Even though most nursing homes
provide good care, others subject helpless residents to needless
suffering and sometimes even death. When a nursing home is inadequately
staffed or the employees are poorly trained, they will fail to provide
good treatment and to preserve a resident's health and safety. If
the resident suffers injury, the facility may be negligent. To learn
more about Nursing Home Abuse and Negligence, please contact our
office for information on legal rights, how to choose a nursing
home, injuries that may occur due to neglect, and much more.
THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS
- Bedsores
- Falls and fractures
- Physical or chemical restraints
- Malnutrition or dehydration
- Defective equipment
- Sexual assault
- Improper medication
- Physical abuse or unexplained injury
- Weight gain or loss
- Unexpected or wrongful death
- Unsanitary conditions
- Untrained or insufficient staff
- Over-sedation
- Abandonment
- Lack of supervision allowing residents
to wander away from the facility
FEDERAL FUNDS
Nursing homes that receive federal funds
through Medicare or Medicaid must comply with federal laws that
require the home to provide a high quality of care.
FEDERAL REGULATIONS REQUIRE
- Sufficient staffing of nurses
- Assessment of the patient's functional
capacity less than 14 days after admission and once every 12 months
after
- Development of a care plan within 7 days
of functional capacity assessment.
- Provide assistive devices and adequate
supervision to prevent accidents
- Maintain proper nutrition and hydration
- Ensure that patients are free of significant
medication errors
- Maintaining or enhancing the patient's
quality of life
- Allowing patients to choose activities
consistent with their interests and plan of care
- Provide supervised medical care for each
patient by a physician
- Provide 24-hour physician services in
case of an emergency
- Provide pharmaceutical services
- Maintain proper clinical records on each
patient in accordance with accepted professional standards
- Prevention of the development of pressure
sores and the necessary treatment if pressure sores already exist
- Administer the facility in a way that
attains or maintains the highest practical physical, mental, and
psychosocial well-being of each patient
- A care plan that includes measurable objectives
and timetables to meet the medical, nursing, mental and social
needs.
- Prevention of weakening the patient's
ability to perform basic life functions, such as bathing, dressing,
grooming, eating, and communicating.
- The nursing home must provide the necessary
services to offer good nutrition, grooming, personal and oral
hygiene, if a patient is unable to perform these basic life functions
themselves.
- Treatment for incontinent patients, restoring
as much normal bladder function as possible and preventing bladder
infections
FREE CONSULTATION
If you, or someone you care about, have
been the unfortunate victim of abuse or neglect in a nursing home,
please contact Joe Dughman and Associates for a free consultation
by calling :
615-244-3331
or 1-888-Joe-4-You
NO FEE WITHOUT
RECOVERY
For more
indepth information on this subject please visit our sister site
www.safenursinghomes.com
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