Nursing Home Neglect
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect is a tragic but all too familiar occurrence. Elderly or infirm patients are neglected leading to severe injuries and curtailing the golden years of the their lives. Dont allow your loved ones o suffer because a nursing home has made a business decision to spend less money than necessary to provide good care to its residents.
Common nursing home injuries.
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Bed Sores or Decubitis Ulcers - occur from a lack of movement; failure to have a proper mattress; failure to turn or properly position a patient.
- Fractures / Falls - occur from failure to supervise the patient, leave the patient unattended, abandon the patient
- Dehydration/ Malnutrition
- Sepsis - infection of the blood
- Physical Abuse, Assault
- Sexual Abuse
- Death
New York Public Health Law 2801(d) allows for a statutory private right of action against a residential health care facility that has deprived a patient of the rights and or benefit established for that patient's well being. These include the right to appropriate medical and nursing care, including the failure to provide sufficiently- and properly-trained personnel to assist a patient in ambulating, and the failure to provide sufficient and adequate personnel to attend to a patient's needs while a resident of a nursing home.
If you have been injured due to the negligence of others, contact a New York Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers at Frekhtman and Associates for a free New York personal injury attorney consultation.
