According to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the number of American residents living in nursing homes who are subjected to physical restraint has dropped by more than half, from 1999 to 2007. This reportedly came from part of the National Healthcare Quality & Disparities…
In yesterday’s blog, our attorneys discussed the prevalence of pressure sores in nursing homes and assisted living residences, that often result in injury or wrongful death. In a recent wrongful death lawsuit, the family of Frances Graham, a former 81-year old resident of an assisted living home in San Leandro,…
Pressure sores, also known as bedsores or decubitus ulcers, plague nearly one million Americans every year, and are a leading cause of nursing home injury, as our Maryland nursing home injury attorneys reported in a recent blog. Pressure sores develop after an individual rests for too long in one position…
In a recent nursing home injury blog, our Washington D.C.-based attorneys reported on a current case in Northern California, where a nursing home is being accused of recklessly poor resident care and nursing home negligence, leading to the wrongful death of Frances Tanner, a Stockton native. On Wednesday of this…
As Washington D.C. Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorneys, we have been following a recent case of elder abuse, where a Sacramento County Superior Court jury found a nursing home guilty for the 2005 wrongful death of a Northern California resident. Frances Tanner, a former administrative worker who had been…
In a previous blog, our Maryland-based Nursing Home Attorneys discussed a nursing home abuse case involving employees from Madison Manor, one of the Richmond Health and Rehabilitation Complex homes in Kentucky, who pleaded guilty of resident abuse. This week, another lawsuit was brought against one of the Richmond complex homes—Kenwood…
As Washington D.C.-area Nursing Home Injury Attorneys, we have been following a case that has recently gone to trial accusing an Arizona-based nursing home of neglect, failure to prevent pressure sores, and wrongful death. Irma Smith, 98, was a resident of Devon Gables Healthcare Center, and according to the lawsuit,…
In yesterday’s blog post, our lawyers from Lebowitz and Mzhen Personal Injury Lawyers, discussed the resent release of the annual state-by-state check-up of healthcare ratings, in the National Healthcare Quality Report from 2009, which includes Maryland’s ratings on nursing home care, and the use of physical restraint. Nursing home restraint…
In recent news that Maryland Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorneys have been following, Attorney General for the State of New York Andrew Cuomo announced this week that twenty-two health care employees, both former and current, have been arrested after hidden camera footage in two separate nursing homes revealed alleged…
In recent national news that our Maryland-based Nursing Home Attorneys have been following, two nursing homes have settled in a wrongful death lawsuit, after the family of a resident sued the homes for not providing adequate care, and acting with nursing home negligence. In the lawsuit, the family members of…