Category: Nursing Home Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Understaffing New Data: Nursing Homes Inflated Staffing Reports For Years Nearly 1.4 million Americans reside in skilled nursing facilities. The majority of patients require daily assistance with bathing, eating, dressing and mobility.  Recently released data indicates that thousands of nursing homes exaggerated staffing levels for years […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Stricter Investigation Rules for Victims Nursing home abuse is a real problem in California and the California Legislature is doing something about it. Effective July 1, 2018, California law requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to complete investigations of nursing home complaints within 60 days of receipt. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes Serious Cases Underreported A recent federal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that more than 25 percent of serious nursing home abuse incidents are never reported to law enforcement agencies. Unreported cases include cases where the nursing home resident’s […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes Resident Evictions Complaints about allegedly improper evictions and discharges from nursing homes are on the rise in California according to government data.  The trend is disturbing and frankly outrageous: such complaints have risen 70% in the last five years reaching 1,504 complaints during […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes Resident Evictions Complaints about allegedly improper evictions and discharges from nursing homes are on the rise in California according to government data. Such complaints have risen 70% in the last five years reaching 1,504 complaints during the past year alone. These complaints are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nurse Receives Award For Reporting Nursing Home Abuse The San Mateo County and California nursing home abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm Inc. often share in this column stories of nursing home abuse, including incidences of overmedication or improper medication of patients as a form of abuse. A […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Arbitration Clause in Nursing Home Admission Contract Struck Down Recently, a California appellate court refused to enforce an arbitration provision in a nursing home admission contract finding that the 94 year-old nursing home resident suffering from Alzheimer’s had not agreed to arbitrate disputes with the home. In the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes  Resident Dumping California public interest groups are fighting a disturbing trend in nursing homes sending Medi-Cal patients to hospitals and then refusing to allow them to return. This practice is known as “resident dumping.”  Marin County and California nursing home abuse attorneys at […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes Medication Concerns The nursing home abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm Inc. often write in this column about the sad reality of nursing home abuse in Alameda County and throughout California. A recent CNN story uncovered the increased rates at which a particular […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Abuse A Growing Crime Against Elders Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes Elder abuse has become an epidemic in this country. The number of elders being abuse is estimated at around 2.5 million every single year. Such statistics are heartbreaking and as the US population ages the figures are […]