Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• One Company's Nursing Home Abuse Record - Is "Blatant" Strong Enough?

  Bob Carroll | June 02, 2006 4:51 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Over at OpEdNews.com there is a lengthy article that details some of the most egregious nursing home misconduct imaginable. The disgusting incidents described are truly shocking. Amazingly, all of the patient abuse and neglect occurred at the facilities of one nursing home company, Beverly Enterprises.Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry Nowhere in...

• Nursing Homes Understaffed - Abuses Continue

  Bob Carroll | April 30, 2006 7:26 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  Understaffing at nursing homes appears to be the underlying reason for continued problems and abuses according to a just-released national report examining nursing home abuse and neglect. The story is from FortWayne.com:Report IDs roots of elderly neglect"The Faces of Neglect: Behind the Closed Doors of Nursing Homes," commissioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform,...

• Florida's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

  Bob Carroll | April 18, 2006 6:18 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Every week I learn of an injury inflicted upon an elderly resident of a nursing home or assisted living facility in the State of Florida. Abuse and negligence often are the cause. When that is the case there is a need for our firm and other personal injury attorneys to step up and provide assistance. The effort frequently involves the filing of a claim for compensation. There are other...

• Nursing Home Denies Resident His Rights Before He Moves In

  Bob Carroll | December 22, 2005 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A Florida nursing home has devised a scheme to deny its residents important rights before they even move into the facility. A Florida Appellate Court found that the nursing home effectively buried an agreement requiring arbitration and limiting liability in a package of documents that the resident's daughter was asked to sign while her father was on route from the hospital to the home. Holding...