Entrusting the care of a loved one to a nursing home is a difficult decision for people across Utah. No matter how much diligence you may have applied in selecting a care facility, you ultimately count on individuals' proper training, skills and dedication to provide the best possible care of a vulnerable adult or elder.
At LIN LAW GROUP, we are dedicated to exposing the truth and recovering maximum compensation for victims of nursing home negligence and elder abuse. To explore legal options after a premature death or case of mistreatment, request a free consultation with one of our dedicated lawyers today.
Serious, Decisive Legal Action for Victims and Their Families
While the Adult Protective Services (APS) agency monitors specific guidelines intended to prevent elder abuse, this serious problem is widespread. You may well encounter an overburdened, non-responsive system when you report suspected nursing home negligence, even if you have strong reasons to believe your loved one was a victim of inadequate care or abuse such as:
- Failures to attend and properly supervise a nursing home resident, resulting in a fall or a life-threatening condition such as bedsores or an infection
- Negligence in calling on a physician when a nursing home patient's medical problems emerge or worsen
- Outright physical, sexual or mental abuse — sometimes by nursing home staff who have been inadequately trained or insufficiently background-checked
Nursing home administrators and staff, whether they are staffing assisted living centers, hospice care, or Alzheimer's or dementia centers, have a clear obligation to understand and monitor individual patients' needs. A patient's dire medical prognosis or clearly debilitating condition is no excuse for negligence — and neither are the demands of this undeniably challenging, yet important work.
Turn to a Respected Law Firm That Takes Elder Abuse Seriously when your love one experience any of the following.
When a Bond of Trust is Broken
Nursing home residents require vigilant and dedicated care. When you place your loved one in a nursing home, you have the right to expect that they will be properly and timely attended to when they are having medical problems. You should be able to depend on the right medications being administered in the appropriate amounts. The facility's physicians should take care to timely diagnose and treat their patients' illnesses, and the staff should take all appropriate measures to ensure safe transfers and prevent the development of bedsores and deadly infections.
Dangerous and Deadly Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
One of the most common areas of negligence in nursing home cases involves a facility's failure to properly supervise and attend to the resident during trips to the bathroom and/or cafeteria. Falls, as the result of inadequate supervision and assistance, can have catastrophic and even deadly consequences for nursing home residents. A nursing home's lack of attention or appropriate assistance to a patient while transferring a patient from a chair to a bed or to the bathroom can also cause serious injury and even death.
Bedsores, Infection, Malnutrition and Dehydration May Indicate Serious Neglect
The term bedsores sounds far less serious than the condition itself. Far worse than any ordinary rash or skin condition, bedsores are skin ulcers — sometimes called decubitus or pressure ulcers — that leave a person extremely vulnerable to potentially deadly infection. They occur when an elderly or otherwise bedridden person is not repositioned often enough, and other contributing factors may include dehydration and malnutrition.
Our attorneys make cases of nursing home neglect, abuse and negligence a priority because we recognize the extent of the problem and its tremendous impact on our elders and their families.
To tell us your story and discuss whether action to obtain a measure of justice and financial compensation can succeed under the law, call US anytime. Your consultation will be free, and we pursue all our cases on a "no recovery, no fee" basis.
