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Nursing Home Abuse
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.
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Nursing Home Negligence
Topics
Physical
Abuse
Signs of physical nursing home abuse are: bruises, burns,
cuts, open wounds and welts. Actual physical abuse may occur
from kicking, punching and the unnecessary strapping down
of patients.
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Neglect
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.
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Emotional
Abuse
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.
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