NURSING HOME NEGLECT & ABUSE LAWYERS

WHEN NATIONAL STANDARDS ARE NEGLECTED, INJURY CAN OCCUR

National standards for nursing home care mandate that care providers spend sufficient time with each resident every day to provide quality care. This time is designated for assessing the residents’ condition, keeping residents hydrated, turning residents to prevent bed sores, administering medication and providing other necessary care. Many nursing homes are understaffed or do not have the resources to provide mandated care. When care is overlooked, nursing home neglect can manifest in injuries and wrongful death fatalities.

At Gannett Law, PLLC our nursing home neglect lawyers handle claims arising throughout Montana involving the following:

– Bed sores or pressure sores (pressure ulcers)
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Malnutrition
– Dehydration
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Medication/Medical errors
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Falling injury, such as broken bones, head injury or lesions
– Wandering off
– Unsanitary conditions or poor hygiene
– Bruises or other injuries caused by misuse of restraints

We work to answer the questions on the minds of our clients. How did this happen? Why was someone like this allowed to work with vulnerable adults?

Unfortunately, due to under-staffing or inadequate resources, many nursing homes must lower their standards when hiring new staff. While background checks and other hiring practices must be adhered to, certain people can still slip through the cracks. Other nurses, nursing assistants or aids are simply overworked and overburdened with the demands of their occupation – working double shifts, working overnight shifts and working under the constraints of inadequate staffing – and they either negligently or intentionally cause harm to the vulnerable adults whom they are responsible for.

Gannett  Law, PLLC handles nursing home abuse and elder abuse cases involving:

– Physical abuse causing bruises, broken bones or burns
– Elder financial abuse by nursing home staff
– Nursing home neglect which results in falling injury, medication errors or other injury
– Other elder abuse or nursing home abuse

HELPING THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE FAMILIES

Our attorneys know that many people do not have families to report suspected elder abuse. By litigating nursing home neglect cases, we can prevent future abuse and protect people who do not have families.