How to Get Better Care and Attention in a Skilled Nursing Facility Choosing a nursing home for yourself or a loved one can be a challenging decision. Further, not all nursing homes are equal (or even close). The quality of nursing home care varies significantly between facilities. If you want to get better care in...
Understaffed Nursing Homes in Florida Did a loved one suffer abuse or neglect because a facility was understaffed below Florida nursing home staffing requirements? Appropriate staffing is necessary for a facility to properly care for its residents. Understaffing can lead to neglect or abuse. If you believe a loved one was injured at an understaffed...
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...
Nursing home neglect and abuse is unacceptable. When a family endures a tragedy inside a healthcare facility, oftentimes, they question why the event occurred. Was it an honest mistake? Is this just a bad facility? Are the nurses and staff ill-intentioned, or just overworked? In this post, our nursing home attorneys address the five main...
Who Really Owns this Nursing Home? And Why Does it Matter? Currently, most privately owned nursing homes employ a complex web of LLC’s to mask the true identity of the facility’s ownership. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that its new attempts to increase transparency in the nursing home arena will now...
Successfully Pleading Understaffing, Corporate Misconduct and Surviving a Motion to Dismiss from the Nursing Home Lawyer A common allegation brought by our nursing home abuse attorneys is corporate malfeasance and understaffing facilities. We find that a common cancerous root of nursing home abuse and neglect is an under-budgeted, under-staffed nursing home. As you can imagine,...
Profits Before People Attitude Kills Nursing Home Residents Over the past 20 years, we have seen a surge of private equity groups purchasing distressed nursing home chains. These PE acquisition teams swarm around larger nursing home corporations, acquire debt which is attributed to the nursing home corporation, then starve the facilities of staff or run...
2020 was a challenging year in a number of ways. Sadly, seniors living in long term care facilities fared poorly due to corporate mismanagement. Multiple studies have emerged indicating that nursing homes continue to struggle to keep residents safe. Due to coronavirus, dozens of investigations into long-term care facilities’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have...
A New Nursing Home Model? Lower Resident Numbers and Better Care Lead to a Better Nursing Home Experience. As the number of older folks reaching retirement age continues to climb, nursing homes across the country are racing to expand, hoping to offer a bed to these aging individuals. What many do not perceive is the...
Placing a loved one in a long-term care facility is a heart-rending decision. And you trust that the staff will do their best to make life comfortable, safe and enjoyable. But shocking new allegations allege that local nursing homes and staffing agencies are violating human rights by using threats to coerce hundreds of Filipino nurses...
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