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State and federal agencies are charged with ensuring safety and patient health in the medical industry. The FDA regulates drug prescriptions, state agencies are responsible for licensing doctors and nurses, and public health agencies are responsible for ensuring the safe operation of medical facilities. In what has become a growing epidemic, more and more injuries, accidents, and deaths are being associated with nursing home abuse and neglect. Additional investigations and reports have suggested that the lack of oversight in this industry has failed to keep patients safe.

The assisted living industry exploded decades ago, when families were more mobile, many women joined the workforce, and families turned to professionals to help care for their loved ones. Nursing home facilities also realized that it was a profitable business and throughout the nation, nursing homes became a common solution for families. Unfortunately, it seems that federal and state regulatory agencies have failed to keep up with this trend.

Many state agencies are having an overflow of complaints and are unable to keep up with investigations related to abuse, neglect, accidents, and wrongful death. If you feel that a suspected abuse case went unnoticed or that local authorities failed to take action in your case, we can help. Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home abuse attorneys are experienced with helping victims and their families bring negligent caretakers and their affiliated medical centers to justice.
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As more nursing home abuse and neglect cases are cropping up in Florida and nationwide, regulators are being forced to ask important questions. Why are there more cases of abuse? How should care facilities be screened and investigated in the event of an abuse allegation? Are the sheer numbers of abuse cases on the rise?

As the baby boomer generation enters old age, the number of elderly persons needing care is expected to rise sharply. Not only does this create additional need for oversight, but the sheer volume of patients could make an already strapped system ripe for abuse.

Statewide, legislators, public safety advocates, families and victims of abuse are speaking out against the growing problem of nursing home abuse and neglect. The reality is that nursing home abuse is an epidemic and is on the rise. Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home abuse attorneys understand the grave circumstances faced by Florida’s elderly and their loved ones. Our priority is to expose nursing home abuse and help victims and their families recover compensation for any injury or wrongful death. By taking legal action, we hope to help victims, raise awareness, and stop future abuse.

According to reports, 10,000 baby boomers will retire every day. This means that there is a growing population of elderly who are at risk of financial fraud and abuse, nursing home or care taker abuse and neglect, and serious injuries that could result in death. In the past few years several reports have indicated that the rise in baby boomers needing care, is also going to produce a significant shortage in health care workers and aids.
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When seeking a nursing home or long-term care facility for a loved one, you expect that the operating company or agency properly screens caretakers and other employees. Unfortunately, with more for-profit nursing homes cutting corners and costs, many victims are left in the hands of unscrupulous, even dangerous caretakers. In a case that unfolded this week, a felon was working at a Florida hospital for more than a year before authorities performed a background check and fired him.

Nurses, doctors and other medical professionals must take certain tests. While tests and licenses can indicate that an employee has had proper education and training, they may not tell the whole story. Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home abuse attorneys are dedicated to protecting victims and exposing caretakers and facilities in the event of an injury or death. We understand that while legal action cannot reverse the damage that has been done, it can help bring justice for victims and ensure that future patients do not suffer abuse and neglect.
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Discovering that an elderly loved one was neglected, injured, or even worse, abused by those in charge of their care can be devastating for families. When a family suspects that their elderly parent, aunt or uncle, grandparent or other loved one has been abused, it is common that they go to the authorities. Recent reports indicate that despite many reports of abuse, local and state agencies do not have the capacity to deal with the rising number of allegations involving nursing homes. Knowing that the system has become incapable of managing the number of complaints, many victims’ families have had to pursue other options, including legal recourse.

Nursing home abuse and negligence complaints are on the rise in Florida and nationwide. Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home abuse attorneys are dedicated to providing comprehensive advocacy on behalf of victims and their families. In the event of a nursing home injury or death, there could be another of responsible individuals and entities. Nursing homes may be responsible for not screening employees and individual caretakers could be liable for negligence. We are dedicated to investigating nursing home abuse or injury cases on behalf of our clients and their loved ones.
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We put our elderly loved ones into nursing homes and into long-term care facilities expecting them to be safe and protected throughout their stay. According to US News, a third of the elderly residents in these homes who suffer from a fall hit their heads, leading to the potential for life-threatening medical complications.

Researchers looked into footage of close to 250 falls suffered by nearly 150 seniors in these homes and found that residents hit their head in more than 35 percent of the accidents. They hit their head on the floor more than 60 percent of the time, on the furniture close to 20 percent of the time and on a wall about 15 percent of the time.

Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home abuse attorneys understand that the impact that occurs during these kinds of falls can be devastating. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant problem in older adults. On the other hand, young people hardly ever hit their head when they fall. In persons aged 65 and older, TBI is responsible for more than 80,000 emergency department visits each year; three-quarters of these visits result in hospitalization as a result of the injury, according to the US National Library of Medicine.
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When we send our loved ones to receive care in a nursing home facility, we expect them to be treated with kindness, dignity and respect.

Too often, that doesn’t happen. In fact, a recent national report by USA Today reveals that many patients at nursing home across the country are being robbed of their trust fund accounts, funds that are overseen by nursing home staffers. Our Coconut Creek nursing home abuse lawyers have learned that in some cases, these thefts have exceeded $100,000.

This kind of financial abuse is all the more egregious when you consider that despite the term “trust fund,” these savings were often accumulated by the elderly themselves, through decades of hard work and sacrifice. To be raided without a second thought by those who are supposed to be ensuring quality care is despicable.
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It should come as no surprise that the quality of care that an elderly person can expect to receive is going to depend on the kind of skill, training and oversight that is expected of employees.

But our North Lauderdale elder neglect attorneys know that for the last four decades, home health aides were essentially treated under the law like glorified babysitters.There was no entitlement to federal minimum wages, regardless of how many hours they put in. Also, they were exempted from overtime pay requirements.
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Little less than two months ago, a nursing home fire broke out in a patient’s room at a facility in Greenacres, prompting staffers to rush 50 residents out of the facility as the sprinklers kicked on. Thankfully, there were no injuries, though questions linger about what started the blaze.

Our Greenacres nursing home negligence attorneys know that it could have been far worse.

A recent report by The New York Times revealed that until this past August, federal regulators did not mandate that all nursing homes have automatic sprinkler systems.
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When young people die, there is almost always some type of investigation, some burning drive to find a definitive answer – even when there is nothing sinister about it.

However, our nursing home abuse lawyers in Port St. Lucie know the opposite is true for our elderly. Even in cases where there may be some suspicious circumstances surrounding the person’s passing, there is a general assumption that when an elderly person dies, it was simply his or her time. It’s especially easy to do this when the person suffered from debilitating health issues or conditions that are known to eventually prove fatal.

Unfortunately, these kind of assumptions result in the possibility that cases of serious neglect or abuse may be overlooked. It also allows the possibility that criminal actions may go unpunished – or worse, repeated.
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The hope for each of us is to live a long life and that, in our last years, we will be treated with compassion, dignity and respect.

Sadly, our Royal Palm Beach nursing home abuse lawyers know that is too often not the case. In those instances, it seems clear that someone – or many people, perhaps – should be held accountable.

Recently, a non-profit journalism center’s in-depth investigation into the death of a 95-year-old California woman again illustrates that we can’t always count on state or federal authorities to act when our elderly loved ones have been mistreated.
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