expert, elder/abuse and neglect, and falls/restraint use. Experience with Life Care Planning: Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, and Orthopedic issues.

Services

Benes Consulting, LLC provides the following services:

As a Legal Nurse Consultant, I have the expertise to consult attorneys on medically-litigated cases. This expertise is based on the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Based on this expertise, Benes Consulting provides:

*Review and analyze (summarize, translate and interpret) medical records for deviation from Standards of Care and offer an opinion. *Analyze and interpret hospital policies and procedures, and other essential documents. *Serve as an expert witness and testifying witness to the nursing standard of care. *Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case. *Identify issues of medical record tampering. *Develop written reports for the attorney’s use. *Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony. *Prepare requests for production. *Prepare questions for deposition.

As a Life Care Planner I am able to provide detailed and in-depth reports based on medical and non-medical, psychological, and vocational related needs and services, along with projection costs, for persons who are suffering from a catastrophic injury. Life Care Planners have the expertise to:

*Provide comprehensive home visits to collect subjective and objective data based on the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation. *Uses nursing standards of practice and consults with other members of the healthcare team to determine on-going care based on the person’s medical and non-medical needs. *Prepares a comprehensive care plan for any injury. *Conducts research that supports the life care plan. *IME Attendance- verbal or written reports.

Litigation Support Services

Benes Consulting, LLC provides services as a testifying witness and consulting expert for plaintiff or defense. Support Services include:

-Screen medical records for merit. -Analyze and interpret hospital policies and procedures. -Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case. -Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony. -Prepare requests for production. -Provide comprehensive home visits to collect subjective and objective data based on the nursing process. -IME attendance. -Estimating medical and non-medical needs of person's with a catastrophic injury.

Areas of Expertise

Aging
Alzheimer's Disease
Aphasia
Bedsores
Brain Injury
Cerebral Palsy
Coma
Constipation
Dementia
Diabetes
Dyphagia
Elder
Elder Abuse
Geriatrics
Head Injury

Health Care Plans
Hospice
Hypertension
Independent Medical Exams (IME)
Infectious Diseases
Legal Nurse Consultant
Life Care Planning
Long Term Care
Malnutrition
Managed Care Plans
Medical Malpractice
Medical Records
Medical Review
Medical-Legal Issues
Nurse

Nurse Life Care Planner
Nursing Home
Nursing Standard of Care
Nutrition
Orthopedics
Pain Management
Parkinson's Disease
Patient Rights
Rehabilitation
Respiratory Diseases
Spinal Cord Injury
Standard of Care
Stroke
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)

Additional Expertise:

Liability, Elder Abuse and Neglect, OBRA Regulations, Falls and Restraints.

Profile

Debbie Benes is an RN, licensed in California, with a certification in Legal Nurse Consulting (CLNC) and she has received education as a Nurse Life Care Planner (NLCP). She specializes in having knowledge of Standards of Care and Regulations in the Long Term Skilled Care Industry. She has 14 years of Clinical and Management experience in the Long Term Care Industry along with 2 years experience as a Hospice Case Manager.

Experience with assisting in the coordination of medical care and return to work, involving Worker's Compensation employees who have been injured on the job, by accompanying the injured worker to all initial and follow-up medical examinations through discharge.

Experience is centered on medical record review an analysis, assisting with preparation for annual Department of Health Survey, Developing and Implementing Patient Care Plans, assisting with Patient Care Plan Meetings, Fall Risk and Safety Issues, Restraint Compliance, Pain Assessment and Management, Wound Assessment, Education and Training of Staff.

As a Legal Nurse Consultant, Debbie Benes has experience as a testifying witness and consulting expert. I also have experience with elder abuse and neglect, and with falls and restraint use. As a Life Care Planner, I have experience with determining the medical and non-medical costs for persons with catastrophic Injuries.