Nursing Home Litigation
Over a million people in the United States wake up every day in nursing homes. These individuals are helpless, vulnerable and completely dependent upon nursing home staff to meet most or all of their needs. After all, nursing homes are supposed to be in the business of providing skilled nursing care to elderly and disabled residents. Most of us choose to place our loved one in a nursing home because we believe that the nursing home will provide the very best quality of care for that loved one; care that we may be unable to provide at the same level of skill. We trust nursing home staff to attend to the most basic needs of our loved ones – from hygienic care, to feeding/providing them with water, exercise, and necessary medication. In short, we expect that nursing homes will provide a comfortable lifestyle for our loved ones, so that they may live whatever time they have left on this earth with dignity.
Unfortunately, the quality of care in the nursing home industry has increasingly declined over the past decade. A number of studies conducted in recent years by the U.S. General Accounting Office, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services indicate that residents in nursing homes increasingly suffer abuse and neglect at the hands of nursing home corporations. In many cases residents have died or have been severely injured as a result of neglect. Even more alarming is the fact that our loved ones often suffer such neglect as a result of the nursing home industry’s drive to increase profits. Nursing homes often increase their profits by spending less money providing care to its residents. For example, by decreasing the number of nursing staff that work on a particular shift, a nursing home saves money and makes a larger profit. While the nursing home has made a larger profit, residents have been placed at a higher risk for neglect because fewer staff is available to adequately provide for the residents’ needs.
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