The attorney general for the state of Illinois recently proposed strategies for protecting nursing home residents from assaults by other nursing home residents with criminal histories. The Attorney General was motivated by a series of newspaper articles describing assaults, rapes and murder by mentally ill criminals who also lived in the nursing homes. The Attorney [...]
During our over 20 years of representing clients in nursing home abuse and malpractice litigation in Daytona Beach and Deltona we have noticed that the course of nursing home lawsuits is strikingly similar from one case to the next. Nursing homes often repeat the same mistakes such as failing to turn and reposition a patient [...]
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration is responsible for licensing and regulating nursing homes throughout the state of Florida. Each year the agency inspects nursing homes to determine whether they meet the standards for operation under Florida law.
Although the dates of inspection are not announced, nursing homes sometimes are able to anticipate when the [...]