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Recent action by New York State officials concerning a Syracuse nursing home has put a spotlight on the problem of understaffing in nursing homes. A report from the State Department of Health showed years of abuse, neglect and abysmal care at the Van Duyn Center for...
If you have a loved one residing in a nursing home or care facility, you understand that their safety and well-being are your top priorities. Unfortunately, falls and other mobility-related accidents are common in these environments. Older adults are often afflicted by diminished balance, weakened muscles, cognitive impairments or side effects from medications that make them more vulnerable. By understanding…
If your loved one is injured in a fall at a nursing home, call Rich & Rich, P.C. We will pursue justice! Thousands of negligence and malpractice claims are filed each year for resident’s injuries in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The New York Times reports that according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,…
A catastrophic injury is a severe trauma that drastically affects essential body functions, such as mobility, cognitive ability and functionality of nerves and organs. Such injuries result in long-term or permanent pain, disability and diminishment of the victim’s quality of life. They also typically bring enormous expenses upon the victim and their family, such as the costs of medical treatment,…
In the 1990s, a popular advertising campaign aired on televisions throughout the United States. It depicted an elderly woman shouting, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” This campaign was memorable for all the wrong reasons, and worse, the response it received seemed to make light of the very serious issue of elderly falls. It is common for elderly…
Nursing homes have a duty to ensure that elderly residents receive the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being. When nursing homes violate that duty by failing to provide the quality of care that is required, the facility may be held liable for the negligent acts and/or omissions of its personnel…
The elderly often suffer from nursing home abuse because facilities are short-staffed, staff is untrained or owners are excessively profit-driven and cut corners at the expense of their residents. The New York Times ran an article several years ago about the long-term efforts to get effective legislation passed that deals with elder abuse. The article mentioned that the National Center…
In 1986, Congress became concerned about nursing home abuse, and subsequently, upon its request, the Institute of Medicine conducted a study of nursing home conditions that led to the legislature passing the Nursing Home Reform Act (a section of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987). The act created significant reform, including establishing that nursing homes had to be certified…