Nursing Home Negligence
– Spangenberg Attorneys Helping to Protect Our Elderly Citizens
Our parents protected and nurtured us while we were growing up. But as they grow older, sometimes our parents need our help because an injury or illness won’t allow them to take care of themselves independently. Oftentimes, a nursing home is the only practical solution for protecting an elderly family member who can no longer live independently. Unfortunately, our most vulnerable and fragile citizens can become the victims of negligence or abuse by the very people who are paid to care for them. When this occurs, the Spangenberg nursing home neglect attorneys are prepared to help the family discover what happened and hold the nursing home accountable.
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The Painful Loss of a Mother
Recently, nursing home neglect attorney Stuart Scott successfully concluded a case on behalf of a family who lost their mother after she had fallen in the nursing home twice in less than a month. After the second fall, it was discovered she had broken her left hip. After surviving the hip repair surgery, she died three weeks later ~ a well-known complication of hip fractures in the elderly. Only through the lawsuit did the family learn that their mother had been injured because an STNA (State Tested Nursing Assistant) had failed to follow the nursing home’s written procedure for transferring their mother from her wheelchair to her bed. These events also resulted in the nursing home adopting the use of gait belts, a simple device used by an STNA or nurse to maintain control over the patient during a transfer to prevent falls. In this case, the STNA was using their mother’s pants as a hand hold instead of a gait belt and lost control resulting in a preventable fall which required the resident to be taken to the emergency department with a head wound.
Nursing Home Fractured Hip Leads to Death
In another matter, one of the Spangenberg nursing home negligence lawyers Nicholas DiCello is currently representing the family of an elderly nursing home resident who suffered a fractured hip while being transferred by aids to and from a sister facility on a recreational outing. Unfortunately, the elderly woman soon died as a result of her injury. The circumstances surrounding the resident’s injuries and death are particularly troubling to the family. Specifically, the family’s mother was being pushed in her wheelchair by a nursing home aide when the aide became distracted by an unaccompanied resident who was beginning to fall. Left unattended, the wheelchair overturned, dumping the family’s mother to the ground causing multiple injuries, the most serious of which was a fractured hip. Unfortunately, the hip fracture went undetected for several excruciatingly painful days. Once diagnosed, the resident was sent for surgery. Given her advanced age, however, complications ensued and the family’s mother soon perished. Understandably, the family is outraged over the circumstances leading to their mother’s injuries and death.
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