Nursing home neglect lawyers near me are monitoring the alarming rate of elder abuse in Pennsylvania. According to the Older Adult Protective Services Annual report from 2020-2021, caretaker neglect ranked as the second highest category for both alleged and sustained abuse incidents. The same report identified that caretakers accounted for 35% of perpetrators of elder […]
Category: Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Nurse Amputated Foot Without Consent, Outside of Scope of Practice
A Wisconsin nurse has been charged with felony elder abuse after allegedly amputating a nursing home resident’s foot, according to Philadelphia nursing home abuse lawyers. Mary K. Brown, age 38, was a nurse at the Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center when she performed an amputation at bedside of the 62-year old hospice patient. The […]
Do Nursing Homes Understaff to Increase Profits?
According to PA nursing home lawyers, Pennsylvania’s long history of substandard nursing home care has often been blamed on for-profit facilities that consistently place profits ahead of resident care and safety. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to delve into nursing home ownership models, specifically scrutinizing understaffing at for-profit nursing homes. This […]
CMS Cracks Down on Negligent Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last Friday that it’s bolstering scrutiny for chronically under-performing nursing homes through revisions of its Special Focus Facility Program. Nursing home negligence attorneys share that the Special Focus Facility Program is designed to stimulate improvements in nursing homes identified as having a history of serious quality […]
New Nursing Home Arbitration Rules to Start This Fall
Nursing home neglect lawyers Philadelphia trusts are encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision this week to refuse to hear arguments in a case that sought to allow nursing homes to require pre-dispute arbitration agreements. This decision clears a path for enforcement of tough new arbitration regulations aimed at protecting the rights of nursing home residents. […]
Class Action Filed Against Nursing Home Chain for Understaffing, Neglect
According to Philadelphia nursing home understaffing lawyers, residents of six Chicago nursing homes filed a class action lawsuit alleging damages from intentional understaffing. The complaint claims that Alden Group, a multi-site provider of health care and senior living services throughout Illinois, markets its services to attract residents to its facilities, but then intentionally understaffs those […]
Congressional Subcommittee Singles Out Genesis HealthCare & Other For-Profit Nursing Homes for COVID Criticisms
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released insight on the grim conditions within for-profit nursing home chains during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Philadelphia nursing home neglect lawyers have reviewed the documents shared by the Subcommittee as part of the hearing “Examining Long-Term Care in America: The Impact of the Coronavirus in […]
Regulators Warn Nursing Homes to Stop Financial Exploitation
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (SFPB) spoke out last week in a field hearing to warning nursing homes to cease financial exploitation during the admissions process. A Philadelphia nursing home abuse lawyer shares that recent media attention has showcased situations in which relatives and friends of residents have been hounded over bad debt, despite federal […]
Nursing Home Operator Requests SCOTUS to Hear COVID-Related Case
Glenhaven Healthcare, a nursing home operator based in California, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether a COVID-19 liability case covered under the PREP Act should be decided in state or federal court. According to a Philadelphia nursing home abuse lawyer, this case revolves around a COVID-19 wrongful death claim. Glenhaven contends that […]
Assisted Living Residents Poisoned from Dishwashing Liquid
A Philadelphia assisted living neglect lawyer details how neglect at a California assisted living facility has left one resident dead and two residents hospitalized after ingesting toxic dishwashing liquid at Atria Park of San Mateo. The residents were all served the dishwashing liquid instead of juice. A 93-year old resident with dementia has now died […]
