A man whose mother died after several falls at a nursing home has decided to sue after failing to convince the governor, numerous lawmakers, and state health regulators to resolve his complaints. The 80-year-old woman was first hospitalized after a…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of an 81-year-old female nursing home patient who was allowed by the facility to fall and sustain a hip fracture.  She was also the victim of medication errors while a patient at the…

A recently released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) found that more than one in 10 nursing home residents had a pressure ulcer (pressure sore, bed sore, bedsore, decubitus ulcer) in 2004. The report found that approximately 159,000…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of a 90-year-old female patient who was permitted to fall at a Danville area nursing home.  On February 9, 2007 at approximately 10:30 pm, an aide at the nursing home was changing the patient when she permitted…

Police arrested three employees of a nursing home, including a doctor and former director of nursing. They are accused of forcibly administrating psychotropic drugs to patients to make them easier for staff to control. The former director of nursing allegedly…

Medicare recently launched a new Five-Star Quality Ratings System for all nursing homes in the United States.  The Five-Star Quality Rating System was created to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily and identify areas about which more information might…