In a recent wrongful death and negligence settlement that our Baltimore Nursing Home Attorneys have been following, the family of a nursing home resident was awarded $190,000 in damages, after the resident suffocated in her bed. According to the lawsuit, Lottie D’Aust, a resident of Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical…
In a previous blog, our Maryland-based Nursing Home Attorneys discussed a nursing home abuse case involving employees from Madison Manor, one of the Richmond Health and Rehabilitation Complex homes in Kentucky, who pleaded guilty of resident abuse. This week, another lawsuit was brought against one of the Richmond complex homes—Kenwood…
As Washington D.C.-area Nursing Home Injury Attorneys, we have been following a case that has recently gone to trial accusing an Arizona-based nursing home of neglect, failure to prevent pressure sores, and wrongful death. Irma Smith, 98, was a resident of Devon Gables Healthcare Center, and according to the lawsuit,…
In a recent blog, our Washington D.C.-based Nursing Home Neglect Attorneys discussed the prevalence of violent elder abuse incidents including nursing home falls occurring in seven veterans homes in the state of Texas, as reported by the Dallas Morning News. According to the state’s Department of Aging and Disability Services,…
As Maryland Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys, we have been following a recent story from the Dallas Morning News, covering nursing home abuse incidents and allegations surrounding seven veterans nursing homes in Texas that are state-owned. According to the article, regulators have repeatedly found abuse and neglect problems in the Texas…
In yesterday’s blog post, our lawyers from Lebowitz and Mzhen Personal Injury Lawyers, discussed the resent release of the annual state-by-state check-up of healthcare ratings, in the National Healthcare Quality Report from 2009, which includes Maryland’s ratings on nursing home care, and the use of physical restraint. Nursing home restraint…
In recent Maryland Nursing Home News, the state has received the results of the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report, first ordered by Congress in 2003, to monitor the quality of healthcare, including nursing homes across the country. The report is published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’…
In recent news that Maryland Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorneys have been following, Attorney General for the State of New York Andrew Cuomo announced this week that twenty-two health care employees, both former and current, have been arrested after hidden camera footage in two separate nursing homes revealed alleged…
Our Washington, D.C. Nursing Home Lawyers have been following a recent article from the Washington Post that was published last week, where Karen Feld, the 61-year old Washington D.C. socialite and former gossip columnist, has filed a nursing home negligence and fraud lawsuit against her former home-care giver, for nearly…
In a recent blog, our Maryland Accident Attorneys discussed the topic of whether bed rails in Maryland nursing homes are a potential health hazard, or whether they protect the health and safety of residents. According to the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), nearly 2.5 million nursing home and hospital beds…