Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer California Blog

Where once nursing homes residents were restrained by leather bonds or cloth ties, many nursing home staff are now relying on chemicals to sedate and to control residents.

A May 2011 United States Department of Health and Human Services study by the Office of the Inspector General found that 305,000 (about 14%) nursing home residents had Medicare claims for atypical antipsychotic drugs. Of these, about 1 in 5 residents were prescribed antipsychotics in a manner that violated government standards. For example, they may be given for too long a time or in too high a dose. More

As part of the Health Care Reform Bill (often called Obama Care), passed in March 2010, The Elder Justice Act requires long-term care facilities that received at least $10,000 in federal funds the previous year to self-report nursing home elder abuse. More