What You Need To Know about Pennsylvania’s Immunity Law for Nursing Homes due to COVID-19 Pennsylvania has shifted its approach on how courts hold nursing homes accountable amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As of December 2020, both the House and Senate of Pennsylvania passed House Bill 1737, which stipulates that some entities—such as schools, hospitals, and...
Major Nursing Home Players Identified in 2020 Report In a recent report titled “U.S. Skilled Nursing Facility Market Size, Revenue, Growth, Trend & Forecast Analysis, 2020 – 2027, By Ownership”, Reports Globe did a deep dive into America’s most profitable nursing home corporations. Some of these mega-corporations are expected to grow exponentially over the next...
Black Mold Found at Parkside Assisted Living Facility in Charlotte County, Florida When we put our loved ones in an assisted living facility, making the sure the facility has adequate living conditions should not be on our minds. Unfortunately, some of these facilities are so unclean that they present health hazards to residents. Although their...
Can a State Give a Nursing Home Total Immunity for Negligence during the Coronavirus Pandemic? Many states have implemented varying degrees of liability protection from lawsuits arising out of nursing home injuries. Some states have granted negligence immunity from COVID-19 specific death cases. Some states have extended civil immunity even further to encompass any negligence actions...
New York is a diverse state which offers aggrieved plaintiff’s 62 counties to file their nursing home abuse lawsuit. However, as the recent 2020 US Law map details above, not all of New York’s counties are favorable to Plaintiff’s. In fact, despite being a blue state, most of New York’s 62 counties are more favorable...
Allowing a Loved One to Return to a Nursing Home Following a Fall, Fracture, Bed Sore or Neglect Injury As nursing home abuse lawyers, we get calls every day on potential nursing home injury cases. Oftentimes, the elderly injured victim is still alive. Due to neglect at the nursing home, they suffered a serious injury...
The Fort Lauderdale Retirement Home is shutting its doors for good, with owners relinquishing their Florida assisted living license after a significant bed bug infestation swept through the facility. In the wake of the closure, it does not appear that management is assisting to relocate the ALF’s residents. Our Fort Lauderdale assisted living neglect attorneys...
Why Do the States of Georgia and Tennessee Take So Long to Investigate Reports of Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect? Placing a loved one in a nursing home or long-term care facility is heart-wrenching enough without having to worry about something terrible happening. And if it does, you expect the proper agencies to take immediate...
Should Assisted Living Facilities House Advanced Dementia Patients? Two inescapable facts control this discussion. Americans are living longer, and therefore suffer from unprecedented rates of dementia. Assisted Living Facilities are rapidly expanding their services provided, including developing ‘memory care’ or ‘dementia care’ units. Although these two facts seem complimentary in theory, practically, they are not....
When nursing homes fail to appropriately prepare for Hurricane Dorian, the results are deadly. Failures of nursing homes and assisted living to be prepared for hurricanes and tropical storms cause grave harm to vulnerable residents. A nursing home must have back up generators to preserve power, in order to keep the air conditioning on and...
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