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Our population is aging. Currently,
more than 1.5 million people live in nursing homes.
While many nursing homes do provide good care, some
others do not, subjecting helpless residents to needless
suffering and even death.
Often times these nursing homes are not
sufficiently staffed and their employees are not
properly trained.
This could lead to neglect of
residents who depend on the home's staff for
the basic essentials of life, like food, water,
medicine, toileting, stimulation, and turning.
When a nursing home fails to provide the proper
treatment, care, goods or services required to preserve
a resident's health, safety, or welfare, and the
resident suffers injury as a result, the facility may be
found negligent.
Signs of Nursing Home Neglect or Abuse:
Examples of nursing home
negligence include:
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Failure to prevent falls.
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Fractures caused by
improper transfer to and from bed, chair, bathroom,
shower or poor supervision.
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Failure to provide
medical care for injuries.
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Failure to assess, x-ray
and properly treat injuries such as fractures.
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Failure to notify
physician and family of substantial change in
residents condition, i.e. injuries
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Failure to prevent
resident from wandering out of the facility.
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Failure to provide food
or water or failure to prevent malnutrition or
dehydration
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Failure to provide
adequate treatment and services for incontinent
residents
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Failure to provide
appropriate supervision and assistive devices to
prevent accidents
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Failure to provide
adequate medical care and acquire and dispense
proper medications. i.e., medication errors or
failure to treat.
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Failure to prevent a
resident from developing pressure sores (bedsores);
or, if a resident already has pressure sores,
failure to provide proper treatment to promote
healing.
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Failure to prevent
dehydration.
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Failure to prevent
malnutrition.
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Failure to protect
resident from violent residents.
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