Inadequate Employee Screening Puts Nursing Home Patients At Risk
Federal regulations specifically prohibit any form of patient abuse or neglect. Yet tragically, some form of nursing home abuse, including sexual assault, is inflicted upon patients by nursing home employees...
Compiling Convincing Evidence: How You Can Help Your Nursing Home Negligence Attorney Win Your Case
Introduction: When a loved one requires the care of a nursing home or long-term care facility, we trust that they will receive the highest level of attention and support. Unfortunately,...
The Essential Workforce in a Nursing Home: Ensuring Quality Care through Sufficient Staffing
Introduction Nursing homes serve as critical centers for healthcare providers to render necessary care and support to elderly and infirm individuals in need of assistance with daily activities, nursing and...
The Link Between Nursing Home Understaffing and Patient Abuse
Introduction Nursing homes should be safe havens for our elderly loved ones, providing them with the care, compassion, and support they need in their later years. However, patient abuse remains...
Recognizing Physical Signs of Neglect or Abuse in Nursing Homes
Introduction Unfortunately, it is no secret that nursing home abuse and neglect are all too common. There are important warning signs that families should look out for. The occurrence of...
Hidden Dangers of Nursing Home Neglect: Dehydration and Malnutrition
Nursing home neglect and abuse can manifest itself in many obvious ways, including the development of pressure sores, injuries from abusive handling or being allowed to unnecessarily fall, etc. But...
How Common Is Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect?
Introduction All nursing homes that receive Medicare funding (i.e., virtually all of them) explicitly agree and promise to help every resident “attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and...
Why Bother Suing Negligent Nursing Homes?
Attorneys who handle nursing home negligence cases are often asked this question: “Why bother suing nursing homes?” After all, they say, the patients there are already old and sick with...