How are California Nursing Homes Rated? All California nursing homes are evaluated and rated by the federal government through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS has an easy to understand 5-Star rating. A 1-Star rating is “Much Below Average,” a 2-Star rating is “Below Average,” a 3-Star rating is “Average,” a 4-Star...
Choosing the Best Nursing Home: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions Introduction Choosing the best nursing home for a parent is hard. Before driving yourself crazy, you must first accept that no nursing home is perfect! Further, admissions to rehabilitation facilities are oftentimes required by a treating doctor, so you cannot feel guilty for admitting...
More and more information is coming out about elder law issues. Specifically, senior citizens can experience many problems in a nursing home, including falling due to the facility’s negligence. If you or a loved one has experienced this issue, you may want to know the average settlement for a nursing home fall. If you or...
Background Information on Clearwater Center, a Florida Nursing Home Located at 1270 Turner Street in Clearwater, Florida, is a 109-bed nursing home named the Clearwater Center. The legal business name of Clearwater Center is Clearwater Rehabilitation Center, LLC. It is owned by Hearthstone Senior Communities, Inc. At the time of this post, Clearwater Center is...
Background Information on Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care is a 240-bed facility located at 1902 59th St. W in Bradenton, Florida. It can be found next to HCA Florida Blake Hospital. The facility’s legal name is Fi-Casa Mora, LLC. and is owned by Florida Institute for Long Term...
Falls involving nursing home residents can result in catastrophic injuries. Accidents can happen in nursing homes anywhere, but some falls might be the result of nursing home neglect or abuse. Family members must understand what constitutes a fall in a nursing home and watch for potential red flags. Nursing home staff members are required to...
When you place an elderly family member in a nursing home, you expect caregivers to provide them with daily care and attention. Unfortunately, caregivers and facilities may violate this trust and abuse your loved one. Read on to learn more about nursing home abuse and how poor hygiene and nursing home abuse are often connected. ...
Our elderly loved ones deserve the best care possible. When we choose a nursing home to provide that care and they fail to do so, it is devastating for the family members who have to pick up the pieces. When a family loses someone to negligence or abuse at a nursing home, a wrongful death...
When we place our elderly loved ones in nursing homes, we expect them to receive the highest level of care. While it’s unimaginable to most people that someone could abuse the elderly, nursing home abuse is common across the nation. Nursing home sexual abuse may be difficult for many families to even contemplate. Knowing the...
Medication is supposed to help our loved ones heal, not harm them. Unfortunately, in understaffed or poorly managed nursing homes, prescription mistakes are alarmingly common — and often devastating. If your family member was harmed due to a drug overdose, missed dose, or wrong medication, you may be wondering if you can sue the nursing...
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