Florida Gov. Rick Scott has required state agencies to hammer out ways to achieve significant cost savings over the next year. Being floated around is roughly $430 million to Medicaid rate cuts. A proposal by the Agency for Health Care Administration would place 60 percent of that amount – some…
We recently reported that a lack of nurses has led to increased levels of burnout and more infections throughout nursing homes in Florida. Now, our Sebastian nursing home abuse attorneys understand that doctors, too, are experiencing those same kinds of work-fatigue that can lead to problems for patients – especially…
Nursing home neglect in Fellsmere can take many forms – and it can be equally as fatal as outright abuse. Florida nursing home neglect attorneys know that one of the most dangerous aspects overlooked by staffers at these facilities is food. In some cases, it’s failure to feed the patient…
Martin County nursing home neglect attorneys read with great interest a recently-released report out of California, detailing allegations of widespread neglect and fraud at institutions throughout the state. Given that Florida has the highest rate of senior citizens in the country (17.3 percent), these types of issues are of grave…
Troubling new research indicates a domino-effect of substandard care: That there are fewer nursing teachers, which means there are fewer new graduating nurses, which means the nurses who are employed are quickly burned out which ultimately means more patients are suffering from higher rates of infection and neglect. West Palm…
Nursing home neglect in Davie and everywhere else is often predicated on the fact that few people follow up to see what’s really going on. In fact, countless acts of abuse and neglect have been perpetuated by staff who rightly assumed that those suffering can’t or won’t report what’s going…
One form of Palm Beach Gardens nursing home abuse that can often go unnoticed is that of prescription drug theft from patients. It’s often not recognized as abuse or neglect in the sense we typically think of: bed sores, wandering patients, violence and the like. We know that not only…
The in-depth, enterprise reporting of the Miami Herald staff on the immense problem of nursing home neglect in West Palm Beach and throughout the state has earned the newspaper top honors. Our West Palm Beach nursing home neglect lawyers applaud the newspaper for working to bring to light this widespread…
It’s true that residents in Vero Beach nursing homes may be more susceptible to infections than the general population. Vero Beach abuse lawyers understand that is due in part to the fact that older people in general may be more at risk for infection. However, the fact of the matter…
Our Tamarac nursing home abuse attorneys were appalled to hear of the squalid conditions of a Georgia nursing home: little food, skimpy air conditioning, plastic buckets catching the drips of leaky roofs, trash heaps and flies and rodents running rampant. Sadly, Florida nursing home abuse attorneys know that this is…