More than eight million Americans currently receive long and short-term care services in nursing facilities, adult day care centers, assisted-living homes, and hospices nationwide. For-profit corporations run nearly all the facilities providing nursing care in the United States. Often, their business plan means the company entrusts the staff to provide nurturing health and hygiene care to our most vulnerable. Unfortunately, the corporation’s stockholders want assurance that profits are placed ahead of the residents’ needs. In recent years, the Hagerstown nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center LLC have seen a significant shift in the escalating number of civil cases involving mistreatment, neglect, and abuse throughout Maryland.
Medicare releases publicly available information every month on all nursing homes in Hagerstown based on the data gathered through inspections, investigations, and surveys. Currently, the database shows that inspectors identified serious violations and deficiencies at 44% (seven facilities) of the sixteen Hagerstown nursing homes that resulted in severe harm and wrongful death of residents. If your loved one was injured, abused, mistreated, or died unexpectedly from neglect while living in a nursing facility in Maryland, you have the legal right to ensure justice. We urge you to contact the Hagerstown nursing home abuse & neglect lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center (800-926-7565) today to schedule a free, no-obligation case review to discuss a financial compensation lawsuit.
Nearly 150,000 individuals reside in Hagerstown and Washington County, including more than 21,000 senior citizens. The limited number of nursing facilities and the high percentage of the elderly population in the community has placed a severe demand on the number of beds required to meet the needs of the disabled, rehabilitating, and aging. Sadly, abuse, neglect, and mistreatment are usually the results of overworked nursing staff in a crowded environment.
Many overcrowded and understaffed nursing homes provide substandard care. Because of that, our Maryland elder abuse attorneys have stood tall as advocates for victimized nursing home residents statewide. We continually review, assess, and evaluate publicly available information outlining health concerns, opened investigations, and filed complaints against nursing homes gathered from national databases, including Medicare.gov.
Our Washington County nursing home neglect attorneys have posted the list below detailing facilities throughout the Hagerstown area currently maintaining below standard ratings compared to other homes nationwide. Also, we have added our primary concerns by specifying cases involving understaffing, medical oversights, reduced services, abuse, neglect, and healthcare fraud.
Our attorneys have compiled data from settlements and jury verdicts across Maryland to give you an idea as to how cases are valued. Learn more about the cases linked below:
Overall Rating of 16 Nursing Homes
January 2010
We recognize any failure to follow protocols when providing care and services could place the health and well-being of the resident in Immediate Jeopardy. The deficient practice of the nursing staff directly violates federal and state guidelines and regulations and fails to follow the established protocols and procedures adopted by the facility.
The federal government reports that more than 9000 incidences of documented abuse occurred in nursing homes nationwide within the last two years. These violations resulted in more than one out of every three nursing facilities cited for severe problems. These reports indicate that a lack of quality care has caused significant harm or injury to the residents in various ways, including:
In many of those cases, the nursing home resident suffered actual harm at a level of seriousness that caused them immediate jeopardy, leading to a worsening condition or death.
The experienced Hagerstown nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center LLC remain dedicated to serving as advocates. Our legal team of affiliates has the necessary resources to hold those responsible for causing harm legally and financially accountable. We have handled cases involving nursing home mistreatment throughout Washington County for years.
We urge you to contact our northern Maryland nursing home neglect law offices now at (800) 926-7565 to schedule your free, no-obligation full case evaluation. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
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Attorney Joe Musso
Licensed in Maryland
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