Nursing Home Abuse
Oklahoma City Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuits. Our attorneys can help you pursue justice and compensation in your elder abuse claim.
According to a report by CNN “Almost one of every three nursing homes in the United States has been cited for nursing home abuse or violation”. This equates to over 5,000 of the more then 17,000 nursing homes in the United States having been cited for nursing home abuse. The violations that the nursing homes were cited for all had the potential to at least harm the residents and 1,600 of the violations were considered severe enough to cause seriously a serious personal injury or wrongful death.
The abuses that the nursing homes have been cited for range from the obvious physical abuse to the harder to detect: emotional abuse, sexual abuse (such as molestation and rape), and verbal abuse. Furthermore nursing homes have been cited for negligence in not providing adequate protection from violent residents as well as common neglect.
With the life expectancy on the rise and the number of nursing home abuses increasing rapidly (twice as many nursing homes cited in 2000 as in 1996), families need to exercise extra caution about where an elderly member is housed. The resident to staff ratio, staff training, and the nursing home’s history should all be taken in to consideration when choosing a nursing home.
If your family has been victimized by nursing home abuse, contact a personal injury attorney at the Oklahoma City based plaintiff law firm of Atkins & Markoff. Please call us toll free or fill out our contact form.
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Oklahoma
Neglect is a form of nursing home abuse. As it implies, a caregiver neglecting a patient is when a nursing home or assisted living center does not provide the proper level of care to its patient. Neglect can range from not properly monitoring patients throughout the common areas of a nursing home resulting in injury to not properly feeding patients or administering medication at designated times.
If you feel a loved one as been the victim of neglect in an Oklahoma nursing home, contact the personal injury law firm of Atkins & Markoff to discuss your situation. Please contact us by filling out our contact form or calling us toll free to review your nursing home abuse claim today.
Nursing Home Assault and Physical Abuse
Nursing home abuse is a very disturbing form of negligence. It is a difficult decision to admit your family member into an elder care facility, assisted living facility and nursing home in the first place. If you then learn that your family member is being physical abused it can be very disturbing indeed.
Signs of physical nursing home abuse are: bruises, burns (cigarettes, caustics and acids) cuts, open wounds and welts. Actual physical abuse may occur from kicking, punching and the unnecessary strapping down of patients. If the nursing home facility can not give adequate explanation of the origin of these signs of physical nursing home abuse, you need to discuss the legal ramifications with an experienced Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorney.
The Oklahoma personal injury law firm of Atkins & Markoff dedicates their practice to helping the victims of gross negligence. Please contact us today by calling us toll free or filling out our contact form to discuss your physical abuse claim today.
Emotional Abuse – Nursing Home Abuse Oklahoma
Strict standards are set in place in the state of Oklahoma to ensure all patients in nursing homes are treated properly. Unfortunately, these guidelines are not always followed resulting in the injury of loved ones.
Emotional abuse in a nursing home should not be tolerated. Common occurrences of emotional abuse include the chastising of patients and isolation of patients. Indications of emotional nursing home abuse are extremely withdrawn and non-communicative patients, emotional upset and agitated patients and unusual behavior including sucking, biting and rocking.
If you suspect a loved one is the victim of emotional abuse in an Oklahoma nursing home, contact the personal injury lawyers at Atkins & Markoff. We have experience handling nursing home abuse cases. Please contact us by filling out our contact form or call us toll free to discuss you Oklahoma nursing home abuse claim today.