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Getting Answers Following a Suspicious Death in a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility Questioning whether your loved one’s sudden passing away in a nursing home was a wrongful death? Is a death certificate always accurate on cause of death? Spotting elder abuse or neglect is difficult when you must rely on the facility’s own...

In the last 10 years, there have been a handful of lawsuits against Arden Courts of Sarasota brought in civil court alleging assisted living facility abuse and neglect.  The facility is located on 5509 Swift Road in Sarasota, Florida 34231.  The licensee of the facility, Arden Courts of Sarasota FL, LLC, has been the licensee...

Pinebrook Center Lawsuits About Pinebrook Center Pinebrook Center is a licensed nursing home located at 1240 Pinebrook Road, Venice, FL 34285 in Sarasota County. Our Sarasota nursing home abuse lawyers have experience handling injury and death cases against Pinebrook Center. This nursing home is a for profit facility and has 120 licensed beds. The licensee...

This academic paper on arbitration agreements in nursing home admission contracts was written by Attorney David Brevda of Senior Justice Law Firm in July of 2018. This post was updated April 13, 2021. If you have a legal issue arising out of a nursing home or assisted living facility arbitration agreement, contact our elder abuse...

Arden Courts of Delray Beach has been sued in lawsuits and cited by AHCA health inspectors. Our Delray Beach nursing home negligence lawyers analyze prior facility incidents in order to protect your loved one. If you have questions about filing a lawsuit against Arden Courts, call our elder abuse law firm today for your free...

Consulate Healthcare is a corporation that focuses on senior healthcare services based out of Maitland, Florida.  Consulate is the largest nursing home and assisted living facility provider in the state of Florida and the sixth largest in the country.  In the past, there have been many Consulate lawsuits across the state for wrongful death, bedsores,...

Learn More About the Heartland of North Sarasota Nursing Home and Rehab Heartland of North Sarasota, also known as Heartland Health Care Center – North Sarasota, is located at 3250 12th Street in Sarasota, Florida. The licensee of the facility is Kensington Manor Sarasota FL, LLC, but the company is owned, operated and controlled by...

Nursing Home staffing data is an integral metric used in determining a facility’s quality of care.  Up until recently, the Form 671 was used to compute nursing home staffing data for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).  This computation was a direct influence on how CMS’s Nursing Home Compare site would calculate their Five...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Mission Hills Health Care George Thomason was a resident at Mission Hills Health Care nursing home, located at 4033 6th Ave in San Diego. He was admitted to the 96 bed, for-profit facility after a fall for monitoring his ongoing health conditions. According to Mr. Thomason’s surviving spouse, Carmen Thomason,...

In October of 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new Long Term Care Minimum Data Set (MDS).  MDS 3.0 is the current standardized document that must be completed for residents in long-term care facilities that are certified to participate in Medicare or Medicaid and contains the important RUG score.  The...