For nursing home patients, proper nutrition is critical to health and well-being. Unfortunately, neglect, failure to monitor patients, and general nutritional deficiencies can lead to serious health consequences and disease. According to a recent report, the elderly, especially those under nursing home care, can benefit from a soft food diet.…
A Florida man’s widow received a $900 million judgment against a nursing home after neglect caused her late husband to suffer painful bed sores and, eventually, a below-the-knee amputation. However, that verdict was reversed by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals, a decision recently upheld by the Florida Supreme Court…
A hepatitis C outbreak at a nursing home last year left 44 residents infected with the potentially fatal illness. Now, a lawsuit has been filed by two of those patients, seeking class action status. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of North DakotaGuttormson v. Manor Care of…
Recently, the U.S. Justice Department announced that one of the largest home health care providers in the country, Amedisys Inc., agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit for $150 million, following allegations that they improperly billed Medicare. According to documents in U.S. ex rel. Brown v. Amedisys, Inc., the first of…
A bill that would make it tougher for victims of nursing home abuse in Florida to obtain justice has been passed by the state senate with a vote of 36-3. SB 670 would make it so that those not directly linked to the operation of a nursing home would be…
In Oklahoma recently, legislators passed a measure that requires nursing home and adult day care staffers with direct patient access to undergo fingerprint-based background checks. Officials say the measure is intended to significantly reduce nursing home abuse and neglect by those with a proven track record for crimes. Pompano Beach…
Dual proposals in the Florida House and Senate would serve to narrow the entities that could be pursued by those filing a Hollywood nursing home negligence lawsuit. The result would be that those who have suffered as a result of substandard care or abuse would have limited options for recovery.…
When dolling out medications to nursing home patients, doctors, nurses and pharmacists must be vigilant in ensuring the medication type, dose and timing is proper. Unfortunately, there are so many different points at which a Fort Pierce nursing home medication error might occur. Perhaps an anti-psychotic drug is unnecessary. Maybe…
For those suffering from dementia, it is common at some point to experience difficulty swallowing. Loved ones and health professionals confer at this point and sometimes conclude that a feeding tube may be the best solution to get nourishment to the patient. However, our Boynton Beach nursing home abuse attorneys…
The nursing home abuse and neglect at a single facility in Minnesota six years ago was one of the worst that state had ever seen. It reportedly involved the physical and sexual assaults of some 15 residents at the facility, ultimately resulting in the criminal conviction of two nursing aides…