Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer California Blog

In a move to help families looking for nursing homes, the federal government has updated Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare ” website.

The “new” website revises the old one. Twenty-one new criteria, which help measure the quality of care at nursing homes across the country, are added. The new website allows the government to assess resident experiences in both long-term and short-term care facilities. More

In 2009 the federal government found that nearly 1/3 of all nursing homes in the United States had received citations for abusing and neglecting their residents.

According to the official report, the House Government Reform Committee conducted a search of all abuse violations recorded at nursing homes from 1999 to 2001.

It found that a total of 9,000 incidents of nursing home abuse were reported. More than 5,200 nursing homes receiving citations for abusing or neglecting their residents during that time. The government admits that its findings severely underestimate the incidence of abuse in nursing homes. More

It’s difficult to say that one type of elder abuse is more abhorrent than another. Yet when elder abuse takes the form of sexual abuse, it somehow seems worse than almost any other form of abuse perpetuated against an elderly person or a dependent adult.

Elder abuse attorney Stephen M. Garcia represented a woman over 100 years old who was repetitively raped by the manager of a long-term care facility in Riverside, Calif.

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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