NY Nursing Home Injury Center

How Much Money Is a Nursing Home Case Worth?

When a family brings a loved one to a nursing home, they are placing an immense amount of trust in the long-term care facility and its staff to provide exceptional care and attention, as well as dignity and respect.  When this trust is broken, and an elderly individual suffers a significant injury, psychological abuse, or read more...

What Constitutes Nursing Home Neglect?

Nursing homes that accept funding from Medicaid or Medicare must comply with rigid regulations and requirements.  Under federal law, nursing home and long-term care residents have the right to be free from sexual, verbal, physical, and mental abuse, as well as corporal punishment, neglect, and involuntary seclusion.[1]  They also have the right to a safe read more...

Can I Sue a Nursing Home for Bedsores?

Yes. Except with respect to certain very limited conditions, nursing homes are almost always liable for bedsores (also called pressure sores or decubitus ulcers). read more...

Are Nursing Homes Liable for Falls?

Nursing homes have a duty to protect residents from injury.  Residents who have known ambulatory issues (such as difficulty walking, fainting, or moving from a bed to a wheelchair, etc.) should not be left to walk or to move from a bed unattended. read more...

Are Nursing Homes Responsible for Choking?

Nursing homes often fail to perform interdisciplinary assessments (IA’s) to identify residents at risk for choking, or to follow the resident care plan created from the IA (like giving the resident only blended food or assisting the resident with eating). When a nursing home fails in these or other obligations and a resident is injured or dies as a result, the nursing home may be liable.   read more...

Nursing Home Failed to Call Police After Sex Offender Abused Resident

A CNY nursing home didn’t call cops after sex offender abused resident 3 separate times. Oswego, N.Y. nursing home did not call police after a registered sex offender living in the facility repeatedly sexually abused a female resident suffering from dementia, according to the state. Pontiac Nursing Home in Oswego failed to consistently monitor the read more...

Bill Friedlander Named to COVID-19 Task Force

Scott Karson, President of the New York State Bar Association has appointed Bill Friedlander to a new task force focused on the impact of COVID-19 on Nursing homes. The Task Force will take a hard look at the statutory and regulatory framework under which nursing homes and long-term care facilities operate and make recommendations for change where needed. read more...

Difficulty in Staffing is Not an Excuse for Injury, Abuse, or Neglect

In most instances, the staff quality of a nursing home will be the single most important factor in determining whether a loved one is at risk of injury. With the current low employment, many nursing homes and care facilities are finding that it is increasingly difficult to find competent employees (at least at the wages read more...

Secret List of Troubled New York Nursing Homes Disclosed by US Senate – Is Your Loved One’s Home on the List?

Is your loved one’s home on the list? See the complete list of troubled New York Nursing Homes. read more...

Resident on Resident Nursing Home Assault

Nursing homes and assisted living centers have a legal duty to keep residents safe, and to maintain their dignity.  Unfortunately, nursing homes  often fail to fulfill these duties, which can result in injury or even death to residents. One tragic circumstance of nursing homes failing to protect residents occurs when nursing homes fail to keep read more...

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