As a lawyers specializing in nursing home abuse cases, we have seen firsthand the devastating impact of understaffing in skilled nursing facilities. It’s a crisis that affects not only the residents but also their families who trust these facilities to provide quality care. Therefore, when the House Ways and Means…
In the early hours of a Sunday morning, a devastating fire tore through the Harmon Shepard Hill apartments, a senior housing complex in Plainview, Long Island. This tragic incident claimed the lives of two women, 84-year-old Theresa Casale and 74-year-old Lynne Citron, and displaced about 20 residents, highlighting a dire…
Amidst growing concerns about the quality of care in nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently introduced proposed guidelines aimed at improving staffing levels. However, a new estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has revealed that a staggering 81% of nursing home facilities nationwide, and…
Conditions at for-profit nursing homes worsened during the pandemic and patients suffered from it according to a recent report by by the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. The Subcommittee looked at 5 for-profit chains that operate around 850 nursing homes with a total of 80,000 residents…
Sadly elder abuse is quite common in the US. It is estimated that 5 to 10% of elders suffer abuse of various types such as physical or psychological abuse, financial exploitation or neglect. Often those who are abused suffer multiple types of abuse together. Depression, chronic illness hospitalization and placement…
In New York State, many nursing home residents are neglected because the facilities are significantly understaffed. Most nursing homes are run by corporations that are more interested in increasing their shareholder profit rather than making sure their residents are proprely taken care off. Additionally, the staff is so poorly paid,…
A policy instituted in 2017 that restricted fines to a maximum one-time amount of $22,320 to nursing homes violating safety standards, even if violations were persisting, has been reversed. The reversal of the policy comes 6 months after the AAARP Foundation filed a Lawsuit with the help of a Washington…
Victims of nursing home abuse , hospital neglect or medical malpractice in New York State not related to Covid-19 can legally hold healthcare professionals responsible for their negligence again. Yesterday, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that rolls back the legal immunity that nursing homes and hospitals were granted…
A recent study at a New York emergency room compared the injuries of elderly patients who suffered physical abuse with the injuries of elderly patients who suffered unintentional fall. The reason for the study was for the emergency room professionals to be able to identify “red flags” for elderly abuse. …
Dozens of resident at The Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation died from Covid-19 but the facility failed to report them. The nursing home was slapped with violations from the NY Health Department for hiding the deaths of 25 residents. The facility was reported by a neighbor who recorded a…