Blog: Nursing Home Abuse - Page 29

Part of the role of a personal injury attorney is to assess whether or not a case is present. Our study of law and our experience in the courtroom helps us to decide whether it is possible to win a case. Not every case can be won though. Here is an example of a nursing …

Why do nursing homes commit so much abuse? A lot of it can rest on the shoulders of profit. Medicare treatment provides a large cash cow to nursing homes. Used judiciously, it can help people who couldn’t afford medical care to get it. But some companies send fraudulent bills or perform unnecessary services on patients …

Elder abuse doesn’t have to be physical or emotional to qualify. It can also be financial. A shocking case right in our home town shows just how far a caretaker can go to mess with a patient’s financial life. Luckily, the perpetrator was caught and is now going to federal prison. The nursing home adminstrator, …

The rules that control whether or not a nursing home gets federal funding are contained in the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act. A family tried invoking that act while seeking compensation for a medical malpractice case, but they were denied. The incident was that a resident at a nursing home who was a known elopement …

No nursing home is ever completely perfect, but there is a certain standard of care that must be maintained in order for a facility to receive public funds. Inspectors regularly go to nursing homes to find out if they are meeting the standard of care. If not, they let them know what went wrong, what …

It sounds like a story out of a movie, but it’s happening right now in New York. A real estate developer is accused of mistreating elderly patients in a facility he bought as part of a development project. An attorney who is handling several pending wrongful death lawsuits against the developer wants to stop the …

One major challenge facing nursing homes is the treatment of the mentally ill. Many states have dismantled their mental health facilities. Patients that used to be in those facilities or who later develop untreatable mental health problems are often placed in nursing homes. However, nurses and CNAs aren’t always trained in how to handle mentally …

If the problems at a nursing home get bad enough, the state may investigate it for criminal neglect of the elderly or other criminal charges. The fallout from these investigations can lead to many lawsuits against the nursing home. One nursing home chain in Pennsylvania is in a lot of hot water for just this …

Part of growing elderly is losing the capacity to do things that we used to do, even basic bodily functions like using the restroom on your own. There are various medical devices that assist the elderly in these most basic functions. One of the most common is the catheter, which assists with urination. Catheters can …