Florida’s volunteer ombudsmen investigated 9,098 complaints against long term care facilities in 2010, more than they have ever investigated in the 35-year history of the program, according to the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.
In addition to record-high numbers of complaint investigations, volunteer and staff ombudsmen also completed 100 percent of the program’s prescribed facility assessments. [...]
More and more in our personal injury practice, we are seeing arbitration agreements that have been signed by our clients at the request of businesses and nursing homes trying to avoid responsibility for their negligence.
The agreements provide that the resident gives up the right to file a lawsuit in court and ask for a jury [...]
Your mother used to tell you to “play nice.” What she meant was don’t hit your friends, don’t yell at them, don’t ignore them, don’t take things away from them, share and don’t call them names. Your mom usually told you to “play nice” when you were violating one of these rules. You were probably [...]
Nursing home care is expensive. Many people do not have long-term care insurance and cannot afford to pay It’s a private nursing home fees. The result is that government pays for a great deal of nursing home care through Medicare and Medicaid.
The problem is that because these programs taken together do not pay well they [...]
Nursing home residents and their families all too often face very difficult choices about quality of life while in the nursing home. Some medical procedures extend life but can cause a serious deterioration in the quality of life. We have noticed over the years that our clients in Daytona Beach, Deltona, New Smyrna Beach, [...]