For many people, discovering that a loved one is being neglected while under the care of a nursing facility is a nightmare come to reality. The Fort Collins nursing home attorneys of Nursing Home Law Center LLC advocate on behalf of the victims whose advanced stage pressure ulcers resulted from the inability or refusal of caregivers to provide very simple preventative care. In reality, there are very few advanced stage pressure sore cases we’ve encountered that couldn’t have been prevented through the reasonable measures that everyone expects their care centers to provide. When patients are neglected due to under-staffing, we do everything in our power to bring those responsible to justice.
From 2010 to 2015, Fort Collins grew from a population of just over 144,000 to over 161,000, representing an expansion of almost 12%. Senior citizens comprise nearly 9% of the total population and current expectations suggest that many more residents will surpass the age of 65 over the next decade. This will undoubtedly increase the demand for important senior programs and assistive services that may be able to keep aging residents out of nursing homes by helping them maintain their independence.
The Fort Collins Senior Center offers seniors the opportunity to explore new interests, socialize with their peers and participate in activities that will keep them active and healthy. Some of the programs offered include an aqua fitness course, educational courses and workshops, dance classes, arts and crafts, outdoor recreational events and trips to local attractions or long distance travel opportunities. To learn more, you can visit this website.
There are 16 nursing homes serving Fort Collins, and while eight of them have received excellent ratings from Medicare, there is just as much opportunity to encounter facilities with deficiencies when conducting your search. You cannot normally glean which homes have histories of delivering subpar care through interviews with intake staff, which is why you need a trusted resource to disseminate between trusted and troubled facilities.
Our Fort Collins pressure sore lawyers suggest using the Medicare nursing home compare tool found at medicare.gov. This tool will give you the most recent Medicare ratings for all of the homes in the area and will allow you to see whether the care center you are considering has been fined or penalized, failed health and safety inspections or received complaints due to understaffing or poor quality measures.
Most bedsores are treatable if they are detected during the first stage and treatment consists primarily of rotating the patient’s position every two or three hours and applying topical medication. The regular moving of patients from one side to another is also an effective preventative strategy that greatly reduces the chances patients will develop sores to begin with. This is because a pressure sore is the result of poor circulation arising from pressure on the joints and tissue death begins to occur after about three hours of oxygen deprivation.
Moving patients who are at risk of developing pressure ulcers restores circulation and prevents the tissue death that can gradually form an open wound over time. While minor bedsores are more common, the progression of those sores into severe ulcers is a clear indication that caregivers have neglected to monitor the patient’s status or to proactively look for evidence of sores when checking in with patients. The pain, unmistakable sight of the sores and the odor that accompanies them are all evidence that responsible caregivers wouldn’t overlook if they were able to provide the attention and basic level of care we have the right to demand for our loved ones.
Nursing Home Law Center LLC is fully prepared and able to prosecute your nursing neglect claim as we have for thousands of victims already. It is our undying mission to give a voice to those who suffer in silence and to promote change by sending a message to those nursing facilities which would place profit above people. Contact us today to schedule a free case evaluation with one of our award winning Fort Collins nursing home abuse attorneys so that we can review the details of your claim and determine the best path forward.
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