Nursing Home Patient Rights: Understanding Your Protections
The Significance of Nursing Home Patient Rights As a nursing home patient, you have the legal right to receive high-quality care and to be treated with dignity and respect. These...
11 Common Warning Signs Of Nursing Home Understaffing
Ensuring nursing homes are adequately staffed is essential for providing quality care to residents, and preventing nursing home neglect. Unfortunately, nursing homes across the country suffer from understaffing and neglect...
What You Need to Know About Nursing Home Ombudsmen
Many people have questions about what a nursing home ombudsman is, what one does, and how they can get ahold of one. Below, we answer those important questions. As you...
Indiana Nurse Arrested on Nursing Home Theft Charges
As reported by Stacy Page Online and the South Bend Tribune, a nurse at an Indiana nursing home was arrested for allegedly stealing from the nursing home’s patients. The...
The One That Got Away – Patients Often Exit Surgery With “Retained Surgical Items”
As patients, we rely on our health care professionals for our safety and well-being, no more so than when we have to undergo a surgical procedure. Yet, according to a...