Nursing Home Neglect

Personal Injury Lawsuits

Nursing home neglect is failure to assist in personal hygiene; failure to provide food, clothing, and shelter; failure from health and safety hazards; failure to prevent bedsores, malnutrition, and dehydration; failure to provide clean conditions; and failure to allow access to medical services.

No one wants to put their parents in a nursing home and nobody wants to be there but sometimes a nursing home is the only option.

Sick elderly people lose control of their independence while in a nursing home. They are unaware of their surroundings or even their name. They need help to brush their teeth or eat or worse - get nourishment through a feeding tube.

Nursing homes may strip our fragile loved ones from end of life dignity. Nursing homes which should be the bastion for thoughtful caring frequently are rife with neglect, mental/physical and sexual abuse, lack of qualified staffing, mismanagement, and a litany of other ills directed to the very population it serves.

Corporate nursing homes are among the worst. While corporations get richer, the staff gets smaller and less trained and the patients suffer.

Has your parent or grandparent suffered nursing home neglect or abuse? Has a loved one died from infected bedsores, traumatic brain injury, being denied medication or nutrition? Find out what your legal rights are. Get justice for injustice.

The nursing home industry is heavily regulated yet violations range from minor to serious and fatal. Occasionally, a big news story breaks where nursing home patients were abused or mistreated but what about all the violations that don't make the news?

In order to save money, a nursing home may have access to fewer doctors than the brochure says. A nursing home may have less registered nurses, practical nurses, and orderlies per patient. Nursing homes have a high turnover of bottom-line staff often without proper training or checking for criminal records.

Nursing home patients have a bill of rights but nursing home inspections and violation enforcement are lax.

If you suspect your loved one is being neglected or abused in a nursing home, what can you do?

Contact a leading law firm in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or West Virginia for help.

It costs you nothing but peace of mind. The law firms of Clark, Perdue & List Co, LPA in Ohio and Anapol Schwartz in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia would take your case on a percentage contingency basis which means if you don't win your nursing home abuse lawsuit, the law firm don't get paid. No recovery equals no fees paid.

The likelihood of a successful nursing home abuse lawsuit varies based on the facts of each case. Every person's nursing home experience varies and will affect the outcome of any lawsuit. There are also local issues, involving specific state laws for Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia which may alter the handling of lawsuit.