Call Our Lawyers If You Or Your Loved One Experiences Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect In New York
Placing an elderly or ill relative in a nursing home is often the hardest decision to make. It takes tremendous faith to put the care of a loved one into the hands of someone else. It also takes research and financial resources. You want to find a nursing home that is conveniently located, affordable, and feels like the “right fit.”
If all goes well, you find a nursing home that meets your needs and promises to provide compassionate, respectful, and professional care for your loved one. You feel good when you meet some of its trustworthy staff staff-members, including nurses, doctors, and caretakers. When you finally do choose a nursing home for your loved one, it is with the best of intentions. However, many nursing homes in New York and across the country fail to fulfill promises and provide care to the residents in their care. The result? The abuse and neglect of someone you love.
Abuse and neglect in nursing homes are more frequent than you think. They occur in various ways and result from several different factors. Poor supervision, inadequate care, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and negligence cause harm to residents. They can suffer from bedsores, bruises, broken bones, emotional trauma, or fatal injuries.
Employees, administrators, medical personnel, visitors, and even residents can commit nursing home abuse. Surveys indicate that approximately one of every ten nursing home residents suffers some type of abuse. Statistics also suggest that for every report of abuse, there are dozens more that are not reported. Victims do not always report abusive behavior because of fear and incapacity. Nursing home administrators do not report (and sometimes hide) incidents of abuse to government officials and oversight committees because they don’t want to lose licenses or receive citations.
If your loved one has been injured in a nursing home on Long Island because of negligence or abuse, you might be able to hold the nursing home legally responsible.
Our Long Island Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Understand That Laws Require Nursing Homes To Meet Standards Of Care
A nursing home must provide residents with a certain standard of care. Any violation of that standard of care, resulting in injuries, might mean that the nursing home has to pay compensation to the victim and/or the victim’s family. If you have a loved one in a nursing home who you think might be suffering from abuse or neglect, you should contact our Long Island nursing home lawyers right away. At Alonso Krangle, LLP, we can help ensure the safety of your loved one. We have the experience, determination, and tenacity to fight for any compensation the nursing home owes because of negligence.
Federal and state laws exist to provide nursing home residents with rights. The laws also require nursing homes to exercise a reasonable standard of care. The federal Nursing Home Reform Act and the laws in individual states like New York, establish these standards and rights. The level of care to which nursing home employees and administrators must adhere, addresses nursing home residents’ physical, emotional, and social health. Simultaneously, nursing home residents have the right to receive respectful and considerate care and to exercise independent judgment without fear of reprisal or mistreatment.
Sadly, nursing homes in Nassau and Suffolk counties don’t always uphold these standards, and residents suffer the consequences. The nursing home population is already a vulnerable one. A nursing home has the task of making sure our loved one is safe and taking reasonable steps to keep him or her that way. When a nursing home fails to do so, you might have a negligence claim.
When Negligent Supervision And Negligent Hiring Lead To Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect, Let Our Lawyers Help You File Legal Claims
People do make mistakes that can cause injuries. Not all of them are negligent. Negligence occurs when someone fails to act or acts in a way that does not meet the proper standard of care. Unfortunately, many thousands of nursing home residents get injured annually because of negligence in nursing homes. Abuse and neglect in nursing homes also cause fatalities.
Some common acts of negligence that result in nursing home abuse and neglect on Long Island are called negligent supervision and negligent hiring. A nursing home is responsible for the actions of its employees. If an employee is negligent or abusive and causes injuries to a resident, the nursing home might be liable for the employee’s actions.
For example, it’s possible that the nursing home did not perform an adequate background check on a dangerous nurse who harmed a resident. This might be negligent hiring.
It’s also possible that the nursing home did not adequately train someone about the proper way to turn a patient or dispense medication.
Another example might involve a night nurse who was asleep at her desk while a custodian, or even a resident, crept into someone’s room and cause injuries.
Our Lawyers Can Help When Nursing Home Residents Are Victims of Neglect
Neglect in New York nursing homes is rampant. It occurs in a wide variety of ways and can be perpetrated by multiple parties.
Nursing home neglect means that your loved one is not getting his or her necessities and basic elements of care.
Neglect can occur when a nursing home does not provide water, food, clean linens, movement, and attention.
Neglect can be accidental due to understaffing or inadequate resources, but the result is the same: severe harm to nursing home residents.
Neglect often leads to injuries that are physical and emotional. Withholding necessities can cause malnutrition, and dehydration can be fatal for elderly nursing home residents. Neglect can also result in bedsores, depression, fear, anxiety, infection, and even death.
Our Lawyers Can Protect Your Legal Rights When Physical Abuse in Nursing Homes Harms Someone You Love
It is hard to imagine someone trusted with the care of an older, infirmed person, physically abusing him or her.
But it happens. Often. Reports suggest that nearly 25% of nursing home residents are abused at least once during their stay. Nursing home employees perpetuate some of these incidents of abuse. Other incidents of physical abuse in nursing homes are perpetuated by residents against residents.
Physical abuse in New York nursing homes commonly includes one or several of the following actions:
- Slapping
- Pulling hair
- Punching
- Pushing
- Pinching
- Burning
- Force-feeding
- Physical restraint
- Chemical restraint
- Refusing to help move someone who must move
- Withholding food or drink
- Withholding medication
- Raping
- Sexually assaulting, unwanted touching
Criminal and civil laws protect residents of nursing homes from physical abuse. Some cases of abuse in nursing homes may require police involvement and criminal charges. Incidents of physical abuse in Long Island nursing homes can also be the basis of a civil lawsuit. If someone you love is being physically abused in a nursing home in New York, you must protect their legal rights as well as their safety.
Pay Attention To Signs Of Physical Abuse In New York Nursing Homes
Many nursing home residents face a variety of health challenges. Some might have physical ailments, while others might possess a combination of physical and mental disabilities. Memory loss and confusion that often accompany age and illness can make it especially difficult for residents to report nursing home abuse or neglect.
Nursing home residents often rely on the people who are committing the abuse. Finding the courage to complain about the conduct of someone who holds power over you is a challenge all abuse victims face; Am I misremembering? Will the abuser hurt me even more? What if no one believes me?
When you are elderly, frail, and dependent on others, the prospect of reporting abuse can cause anxiety and make even the toughest resident reluctant to do so.
Visitors and family members must be aware of signs that the person they love might be suffering from nursing home physical abuse. What are some things that might be cause for concern?
Ask yourself some questions as you observe the person you are visiting in the nursing home:
- Were those bruises always there, and how did he get them?
- Why is she suddenly afraid to be alone?
- Why does he have scrapes and cuts?
- Why is she so quiet today?
- How come she would not let me hug her?
- Why has she lost so much weight?
- Why has she gained so much weight?
- Why are his sheets dirty?
- Why has she been falling so much recently?
- When did he develop this sudden aversion to socializing?
- Why is she limping?
- Why did they change his medication?
- Why did the nursing home tell me not to come to visit today?
- Why won’t the nurse let me be alone with him?
If you suspect your loved one is experiencing physical abuse in a nursing home, make sure he or she is safe. If you feel comfortable doing so, consider reporting your concerns to the nursing home administration or police, if necessary. Contacting experienced Nassau County and Suffolk County nursing home abuse lawyers is also something you should consider. Our Long Island nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers can help pursue civil damages if your loved one is being abused in a nursing home.
Our Lawyers Help Victims Of Financial Abuse In New York Nursing Homes
As with physical abuse, the fact that many nursing home residents are “compromised,” suggests they are easy targets for financial abuse. Unfortunately, financial abuse occurs in some nursing homes even more frequently than physical abuse. Nursing home residents are often unable to keep track of their finances. It is sometimes one of the reasons they are no longer living independently.
Financial abuse in nursing homes occurs in a variety of ways. It is usually carried out by employees or vendors who have access to residents and their property. Examples of financial abuse of Long Island nursing home residents include:
- Forgery on checks, credit applications, loan applications, car leases
- Stealing valuable property such as jewelry
- Stealing credit cards to use or sell
- Stealing the identity of a resident
- Ruining someone’s credit
- Stealing money from bank accounts
- Committing fraud to convince residents to change a will, give money, or “invest” in something
Like physical abuse, nursing home residents might be reluctant to report concerns about financial abuse. Why? Part of the reason is fear of reprisal for getting someone in trouble- likely someone who is taking care of you. Additionally, it is not hard to convince an elderly person that they are misremembering something, making him or her question the wisdom of making public allegations.
You Should Know the Signs of Nursing Home Financial Abuse
It is often up to visitors and loved ones to look for and recognize signs of financial abuse in nursing homes. To do this well, you should have an idea of what personal belongings your loved has in the nursing home as well as the state of his or her current and ongoing financial obligations.
Indications that someone might be financially abusing your loved one in a New York nursing home can include:
- Receiving frequent credit card offers
- Receiving multiple, new credit cards
- Missing checks from a checkbook
- Missing checkbooks or bank books
- Past-due bills
- Unrecognizable signatures on returned checks or receipts
- Credit card statements with unusual or inappropriate charges
- Credit card statements with charges in foreign countries
- Your loved one seems afraid of someone
- Missing jewelry
- Your loved one can’t explain where his money went
- Finding employees in your loved one’s room when he or she is elsewhere
- Your loved one expresses unusual interest in a particular caregiver’s family or financial problems
Our Lawyers Can Help When Your Loved One Suffers Nursing Home Sexual Abuse
Ageism might make some people assume that senior citizens, especially while living in nursing homes, can’t possibly be victims of sexual abuse. Sadly, this could not be further from the truth. Female residents of nursing homes, especially those who have symptoms of dementia, are at risk of being sexually abused by employees, residents, and visitors.
Conclusive data on elder sexual abuse in New York nursing homes is difficult to find. But, some things appear to be consistent when it comes to some aspects of sexual abuse in nursing homes:
For example,
- The vast majority of victims nursing home sexual abuse are women
- The vast majority of sexual abuse that occurs in nursing homes is committed by the victim’s caregiver
- Hundreds of nursing homes around the country receive citations for mishandling allegations of sexual abuse
Sexual abuse includes rape, unwanted touching and kissing, taking sexual pictures of someone without consent, and more. Regardless of the type, sexual abuse in nursing homes is often unreported by both victims and administrators. As with other types of nursing home abuse, perpetrators are in a position of power over the victims. Caregivers might threaten the victims, withhold food, or worse if they “tell.”
Sadly, administrators often look the other way when residents tell them about sexual abuse. Whether it is because they don’t believe the allegations or don’t care does not matter. What matters is that the nursing home has an obligation to take these things seriously, investigate, and report according to legal regulations. The failure to do so can result in legal liability to the victim of nursing home sexual abuse.
It can be devastating to think that your loved one is the victim of sexual abuse in a nursing home. But it is something that must receive consideration. It might be up to family members to look for signs of possible sexual abuse. For example,
- Sudden withdrawal, depression, or refusal to communicate
- Fear and anxiety in a particular person’s presence
- Refusal to be alone with a specific caregiver
- Genital bleeding, bruising or complaining about genital discomfort
- Bloodstains on linens, towels, underwear or other clothing
- The diagnosis of a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
- Bruises on breasts, inner thighs, or buttocks
- Refusal to shower, bathe, or change clothes in front of you
Please take action if you think someone you love is being sexually abused in a nursing home. Sexual abuse is a crime. The failure of the nursing home to provide protection for you can result in legal liability and compensation for the victim. If you or your loved one suffered sexual abuse or sexual assault in a nursing home, call our experienced New York nursing home abuse attorneys. Let us protect your legal rights and help you seek compensation the laws allow.
When Your Loved One is Emotionally Abused in a Nursing Home, Our Lawyers Can Help
Nursing home residents in New York, including Long Island, have the legal and enforceable right to be treated with dignity and respect. This right includes being free from emotional abuse. Despite being harder to detect, emotional abuse can cause more damage to an elderly nursing home resident than physical abuse. If you suspect that your loved one is suffering from emotional abuse in a nursing home, they might also be suffering from other types of abuse.
Nursing home residents are vulnerable because they are almost entirely dependent on their caregivers. This makes them easy targets for abuse. Emotional abuse in Long Island nursing homes includes some of the following:
- Ignoring
- Isolating
- Humiliating
- Threatening
- Yelling
- Ridiculing
- Insulting
- Blaming
- Manipulating
The injuries caused by emotional abuse can be devastating to a nursing home resident. It can cause someone to become angry, depressed, afraid, and withdrawn. It can result in your loved one no longer participating in social events and daily activities. This emotional trauma can contribute to and even accelerate physical problems.
Signs That Your Loved One Is Suffering From Emotional Abuse In a Nursing Home
If your loved one is experiencing unusual behavior, it may indicate emotional abuse is occurring. It is important that when you pay attention when you visit. Some signs of emotional abuse might include:
- Changes in personality – unusually angry, withdrawn, indifferent, confused, or afraid
- Changes in activities – not participating in social events, remaining isolated
- Changes in habits – sleeping more, eating less
If you think your loved one is being abused, contact our New York nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers today. It can be hard to investigate abuse when the person you love is the victim. At Alonso Krangle, we have the experience and dedication to ensure your loved one is safe and legally protected.
Negligence In Nursing Homes On Long Island Causes Slip And Fall Accidents
The nursing home in which you place your loved one is responsible for his or her safety. Yet reports indicate that in the US, close to two thousand deaths occur annually because of slip and fall accidents in nursing homes.
A significant number of these accidents occur in nursing homes in Nassau and Suffolk County on Long Island.
Thousands of others suffer broken bones, fractures, head injuries, cuts, and bruises from falling in nursing homes.
Nursing home negligence results in many of these slip and fall accidents. Nursing homes must assess each resident’s risk of falling and plan accordingly. Caregivers must ensure the residents who need help, get it. Whether it is escorting residents to the bathroom, dining hall, or social activity, the nursing home staff must provide reasonable care to keep residents safe. Reasonable care might include providing equipment to assist residents, such as canes, walkers, footwear, and wheelchairs.
When nursing home staff neglect their duties or otherwise fail to provide reasonable assistance, the risk of injuries to residents increases. Inadequate assessments, poor supervision of staff and residents, and inadequate training can all result in severe injuries to someone you love.
Many elderly nursing home residents are at risk of slipping and falling, even without nursing home negligence. Multiple slip and fall accidents might indicate that there is abuse or serious neglect occurring. For these reasons, it is important that you contact our New York nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers if your loved one is injured in a nursing home accident on Long Island. At Alonso Krangle, PLLC, our lawyers, who understand nursing home duties and negligence, know how to investigate the circumstances that led to your loved one’s accident. We can protect the legal rights of your family member and ensure that he or she receives the maximum compensation the laws allow.
Nursing Home Negligence Can Lead to Wandering Which is Very Dangerous For Residents
Wandering or elopement of nursing home residents occurs when someone wanders around or off the nursing home premises without proper supervision. Wandering poses a danger to other residents as well as the one doing the wandering. Frail, disabled, disoriented nursing home residents can cause harm to themselves and others.
A wandering nursing home resident can fall and suffer injuries or act violently against another resident. A patient who wanders off the premises of the nursing home can get hit by a car, experience hypothermia, become lost, or die without their medication.
Much of the wandering that occurs in nursing homes result from negligent supervision because of poor training or understaffing. Injuries from wandering are also often the result of a nursing home’s failure to provide required safety features like alarms, locks, and security personnel.
When nursing homes do not adhere to the standard of care required by law, and someone gets injured, the nursing home can be held liable in a court of law. Our lawyers, who handle nursing home wandering cases in New York, can help you and your family collect damages when nursing home negligence causes injuries.
Nursing Home Negligence Can Cause Medication Errors
Medication errors in Long Island nursing homes occur more frequently than you would like to think.
But, with nearly every resident taking multiple medications, it should not be that surprising. There is ample room for errors to occur. Even small medication errors can cause serious harm to a nursing home resident.
There must be evidence of negligence to hold the nursing home liable for injuries caused by medication errors. There must be an act or failure to act in a way that violates the standard of care required by law. For example, if a nursing home fails to train a new staff member on the correct way to read dosage instructions, resulting in a patient overdose, you might have a nursing home negligence case. Another example of nursing home negligence might exist when a staff member falls asleep on the job and does not give a resident a necessary dose of medication, and it results in injuries.
Most nursing homes in Suffolk County and Nassau County have doctors and nurses on staff who can also commit malpractice. Doctors can prescribe the wrong medication, diagnose the wrong illness, and provide the wrong instructions to administer medication. These acts, when negligent, can mean the New York nursing home is liable for malpractice.
Some common medication errors which result from nursing home negligence include:
- Giving too much or too little medication
- Giving the incorrect medication
- Giving the incorrect patient medication
- Improperly administering medication
- Failing to monitor patients side effects of medication
- Skipping doses of medication
- Ignoring medication interaction warnings
- Using medication to sedate or control a nursing home resident
These medication errors can result in a long list of illnesses and injuries to even the strongest nursing home resident. Medication errors can cause internal bleeding, headaches, dehydration, heart failure, stroke, intestinal distress, high blood pressure, and death.
Bedsores Might Mean Your Loved One Is Suffering From Abuse And Neglect In A Long Island, New York Nursing Home
Bedsores or pressure ulcers are painful skin lesions that form when nursing home patients remain in one position for too long. Nursing home residents should never remain in bed or sitting in a chair in the same position for extended periods of time. Bedsores (pressure ulcers) are highly preventable when nursing employees provide reasonable care to residents.
Because of various disabilities, nursing home employees are often responsible for moving residents or helping them move. All nursing homes should have policies and procedures that determine how and when residents are moved. There should be detailed guidelines about moving residents at regular intervals, how they should be repositioned, and cushioned as needed to avoid pressure ulcers and bedsores.
Since bedsores should be avoided if nursing homes are providing reasonable care, their presence is often an indication of neglect. Bedsores usually occur on elbows, hips, buttocks, heels, and backs.
If you see pressure ulcers developing on your loved one who lives in a nursing home in New York, pay close attention to the care they are receiving. Untreated bedsores can lead to painful, unsightly, and permanent injuries. They occur in four stages, from bad to worse. The longer they remain untreated, the worse they become. Ultimately, bedsores can irreparably damage muscle, tissue, and bone.
If you see bedsores on your loved one in a nursing home, he or she may be the victim of neglect in addition to nursing home negligence. Our lawyers can investigate and help determine whether the nursing home is liable for injuring your loved one.
Defective Equipment in Nursing Homes Can Cause Serious Injuries to Residents
Nursing home residents require a lot of equipment to ensure they receive proper care. The equipment must meet reasonable standards of production, installation, and maintenance, and be safe to use. The equipment must also be used according to its instructions. The failure to meet any of these standards can result in serious injuries to New York nursing home residents.
What type of equipment can you find in a nursing home?
- Hospital beds with motors
- Wheelchairs
- Oxygen tanks
- Walkers
- Canes
- Bedrails
- Bathroom safety rails
- Exercise equipment
These are just some of the common “equipment” you will find in a nursing home that is designed to increase residents’ safety. However, with all of this equipment comes ample room for defective equipment to cause a resident to become injured. A resident who uses any of this equipment without proper supervision can get hurt. The nursing home must take reasonable steps to ensure the equipment is properly used and maintained.
Injuries from defective wheelchairs and walkers, for example, can result in slip and fall accidents. Injuries from negligently installed bedrails can cause suffocation.
Defective oxygen tanks can cause death.
When a nursing home violates their duty of care to make sure all equipment works properly and is used with proper supervision, it may be liable for injuries that result. Our New York nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers can help determine if nursing home negligence caused your loved one’s injuries.
Injuries Suffered from Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Our lawyers who handle nursing home abuse, neglect, and negligence cases on Long Island, understand just how much residents can suffer. Even without negligence, the nursing home population is already vulnerable to injuries. Why?
Most people who live in nursing homes do so because they can’t live independently. Age, physical disabilities, and diminished cognitive or memory functions mean they need help.
Nursing homes are supposed to provide the help our loved ones need.
For example, they might help with daily activities such as dressing and bathing. They might make sure medications are taken on time. They might also have to help our loved ones mobilize, exercise, and eat right.
When nursing homes agree to help, they have duties to ensure our loved ones are safe and that they meet their needs. When nursing homes do not live up to the standards of care, or actively engage in abuse of our loved ones, there might be legal liability.
For legal liability to exist, there must also be injuries.
Unfortunately, the injuries that Long Island nursing home residents suffer because of negligence, abuse, and neglect, seem all-encompassing. The list is long and includes some of the following:
- Broken bones
- Fractured bones
- Headaches
- Dehydration
- Malnutrition
- Dizziness
- Humiliation
- Depression
- Exhaustion
- Head injuries
- Bedsores
- Infections
- Cuts
- Bruises
- Anxiety
- Fear
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Muscle atrophy
- Confusion
- Cognitive impairment
- Coma
- Memory impairment
- Sexual assault
- Aggression
- Withdrawal
- Sadness
- Identity theft
- Isolation
- Choking
- Suffocation
- Death
- Stroke
- Heart attack
- Overdose
- Sepsis
How Our New York Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Can Help When Your Loved One Is Injured In A Nursing Home On Long Island
It is important that you get your loved one to safety if you suspect he or she is suffering from abuse in a nursing home. Abuse, neglect, and injuries from acts of negligence can result in permanent physical and emotional harm to your loved one. Sadly, these injuries can be fatal.
Speaking to our lawyers who handle nursing home abuse and neglect cases on Long Island is equally as important. You want to find out the extent of the nursing home’s role in your loved one’s injuries. The best way to do this is to enlist the help of our experienced nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers.
As the population of the US ages, nursing home abuse continues to be a rising concern. Some nursing homes are privately owned and seeking profits. Like all companies, nursing homes are prone to cutting corners to save costs and increase earnings. This might put your loved one at an increased risk of danger.
If your loved one was injured in a nursing home in Nassau or Suffolk County, our attorneys can explain your legal options.
Holding the nursing home legally responsible for harming your loved one can result in an award for compensation.
It can also potentially help keep other nursing home residents safe from future abuse and neglect.
Our Nursing Home Injury Lawyers Can Determine Who is At Fault for Hurting Your Loved One
It is sometimes difficult for family members to get answers from the nursing home. Your loved one may not remember the details of what happened. The nursing home may be claiming that your loved one’s story is untrue. The staff might be reluctant to speak with you for fear of repercussions. The administration might be dodging your phone calls.
Also, nursing homes, employees, doctors, and nurses all have duties of care they are responsible for upholding when interacting with residents. How do you know if any given behavior is negligent? How do you know what specific action or inaction caused an injury? What is the difference between an accident and negligence?
It can be hard to determine if negligence or abuse caused your loved one’s injuries. Because it is difficult, it is important that you consult our lawyers to discuss the specifics of your New York nursing home claim. We know what questions to ask, who to speak with, and the standards of law to apply.
We can find out if the actions of the nursing home were reasonable. If not, you might have a negligence claim against the nursing home. We can investigate your legal claim so you can focus on the safety and well-being of your loved one.
Some Tips For Choosing The Right Nursing Home For Your Loved One
Choosing a nursing home in Long Island is not something to do lightly. It requires research, patience, and resources to finally decide on a facility that is right for your family.
There are countless factors to consider when trying to choose a nursing home that will provide your loved one with the proper standard of care. It can be a long and difficult process, but it is an important one if you want to find a nursing home in New York that will provide compassionate and competent care.
Suggestions For Beginning Your Search For A Nursing Home- The Internet
Where to start? The Internet is probably the best place to begin your search for a nursing home. There are sites with lists and recommendations and even services that can help you with your search. If you know the geographical location you want, you can narrow your search by state or region. You will find lists of “Best Nursing Homes” and other resources in specific areas.
Medicare also has a tool on the Internet called “Nursing Home Compare.” This tool provides useful information about nursing home rankings, violations, and other facts that can help with your search.
As you narrow your search, dig deeper into your results. Look for news stories, reviews, rankings, and reports about each individual nursing home. Look for positive and negative pieces.
Ask For Personal Nursing Home Recommendations
If you have access to personal recommendations, get those too. Consider asking friends, doctors, local community members about specific nursing homes you are interested in. If you can find anyone with personal experience with specific nursing homes, ask for honest feedback about the care they provide.
Some Things to Ask and Observe When Visiting Nursing Homes
Of course, the most important step in finding the right nursing home is visiting. It is important to go more than once and on different days of the week. This can help you get a feel for what occurs at various times. Tour the entire facility-not, just the common areas. Some things to observe-
- How many staff members are around?
- How are they treating the residents?
- Do the residents seem happy?
- Do the residents look clean and cared for? Are they engaged?
Some other things to consider on your visit to a nursing home include-
- Speaking directly to residents and asking questions- think about their answers as well as their demeanor as they respond
- Speaking to the staff and asking questions-think about their answers as well as how they respond to you. Are they easy to talk to? Approachable?
- What is the turnover rate?
- Do the residents receive care from a single worker or multiple employees?
Consider how comfortable you feel in the nursing home during your visits. Can you speak freely? Are people attentive toward you and your family?
Hopefully, you will eventually come across the nursing home on Long Island that meets your criteria and leaves you with a feeling of confidence.
Contact Our New York Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect Lawyer If Your Loved One Gets Injured
When you finally select the right nursing home for yourself or your loved one, it will be with the best of intentions. With any luck, it will be a perfect fit, and you will never need to enlist the help of our nursing home injury lawyers who represent clients in Nassau and Suffolk.
However, if your loved one exhibits signs of abuse or neglect, don’t wait long to call our office. Remember the signs to look for when you visit: bedsores, bruises, changes in behavior, fear, anxiety, fatigue, and more. If your loved one has injuries, the nursing home may be at fault.
At Alonso Krangle, LLP, our lawyers have experience handling Long Island nursing home negligence and abuse cases. We can investigate the circumstances of your loved one’s injuries. We can find out if the nursing home is legally responsible. Our New York nursing home injury lawyers know what questions to ask, who to speak with, and how to pursue damages when it looks like the nursing home could have prevented the injuries.
Don’t let your loved one suffer any longer.
Call our Long Island nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers today at 800-403-6191 for a free evaluation of your New York nursing home injury case.