According to recent news article from The National Law Review, one family has filed a lawsuit in which they claim the nursing home wherein their loved one was living failed to make any attempts to resuscitate her when they found her in a non-responsive condition. The civil complaint alleges the…
Many people come to Florida later in life to retire. However, many of these retirees will eventually need to transition into a nursing home or other 24-hour care center, and we have many of these of these facilities here. The problem is some of the facility owners see things a…
A nursing home operating in the state of Florida owes a duty of care to all residents at the facility. In a typical negligence case, that duty of care is a duty to act as a reasonable and prudent person to prevent foreseeable injury to foreseeable persons and property. However,…
When we send our loved ones to a nursing home facility, we hope they will be safe and well-cared for. In some cases, that unfortunately doesn’t always happen, and patients suffer severe personal injury or even death as a result of nursing home negligence. In some cases, however, we have…
According to a recent article from Modern Healthcare, the U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that nursing home party to a case could enforce its arbitration agreement on two families who had loved ones living in the nursing home facility. This was a 7-1 decision. While there are now nine…
As our population is steadily aging, the quality of long-term nursing home care must be a top priority for the health care industry and our elected leaders. Unfortunately, one area that seems to be lagging – and which will only exacerbate if not addressed – is the shortage of nursing…
Although our population as a whole is growing older, an increasing number of nursing homes are taking on younger patients. This can lead to conflict and potentially danger for those most vulnerable. Recently on NPR Morning Edition, KRCC in Colorado explored this phenomenon, attributing the situation largely to the fact…
Nursing home residents disproportionately suffer from sepsis, a condition that results in multiple organ failure and death. It caused by the body’s overreaction to bacterial infection. Now, a doctor reports he has identified a possible treatment for the deadly condition, which kills 300,000 people in the U.S. annually – a…
A case nursing home elopement ended tragically in Massachusetts recently, when a man who suffered a severe brain injury wandered away from a nursing home one Tuesday night. He was found dead the next day. Local news outlets reported the 54-year-old was last seen at the nursing home around 7…
In an increasing number of places, mandatory nursing home arbitration agreements are being challenged. These agreements are binding contracts, but many people don’t realize that when they sign them as part of the admissions process to a nursing home, they are signing away their right to have any future disputes…