It is often difficult finding the best Phoenix personal injury attorney to handle nursing home abuse cases. This is not due to the lack of personal injury lawyers that handle these types of cases, but due more because of the difficulty of finding a lawyer who meets a family’s needs on a personal level as well as having experience in handling Arizona nursing home abuse cases.
Personal injury cases involving nursing homes are difficult for everyone involved. They cause the most obvious difficulty to the person who suffered the injury as a result of neglect or abuse by the nursing home, but these situations also take a toll on their families as well. A family entrusts a nursing home with the care of a parent or grandparent or spouse and, usually after much research, they put their loved one in the place where they feel that they will receive the best care. Having this trust violated is emotionally draining.
In addition to this, the family usually feels that the nursing home should be held responsible for the abuse or neglect that occurred. As experienced Phoenix nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers, we understand this. The first step to take is finding whether abuse or neglect actually took place at the nursing home, and this normally requires contacting an experienced Phoenix injury attorney with experience in Arizona nursing home and neglect cases that can answer your questions. As certified specialist by the State Bar of Arizona in injury and wrongful death law, I will happily answer any questions you may have about suspected nursing home abuse or neglect.
Patients in a nursing home are often completely reliant upon their caregivers to provide them proper medication. However, sometimes the caregivers do not properly follow through with the trust that they have been given. Sometimes, the caregivers overmedicate patients. Surprisingly, sometimes this is done intentionally in order to prevent the patient from complaining or voicing his or her concerns about the treatment he or she is receiving.
Also, there are times where necessary medication that is vital to the health of the patient at the nursing home or skilled nursing facility is not provided. Failure to take proper care of a patient at a skilled nursing facility when it comes to these serious prescription medications is unacceptable. More importantly, this type of abuse and neglect is protected under Arizona law and the Arizona Adult Protective Services Act.
If you have a loved one that has suffered injury as a result of the medications that were provided in too high of a dosage or too frequently or, in the alternative, important medications that were not provided that have led to injury, please feel free to give us a call. At Breyer Law Offices, our skilled Tucson nursing home abuse lawyers will be happy to discuss your rights with you and the ways that you may consider how to proceed with a potential claim against that nursing facility.
Unfortunately, many elderly or physically disabled people are what is termed a “fall risk” in their medical chart. In other words, many people are known to be at risk of falling. Now, for those not familiar with those who are fall risks, they may not realize the significant danger injury when a fall occurs. This is not a situation where a person is falling down and they are already in good physical condition and they are able to break their fall easily. Instead, somebody who is a fall risk is very likely to not be able to break their fall in any way. Very serious head trauma, broken bones, broken hips, and other injuries occur when people who are a fall risk are allowed to fall. These falls are very often completely preventable.
In fact, if the simple guidelines that are set out by the medical professionals are followed, most people who are fall risks will not suffer from falls and will not suffer serious injuries. Where somebody is allowed to fall and suffer a serious injury at a nursing home or a skilled nursing facility, it is often a sign of neglect on the part of the facility. This negligence is preventable. Oftentimes, bringing an Arizona elder neglect injury claim for this type of incident will not only provide a measure of justice to the person who was hurt and their family that trusted this facility, but will force the facility to follow proper guidelines and prevent injuries to other people from occurring in the future.
If you or anybody you know has suffered a fall at a skilled nursing facility and you have questions about what rights you may have, please do not hesitate to give us a call. We are happy to provide you the information that you seek so that you can determine the best path to pursue any claim or, whether it is in your family’s best interest to choose not to do so. The first step, however, is to gather the information and get the answers from an Arizona personal injury lawyer with experience helping people in nursing home abuse cases.
Arizona personal injury lawyers that bring claims against skilled nursing facilities know that the laws that protect the elderly also protect family members who are in those homes because of physical or mental disabilities. Very often, there is a lot of discussion about nursing home and skilled nursing facilities abusing or neglecting those patients who are elderly. Rightfully so. These people should not be abused and the elderly should be protected.
However, the same laws that protect the elderly – the Adult Protective Services Act – also protect those who are patients at a skilled nursing facility or nursing home from abuse or neglect. These adults, while not elderly, are also at times at the mercy of the people who provide them care. These vulnerable adults deserve the protection that is afforded to them under Arizona law.
If you suspect that a loved one is suffering emotional or physical abuse or neglect at a skilled nursing facility, please do not hesitate to contact our Phoenix elder abuse attorneys at Breyer Law Offices, P.C. We will provide you the answers that you need and an honest discussion of the legal remedies that may be available to you or your family member.
For most Arizona personal injury cases, the death of the person who was injured – if it is completely unrelated to the personal injury claim – causes the loss of many of the rights available under the lawsuit. However, Arizona law protects the claims that are made against a negligent or abusive nursing home even if the elderly person who was abused later dies as a result of something completely unrelated to the abuse. In this way, Arizona law does not allow these negligent or abusive nursing to avoid responsibility for their unacceptable actions simply because they happened to, for the most part, have residents who they are supposed to be helping who are elderly and therefore statistically more likely to not survive the sometimes long road of a personal injury nursing home case.
If you have any questions whatsoever about what rights exist for a nursing home case in Arizona, we encourage you to find a lawyer who will give you honest answers to your questions. It is very easy for a lawyer to simply tell families what they believe the family “wants to here.” However, in the long run this is not the best way to approach these cases. These cases are very difficult on the entire family. It is shocking to find out that a loved one has been abused or neglected in a nursing home. At that point, the family deserves an honest assessment of their rights and their case as opposed to simply being given a “sugar coated” version of the law.
If your family has questions or suspects potential nursing home abuse or neglect, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our Arizona nursing home abuse attorneys will be happy to give you a straightforward assessment of any claims and any rights that you may have.
The best Arizona nursing home abuse lawyers will rely heavily upon the protections provided in the Adult Protective Services Act (APSA) in helping out the person who has suffered injury as a result of the abuse or neglect by a nursing home or skilled nursing facility. Nursing home abuse is intolerable and unacceptable. Holding these nursing homes that abuse their patients responsible not only helps provide a measure of justice to the innocent elderly victim, but also helps prevent others from being similarly abused.
However, it is not always easy for a family to decide whether or not they want to hire a nursing home lawyer. Sometimes, the family would prefer to simply “move on” and forget about the entire incident. Perhaps this is best for certain families. This is not a judgment that can be made by anybody outside of that family itself. However, a family certainly has a right to know what their rights are under Arizona law so that they can make an informed decision before deciding whether or not to pursue a nursing home abuse claim.
If you have any questions whatsoever about the laws in Arizona that protect people from nursing home abuse and what claims may be allowed, please do not hesitate to give us a call. We will provide you the information you need so that you can decide whether or not it is in the best interest of your loved one and your family to proceed.
Finding a top Arizona personal injury lawyer to help with nursing home abuse cases can be difficult. It is not difficult because there a lack of lawyers who handle these cases. The difficulty can be in finding a lawyer with experience in helping those who have been seriously injured and who fit your family’s needs on a personal level.
Nursing home cases are very difficult for all involved. They are obviously most difficult for the parent or grandparent who has suffered injury as a result of abuse or neglect by the nursing home. However, there is almost always an emotional toll for the entire family. The family entrusted their loved one with a nursing home to care for their parent or grandparent or spouse. In these cases, it is usually only after researching the best “fit” for the loved one that they entrusted their loved one in the hands of another. To have that trust violated and to have a loved one suffer an unnecessary injury is emotionally taxing.
On top of that, there is often a feeling that the nursing home should be held responsible for their actions. This is understandable. The first step is trying to find out whether or not there is any evidence to support the belief that there was in fact abuse or neglect by the nursing home. To do this, the first step is often contacting an experienced Arizona injury lawyer to get the answers to your questions. As a certified specialist in injury and wrongful death litigation by the State Bar of Arizona, I am always happy to provide the answers to the questions you have regarding any suspected Arizona nursing home abuse or neglect.
