Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer California Blog

Beginning Jan. 1, 2012, a new California state law will allow California counties to offer a confidential internet system for reporting elder abuse in long-term care facilities.

Currently, those who work in financial institutions, law enforcement and in healthcare, including nursing home staff, are required by law to report suspicions of elder abuse in a “timely manner.” In many counties there can be a long wait before a call is answered due to staff cuts and a high volume of callers. More

Newly proposed legislation could soon allow nurses in nursing homes to administer controlled substance painkillers to residents when acting on a physician’s verbal orders.

The legislation comes despite increasing numbers of nursing home residents who have been killed because of poorly administered, or over-administered, painkillers. More

A new study has found that staff in nursing homes can dramatically reduce the risk of a deadly flu outbreak in the facility by getting flu shots.

Confirming previous studies and guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Oklahoma study found that when between 51 and 75 percent of direct caregivers are vaccinated against the flu, the odds of a flu outbreak in that facility decreased by a dramatic 87 percent. More

You – or your legal representative – have the right to review your medical records whenever you wish.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPPA, was passed to protect all of us. It ensures that our medical records stay between us and our medical providers unless we give written permission for someone else to see them. HIPPA is designed to give us control over our medical records. More

It is a horrifying fact that more than 31 percent of nursing home residents suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, according to a 2000 study by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform.

This means that the possibility of your loved one suffering from malnutrition and dehydration while in a nursing home rivals that of people struggling to survive in the Third World. More