Caregiver Neglect

Los Angeles Nursing Home Neglect Attorney

The law requires nurses and other personnel at nursing homes to provide a high standard of care. Unfortunately, many of these employees are hired despite their lack of skills and self-discipline. In other cases, nursing home management fails to provide necessary training or supervision of these employees. Why? Oftentimes the reason is simple greed.

The result can be needless suffering on the part of nursing home residents due to caregiver neglect, management's decisions to cut staff, and other types of negligence.

The term caregiver neglect covers a wide range of harmful acts inflicted on nursing home residents. These include:

• Insufficient monitoring of residents
• Pressure sores
• Dehydration
• Inadequate nutrition or failure to follow a prescribed diet
• Medication errors
• Improper restraints
• And other types of negligent behavior

In some cases, it may be difficult to distinguish caregiver neglect from intentional acts of cruelty such as physical abuse. For the family member of the victim, making this distinction is not as important as stopping the behavior from happening again.

At the firm of Peter K. Levine, we are attorneys with extensive experience in cases involving nursing home neglect, nursing home abuse and other acts of negligence. In working for you, we will seek to stop nursing home neglect wherever it happens and obtain maximum compensation.

Call 866.819.4503 toll free or send us an e-mail for a free initial consultation.

Caregiver Neglect, Managerial Negligence or Managerial Recklessness?

An individual caregiver at a nursing home can, without the knowledge of management, neglect a resident or commit acts of physical abuse against that resident. But those in charge of the facility have the legal responsibility to ensure that nurses and staff are competent, trained and properly supervised. Many cases of caregiver neglect are in fact the result of negligence on the part of nursing home management, as well as conscious choices to reduce staff while increasing the number of patients. If managerial negligence is not exposed at a facility, it will in all likelihood continue, as will the needless suffering of the residents there.

At our firm, we take action on behalf of victims of caregiver neglect, managerial negligence and intentional abuse inflicted on nursing home residents. If your loved one has suffered neglect or abuse, ask us for a free initial consultation.

We will use our experience and legal knowledge to obtain compensation, justice and a stop to wrongful behavior.

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For a free initial consultation with Peter K. Levine, call 866.819.4503 toll free or send us an e-mail.