Category: Nursing Home Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Abuse at Area Hospital/Skilled Nursing Facility 23 Elder and Dependent Adult Dementia Patients Allegedly Abused The City of San Francisco and Laguna Honda Hospital were rocked by the announcement last Friday of allegations of abuse at the hospital, which operates as a 780-bed skilled nursing facility. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Residents at Risk of Abuse and Neglect Nursing home abuse includes all manner of physical abuse and neglect, including sexual assault and rape, and the incidents of such abuse can be horrific. The Marin County elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. know how horrible and potentially […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California Care Home Owner Convicted of Death of Elderly Dementia Patient A California care home owner will spend time in jail for the death of a 65-year-old dementia patient struck and killed by a car when he wandered out of the care home where he lived.[1] During investigation […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk of Abuse and Neglect Another Shocking Story of Nursing Home Abuse Elderly patients abused in nursing homes have a 300 percent greater chance of death in the 3 years following the abuse than those who are not abused according to studies.  Sadly, nursing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk of Abuse and Neglect When Quality Care Loses Out to the Bottom Line The nursing home abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. represent elderly persons injured by abuse or neglect in the nursing homes of Marin County and throughout California. Our attorneys […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers and Financial Elder Abuse Keep Valuables and Important Papers in a Safe Place Whenever a stranger is in an elderly person’s home or nursing home room, the senior’s valuables are at risk of theft. Unscrupulous caregivers strike quickly and it may be some time before the senior […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Private-Equity Firms, Conglomerates, and Nursing Homes When Quality Care Loses Out to the Bottom Line Conglomerates and private-equity firms own huge numbers of nursing homes in the United States and the impact on the residents in those homes is not good. The focus is on profits not care. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents Vulnerable to Financial Elder Abuse Workers Target 97-year-old Nursing Home Resident Elder physical abuse and neglect can be fatal to nursing home residents. But residents may also be victims of devastating financial elder abuse by unscrupulous nursing home workers. In a case reported just this […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER “Boomeranging” Nursing Home Residents “When in doubt, ship them out” is an all too unfortunate saying in nursing homes. The saying refers to a common nursing home practice of shipping residents to hospitals for non-clinical reasons, chiefly that the patient may need slightly more care than the nursing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Notify Authorities But Always Seek Counsel In California, anyone with a complaint about a nursing home can file that complaint with the Licensing and Certification Division of the California Department of Public Health (DPH). Complaints may concern abuse, neglect, poor care, injuries from elopement or wandering, lack of […]