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Category: Nursing Home Abuse

Death of Daniel Scanlan Ruled Homicide

Published on October 2, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

Northampton County Coroner, Zachary Lysek, has ruled that Daniel Scanlan, an 84-year-old veteran and long-time resident of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, died on April 4, 2017 as a result of “complications of blunt force head trauma” which occurred at Arden Courts of Old Orchard in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania. The certificate of death from the coroner’s office states that Mr. Scanlan was “pushed by another resident causing him to fall and strike his head.” As a result, the coroner marked “homicide” as the “manner of death” on the[...]
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Presidential Administration Endangering the Elderly

Published on June 12, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

Last year, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Service (CMS) finalized a new rule that bans nursing homes from forcing patients and their families into private arbitration. These mandatory arbitration clauses were hidden in the contract’s fine print, and many families were unaware of the term or misunderstood what private arbitration entailed. This type of arbitration is a practice that keeps any potential nursing home abuse charges out of the public court system, which weakens a patients’ legal leverage. On June 5, 2017, CMS released another proposed rule[...]
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Rigorous Penalty System Leads to More Fines for Pennsylvania Nursing Homes

Published on May 23, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

In previous years, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has been rather lax in its penalty system regarding complaints of substandard and negligent care in nursing homes. However, within the first four months of this year, there has been a drastic change. In fact, the state has exacted more fines during this period than the previous three years combined, hinting at a much-needed change in how the industry’s failings are handled. While it is promising to see substandard nursing care finally being addressed, it is still to be seen[...]
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Current Administration to Lift Ban on Nursing Home Arbitration Clauses

Published on May 5, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

There are more than 2 million cases of elder abuse every year, and those are only the cases that are reported. One out of every 10 people will experience some form of elder abuse. Because families often don’t have the time or resources to devote to the full-time care that seniors sometimes need, they depend on skilled nursing facilities to provide help where they can’t. When skilled nursing facilities care for elderly people, they and their friends and relatives are placing their trust in these businesses. When that[...]
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HR Bill 1215 Jeopardizes Justice in Nursing Home Abuse Cases

Published on April 12, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

Juries typically recognize that nursing home abuse causes severe consequences and permanent emotional scarring, and occurs due to preventable mistakes or intentional harm. As a result, some cases close with a seven-figure award amount that the harmed elder and their family absolutely deserves. A recently proposed bill could counteract progress, though, by seriously limiting how much a plaintiff can collect in noneconomic damages for successful nursing home abuse claims. HR Bill 1215, which is being advertised as the “Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017,” would limit noneconomic damages in[...]
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Sexual Abuse in Nursing Homes: An Unchecked Epidemic

Published on February 22, 2017, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing home abuse and neglect can take many forms, including the familiar types of wrongdoing such as physical and emotional abuse, neglecting basic needs, and financial exploitation. While families may be generally aware of these issues when choosing an assisted care facility for their elderly loved one, few give a second thought to another more sinister and inexcusable type of abuse: sexual assault. While the inability or unwillingness of the elderly to speak out about sexual assault makes it inherently difficult to determine the true number of sexual abuse[...]
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Protect Yourself from Forced Arbitration Clauses

Published on December 6, 2016, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

Mobile phones, nursing homes, credit cards, and now bank accounts that you never even agreed to have opened in your name!? Corporate America is using forced arbitration clauses buried on many of the contracts you agree to every day to close the courthouse door in your face. These oppressive “fine print” clauses, which most people never read, are potent tools used to limit your right to sue and effectively recover against big corporations. Why do they use these clauses? Because they win far more often in front of[...]
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Identifying Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Warning Signs

Published on August 29, 2016, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

As elders become physically and mentally incapable of caring for themselves, many people put their elderly loved ones into a nursing home. Nursing homes are designed to provide medical care and various forms of therapy so that the occupants of that nursing home are as healthy as possible despite ages and conditions. Majority of occupants in nursing homes do not need hospital care, but need to be watched over and tended to several times a day. Oftentimes, unfortunately, many nursing homes fail to provide the appropriate services,committing acts[...]
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The Beginning of a New Formation of Nursing Home Regulations

Published on August 7, 2015, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

After the Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit against Golden Gate National Senior Care due to alleged inadequate care, poorly trained staff members, and not enough staff members in 14 different nursing home facilities, the Auditor General and the Department of Health (DOH) formed a task force to review the state regulations of these facilities over a six-month period. Currently, the DOH is permitted to place provisional statuses on facilities not performing up to par. During this period, the nursing home is able to operate but must be monitored by[...]
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Seniors Medication Adherence: A Compounding Problem

Published on May 13, 2013, by SHRAGER SACHS & BLANCO | Nursing Home Abuse

More than half of seniors admit to not taking their medications as directed. For those living alone, this can be due to a variety of factors. For a senior living in a nursing home, this can be a result of poor oversight by the facility. Almost half of Americans age 65 years and older take at least five different prescription medications regularly, according to a recent study from Kelton Research. When a senior is taking a variety of medications in different dosages over an extended period of time, frequently[...]
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