Jury Finds Nursing Home Responsible For Alzheimer's Patients Injuries
After two hours of deliberations a Kentucky jury has awarded a former nursing home patient more than $1 million in damages for injuries she sustained while a patient at the facility. The nursing home negligence lawsuit alleged that Cambridge Place Nursing Home in Lexington, KY was negligent in looking after an Alzheimer's patient who managed to gain access to an equipment storage room without the knowledge of staff at the facility. Ultimately, the woman sustained multiple injuries as a result of a fall she sustained in the restricted area including: broken facial bones, bleeding in her brain and multiple...
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Nursing Home Spotlight: Addolorata Villa: Wheeling, Illinois
Even at nursing home facilities with relatively high Medicare ratings and low average number of health deficiencies, serious problems can still occur. Despite a three-star (average Medicare rating), Addolorata Villa (a nursing home located in Wheeling, Illinois with 91 certified beds) failed to provide proper care and services to an elderly female resident after a fall, which then required an ER visit for serious injuries. Addolorata received two stars for its health inspections for five health deficiencies over the past year. This is three less health deficiencies than the average number of health deficiencies for Illinois nursing homes and also three less...
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Falls In Nursing Homes Are A Serious Threat To The Safety Of Many Patients
Given the frequency (approximately 80+% of all nursing nursing home patients will experience a fall this coming year) with which nursing home falls occur, facilities must be on the lookout when it comes to implementing fall prevention techniques in order to improve patient safety. Too often, the prevention comes too late-- if at all. Here are our most popular fall-related entries over the past year: How Many Falls Is Enough To Impose Responsibility On Nursing Home? Falls are a common problem facing elderly people in and out of nursing homes. By some accounts, every elderly person in America will fall...
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Even Common Falls Put Elderly At Risk For Developing Subdural Hematomas
Frequently undiagnosed and under-appreciated, falls amongst the elderly can frequently result in brain bleeds or technically termed 'subdural hamatoas'. Because elderly are predisposed to developing subdural hamatomas, staff in nursing homes and hospitals need to be tuned into the symptoms and when to seek additional medical care. What is a subdural hematoma? A subdural hematoma is a type of intracranial bleeding (hemorrhage), caused by head injury. Subdural hematomas occur when blood vessels burst in the space between the brain and the outermost membrane that covers the brain (dura mater). The collection of blood forms a hematoma, which puts pressure...
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Fall From Bed Results In Death Of Newly Admitted Nursing Home Patient
I've noticed a trend amongst many nursing home negligence cases-- injuries occur at a disproportionately high rate within the initial admission period. The most reasonable explanation for the heightened rate of nursing home injuries in during the initial admission period is most likely related with both the facilities unfamiliarity with the patient and vice versa. Nonetheless, a facility that claims they were 'simply unfamiliar' with a patient is probably a poor defense if a negligence claim were pursued. Even before a care plan is developed, nursing homes must take reasonable steps to provide the highest feasible level of care for...
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Woman Dies From Brain Bleed Following Unsupervised Fall
Everyday nursing home residents fall. Much like a toddler learning to walk, some falls are unpreventable. Nursing home residents remain the highest risk for falling and getting injured compared with any other demographic. The most fall prone must be identified identified by the nursing home staff. Identification of individuals who are at 'high risk' for falling is only part of the solution. After reading this newspaper article of a Montana woman who fell four times during a 35 day stay at a nursing home, I was reminded of how important is is for nursing homes to have adequate fall protection...
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