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...
Is Your Nursing Home Taking Necessary Steps To Ensure Patient Safety?
Nursing home care is an essential part of our healthcare system. Families need a safe, comfortable environment for elderly family members who may be unable to live independently or are...
Greed, Understaffing, Lies, and the Nursing Home Industry
Recent news accounts have served as stark reminders for nursing home patients, families of patients, and everyone else that the nursing home industry is corrupted by a culture which brazenly...
Dehydration in Nursing Homes – Important Signs and Symptoms
In our last two articles, we have discussed how dehydration is a silent form of neglect (and sometimes abuse) in nursing homes, and how dehydration is associated with understaffing and...
Dehydration – A Silent Killer In Nursing Homes (part 2)
In our last article, we discussed how nursing homes that allow patients to become significantly dehydrated may be committing a form of silent patient neglect. In this article, we will...
Dehydration – A Silent Killer In Nursing Homes (part 1)
Dehydration is a form of nursing home neglect. Nursing home neglect can manifest itself in many in different ways. Studies have found that 1 out of every 3 nursing home...
Valparaiso Nursing Home Named In Wrongful Death Claim
Wrongful Death Claim filed with Indiana Department of Insurance VALPARAISO, IN– The family of a former patient of Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation has filed a wrongful death claim against the...
What Nursing Home Employees Say About Neglect And Abuse
When we investigate a nursing home neglect claim, we don’t just want to know what happened, we want to know why it happened. Part of what we do is interview...
How Long Do You Have To Sue A Nursing Home?
Ask An Expert: How Long Do I Have To Sue A Nursing Home? A question we are often asked is: “how long do I have to sue a nursing home?” ...