Nursing Home Negligence
Craft & Sheppard, PLC | Attorneys at Law
Many families face difficult decisions when those who cared for them need care themselves. The elderly population has specific needs with which few families are equipped to cope. When the time comes where a loved one requires special care that can’t be provided by a single family alone, corporations are quick to offer assistance, but beware. The long-term care companies print slick brochures and promise families to provide necessary and compassionate care elderly persons require, but often don’t provide for those needs. Those needs include basic assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs), turning and repositioning those who can’t, and providing basic nutritional assistance, therapies, and interventions.
Perhaps not so known to the general public is that many nursing homes are operated by large, profitable corporate chains that equate long-term care to selling hamburgers. Often the clean buildings and slick brochures mask serious underlying problems with the homes. Namely, cutting staff is the quickest and easiest way to boost profits, and the companies that pursue those profits will ruthlessly cut staff at the expense of elderly nursing home residents. As a result, many nursing home residents get neglected.
When staff members can’t make their rounds because they don’t have enough help, residents suffer. Residents can suffer pressure ulcers when they don’t get turned in bed, and these sores get infected if there is no help to toilet. Residents can also fall when trying to walk without help. Residents can suffer from dehydration and malnutrition when no one helps them eat and drink. The results can be devastating to those who would otherwise have the opportunity to cherish their final precious years with family and friends.
Most individuals who provide care to nursing home residents are caring people. They care for the elderly and develop close relationships with them. They complain frequently to their corporate employers of the insufficient staffing. Those complaints often fall on deaf ears.
If you suspect a loved one has been victimized by corporate nursing home neglect, the attorneys at Craft & Sheppard will aggressively represent those victims and will provide you a free consultation to review the case.
