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Nursing home falls are common among resdients. If you or a family member live in a Michigan nursing home and suffer injuries from a fall due to neglgent care from the nurse, caregiver, or unsafe environments, it can give rise to a Michigan nursing home neglect case. Call us now at (800) 606-1717 to speak with an experienced Michigan nursing homne abuse lawyer.
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A Michigan nursing home neglect lawsuit was filed in Saginaw against a nursing home and nursing doctor on behalf of a patient who suffered a bed sore requiring surgery at the nursing home.
I have written several articles recently regarding hip fractures that result from falls in nursing homes. These fall often occur because residents are not properly supervised or bed rails are not up in their beds. These incidents can give rise to a nursing home lawsuit.
The outcome for nursing home residents who sustain a hip fracture are disappointing:
17% to 33% mortality rate for the year following the fall
25% to 33% of residents are unable to walk following surgery and physical therapy
Up to 15% of hip fracture patients suffer from pressure sores
A nursing home or residential care facility may be liable for the injuries that result from a hip fracture in their nursing home. Because the recovery is difficult and uncertain, the damages in these cases can be significant. It is important to contact our law firm as soon as possible after an incident so that we can begin our investigation of the incident, locate witnesses, and secure the medical chart before it can be altered.
Our Michigan nursing home neglect lawyers recently added a Library article to our website on cases involving malnourishment and dehydration. This is a serious issue with many nursing home residents. Many are frail and weak in the first place, and the failure to properly nourish and hydrate these patients can cause serious medical problems and even death. It is important that family members of residents look for signs of malnourishment and neglect, like rapid weight loss, weakness, and dried lips, and bring this to the attention of the staff immediately so that proper measures can be taken. Patients who do suffer these conditions may have the right to file a Michigan nursing home negligence lawsuit.
A common issue in nursing homes and hospital is the use of bed rails for residents. These are often necessary to prevent patients from falling off their beds and suffering injuries, like hip fractures. However, there is also a concern that bed rails themselves can cause serious injuries or even death to a patient.
We recently added a Library Page to our website on Bed Rail Entanglement Injuries. These are injuries that occur when a patient becomes physically entangled inside the gaps in the bed rail. This can cause strangulation and other injuries. There are specific actions that a medical facility can take to prevent this type of injury from happening and the failure to implement these measures can give rise to a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Our Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse Lawyers handle cases against nursing homes involving patients falling from their beds and suffering broken hips and other serious injuries. We recently added an article to our library called "Bed Rails in Nursing Homes" that describes these incidents and the legal rights that can be asserted by or on behalf of an injured patient. These incidents are not "accidents" as the nursing home would like you to think, but rather preventable incidents of injury that occur because the nursing home staff was not following orders.
Our Michigan nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers often represent nursing home patients and their families in cases against nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Michigan. When a person voluntarily moves into a nursing home or the family makes the tough decision to place someone in a nursing home, there is a great deal of trust that the patient will be properly treated and cared for by the staff. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
Too often, the patient is neglected and even abused by the nursing home staff. The nursing home doctors may not be properly monitoring or treating the patient and the nursing home staff may not be following doctor's order or taking care of the basic needs of the patients. Other cases involve injuries from patient falls, choking injuries, and even patients wandering away from the nursing home.
In these cases, it is essential to contact our office immediately so that we can begin investigating your case for improper treatment. It is important for us to obtain the full medical chart and gather as much information quickly to prove the case. Because many patients simply cannot communicate what happened to them or how they were treated, they rely on you as family members to provide that information to us. Quite often, things like a history family complaints about care at the facility, are often necessary to prove and win the case.
When you talk to the aging population about their biggest fears in the aging process, it seems like many fear being placed into nursing homes when they can no longer care for themselves and it becomes too hard on their families to do the same. Family members also have signfiicant fears that their loved ones will not be properly cared for and may even be abused in the nrusing facility. All too often, we hear of instances when in fact this nightmare actually becomes reality.
A recent case in San Mateo, California just settled for a woman senior citizen who suffered scalding burn injuries while she was seated in a shower with the temperature set at 145 degrees. The patient suffered third degree burns over sixty percent of her body. Incredibly, the nursing home disputed liability until just before jury selection, when they finally anted up and settled the case.
