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Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities
Our team handles complex, high-profile, and often wrongful death claims brought against skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This includes claims involving allegations of improper care, medical care issues and errors, inadequate supervision and staffing, negligence, patient/resident abuse and rights’ violations, falls, bed sores/decubitus ulcers, elopement, and failure to monitor.
The team of attorneys, geriatricians, and nurse consultants understands the special concerns in defending these complex, sensitive, high-value cases and the emotions they invoke. They pride themselves in understanding the delicate, yet complicated relationships that exist between long-term care providers, skilled nursing providers, their residents, and immediate family members and strive to resolve each case in a respectful, professional, and effective manner.
- Abuse and neglect
- COVID-19 response
- Infection control
- Dehydration
- Malnutrition
- Falls
- Wrongful death
- Negligence
- Elopement
- Deterioration or chronic illness
- Medication errors
- Restraints
- Wound care, including decubitus ulcers
- Inadequate supervision and staffing
- Breach of contract
- Reporting requirements
Contact us for more information. We will provide a comprehensive approach to defending these wide range of claims and understand the importance of evaluating the statutory issues unique to these claims along with the medical expertise necessary to evaluate liability, as well as causation and damage issues.
Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities
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