(914) 220-1086A Kentucky jury has awarded $42.75 million to the family of an elderly man who was allegedly neglected in a Madisonville nursing home. The decedent, Joseph Clint Offutt, 92, was reportedly only a resident at the facility, Harborside of Madisonville, for nine days before he died. Wilkes & McHugh represented the family. The trial lasted […]
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New York Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Report: JAMBDA Study Finds Problems With Nutritional Care At Nursing Homes Go Largely Undetected By Surveyors
A recent study conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) indicates that surveyors routinely failed to detect quality care issues with respect to the assistance provided by nursing home staff members at mealtime. As we have discussed many times on this blog, malnutrition and dehydration are two of the most common […]
89 Year-Old Nursing Home Resident Freezes To Death After Sounding Alarm
A former nursing assistant in an Illinois nursing home recently admitted in court that she failed to properly ascertain the whereabouts of all residents after a door alarm sounded at approximately 2 am in the winter. Instead of conducting a bed check after the alarm sounded, the nursing assistant returned to watching television. She later […]
Sepsis And Its Relationship To Bedsores (Pressure Sores)
Sepsis can be the result of a bedsore (pressure sore, decubitis ulcer) that is allowed to develop and progress. Sepsis occurs when bacteria enters the bloodstream through the broken skin and spreads throughout the body. Not surprisingly, then, nursing home residents with pressure sores are at risk for developing an infection, and ultimately sepsis if […]
Gold Crest Nursing Home In The Bronx Fined For Substandard Care
Gold Crest Care Center in the Bronx, New York was fined $18,712.504 for substandard nursing home care found during an August 28, 2008 inspection. The fine was levied by state inspectors for numerous deficiencies, including an immediate jeopardy finding (the most severe category). A resident suffering from dementia with a history of wandering was allowed […]
Glendale NY Nursing Home Fined For Failing To Toilet Residents
Glendale Home, a County run facility in Scotia, NY, was fined $20,800 for neglecting to toilet residents according to a Long-Term-Care Community Coalition report. When investigators interviewed residents at the facility, they were told horror stories about residents soiling themselves and/or evacuating their bowels/bladder in their beds or on the floor when calls for help […]
Immediate Jeopardy Finding In Bronx Nursing Home
Morris Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a Bronx, New York Nursing Home, failed to keep the facility free from hazards and failed to properly supervise its residents, according to a June 10, 2008 Department of Health survey. The failures were found to place the Bronx nursing home’s residents in immediate jeopardy. Surveyors found that the […]
Bed Sores Prevalent In Orange County New York Nursing Home
The New York State Department of Health found that 24 % of “high risk” residents and 22% of “short stay” residents at Montgomery Nursing Home in Orange County, New York had bed sores (pressure sores, decubiti) for the reporting period of October to December 2008. The national average for “high risk”residents is 12% and the […]
