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Nursing Home Abuse Report is here to help you expose the national epidemic of nursing home abuse. Assisted living residents throughout the United States are often neglected and suffer serious injuries and death, due to the negligence and greed that is pervasive in many nursing homes.
We will hold these people accountable for abusing our loved elders.
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If you think someone is being abused or neglected at a nursing home, you can and should take action, and we are here to help.
Our goal is to fight for seniors and their loved ones to prevent the horrors of abuse and neglect in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. By knowing what to look for and being educated on the warning signs, you can help end the cycle of abuse.
Nursing homes should be a place where seniors can live safely, peacefully, and happily, as they age. However, many senior citizens suffer serious physical abuse and become victims of chronic neglect in many nursing homes throughout the United States.
You have legal options if someone your loved ones have been abused. You have the ability to expose the horrors of a neglectful nursing home. Don’t let the abuse go unreported.
Our legal team is here to help fight for the right of seniors and to fight for just compensation for you and your family if someone you know has suffered abuse at a nursing home.
Call (713) 909-4325 or fill-out the intake form on this page to see if compensation is available for the abuse you suffered.
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How To Spot Hursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Mysterious Injuries
Cuts, bruises, sores, and welts appear unexpectedly and without a reasonable explanation.
Easily Agitated
Victim easily becomes agitatedbecomes upset and/or , withdrawn or non-communicative, especially around nursing home staff.
Rapid Weight Changes
Victim experiences rapid weight loss, weight gain, or symptoms of malnutrition. For example: easily bruises, poor wound healing, sores in mouth, dental problems, etc.
Frequently Ill
Victims are frequently ill for extended periods of time. Especially if these symptons are often not reported to family members.
UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR
Victim displays unusual behavior traits with rapid changes in mood. For example: biting, physical/facial tics, rocking, not wanting to be touched.
Recent News About Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
5 Ga. nursing homes get abuse label
Federal website flags homes charged with neglect
ANDY MILLER | Georgia Health News | Updated: Nov. 29, 2019, 8:52 p.m.
Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.
That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.
The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5 percent of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Opposition to Nursing Home Abuse Icon Grows as Group Warns of ‘Unintended Consequences’
By Alex Spanko | November 25, 2019
The long-term and post-acute care industry’s reaction to a new federal abuse warning icon for nursing homes was swift and negative when the plan was first announced last month — and now another voice has entered the fray to claim that the icons may actually do more harm than good.
Leaders from AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, late last week characterized the icon as a misguided approach toward improving nursing home safety.
“We truly believe that this approach will have unintended consequences, and in fact be counterproductive to achieving the high-quality patient outcomes for which we strive,” AMDA president Arif Nazir and executive director Christopher Laxton wrote in a Friday letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma. “It will also be clearly detrimental to the motivation and engagement of thousands of very hard-working front-line staff members.”
Red Icon Warns Consumers Of Nursing Homes With Abuse Records
ANDY MILLER, GEORGIA HEALTH NEWS
NOV 25, 2019
Nursing home abuse citations, issued by state agencies after they have investigated complaints, remain rare, The Wall Street Journal reported. But the Government Accountability Office, a federal fact-finding agency, said in a June report that violations of federal standards more than doubled between 2013 and 2017 to 875.
Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.
That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.
The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5% of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to The Wall Street Journal.
New icon warns of nursing home abuse, neglect
By Andy Miller
Nov 24, 2019
ATLANTA — Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.
That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.
The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5 percent of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The new icons are given to nursing homes where government investigators found evidence of abuse that led to harm of a resident within the past year and/or abuse or neglect that could have potentially led to harm of a resident in each of the past two years, the Journal reported.
Nursing Home Compare now warns consumers about abuse violations
November 21, 2019
CMS on its Nursing Home Compare website has begun indicating when nursing homes have been cited for abuse violations, and while the move has been applauded by consumer advocates, some in the nursing home industry say the alerts are misleading.
CMS adds alerts to Nursing Home Compare
CMS’ Nursing Home Compare website assigns a certain number of stars to nursing home facilities, similar to systems used to rate hotels. The best possible rating Medicare can give to a nursing home is five stars. The ratings are designed for both consumers and providers, who use them to help decide where to refer patients when they are discharged from hospitals.
Grassley has opportunity to help prevent nursing home abuse
Comprehensive background checks can help eliminate predators in the workforce
Dean Lerner
Published 1:11 p.m. CT Nov. 20, 2019
This fall, the Senate Finance Committee, led by our own Senator Grassley, is expected to unveil a bill to address abuse and neglect in nursing homes and other long-term care settings. The bill is long overdue, given countless government studies addressing these horrific problems and specifying solutions.
Lawmakers are set to announce a series of policies to provide more funding for detection and reporting of elder abuse. Will they also take meaningful steps to prevent abuse in long-term care settings?
New Government Tool Opens Window Into Nursing-Home Abuse
Roughly 5% of facilities received new red icon, seen as misleading by industry executives
By Yuka Hayashi
Nov. 19, 2019 5:30 am ET
The federal government has begun flagging nursing homes with a history of resident mistreatment, opening a new window into abuse and neglect in as many as one in 20 elder-care facilities across the U.S.
The government’s database, Nursing Home Compare, has for years allowed the public to search and compare nursing homes nationwide. But last month, the government began adding a small icon—a red circle with a white hand inside—by the name of nursing facilities recently cited for abuse or neglect.
NURSING HOMES: Better Oversight Needed to Protect Residents from Abuse
GAO-20-259T:
Published: Nov 14, 2019.
To protect vulnerable nursing home residents from abuse, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with state agencies—known as survey agencies—that can cite nursing homes for incidents of abuse.
Our June 2019 report found that, while abuse in nursing homes is often underreported, abuse citations more than doubled from 2013-2017. We also found gaps in CMS’s oversight that made it harder to protect residents and we made six recommendations to address this.
This statement for the record updates the status of these recommendations and others from prior GAO reports that examined the health and welfare of the elderly.