Nursing homes are centers for medical treatments administered in cases of accidents or illnesses. Nursing homes are also centers of medical care and attention administered to people suffering from weakness, trauma or a prolonged illness. These specialist care centers offer healing, rehabilitative and therapeutic practices and care for people suffering from depression, mental disorders, alcoholism, drug abuse and clinical disorders. In short, they are essentially responsible for the wellbeing of your loved ones.
In shocking revelations, the fact has been made, loud and clear that nursing homes in and around Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania, among various other places, breaching the care, support and trust associated with a ‘home’ commit various acts of medical malpractice and negligence.
If you happen to have been the victim of a medical malpractice committed by a doctor or nursing staff during your stay in a nursing home or your loved one has met with a similar fate, there’s respite for you. There are well-trenched laws offering you compensation against such acts of negligence or abuse. All you need to do is visit a reputed medical malpractice attorney in your area, who will fight your case to justice, that is, if you have a strong case in point.
For you to know what makes for a valid case so that you can approach a nursing home negligence attorney, here’s a list of the cases that fall under this purview.
Patients staying in a nursing home are susceptible to verbal abuse by members of the nursing staff, neglect and lack of care from untrained or improperly trained staff or rude administrative personnel. In extreme cases, people lose their loved ones to nursing home apathy demonstrating a case of wrongful death arising out of negligence.
Error in medication at a nursing home is quite common. A doctor might prescribe a wrong drug to be administered to a patient or the nursing staff might administer the wrong one in an act of carelessness. The damage obviously can be dangerous and in the most disheartening cases fatal.
Lack of proper care can also result in broken limbs or bones, bed sores, malnutrition, brain damage, pneumonia, heart failure or other serious illness or injury of your loved one.
Elder abuse is another dark area lurking beneath the sophisticated façades of posh nursing homes. There are cases when due to the lack of an appropriate number of attendants to transfer an elderly resident after she was showered, she met with a fall and broke her upper arm or worse still, hip bone.
The improper monitoring of the breathing tube of a patient resulted in it choking and killing the patient in turn, neglect of a physically challenged patient, wrong placement of a feeding tube or failure to supervise a young resident who wandered out of the nursing home and met with an accident are other cases of nursing home malpractices.
Now that you are aware of the relevant cases, do stand up for justice. Remember nursing homes have no right whatsoever to cause damage to a patient’s life and well being.
