The Tampa nursing home injury attorneys of Nursing Home Law Center LLC believe it is an atrocity for nursing chains to understaff their facilities so severely that the patients depending on them for treatment are not afforded the least in quality of care or respect. Pressure ulcers are extremely preventable, noticeable and treatable when addressed in a timely manner. There is no acceptable reason for allowing patients to endure agonizing pain while their ulcers continue to fester due to the inability of staff members to take the time to deliver preventative care. We are prepared to fight on your loved one’s behalf to make these wrongs right.
Like the other large cities throughout Florida, Tampa is growing at a steady and rapid pace, having added almost 35,000 residents in the last five years for a total of 369,000. Senior citizens comprise 11% of the population and estimates suggest this portion will grow over the next decade as Baby Boomers continue to age. There is a strong need for senior services and assistance programs.
Those who are over the age of 50 can participate in numerous programs tailored to their needs through the David Barkdale Active Adult Center. The center organizes classes and events specifically for the aging, which include exercise programs, aquatics, social events, group trips and educational courses. To learn more, you can visit tampagov.net.
There are 68 nursing homes serving the Tampa area and the quality of care provided can vary greatly between any two of them. Medicare only assigned five star ratings to ten facilities, but 30 more received four star grades. This still leaves plenty of facilities with serious deficiencies to worry about when determining where you are going to place a loved one in need of assistive care. Our Tampa pressure sore lawyers believe that the Medicare nursing home compare tool can simplify the process for you by allowing you to see and eliminate historically neglectful and abusive facilities from your list.
Using the tool can reveal crucial data about health inspection citations and fines so that you can tell whether the promises being made during a sales pitch are likely to actually be honored. For example, it only took us a few moments to see that the Excel Care Center was fined over $524,000 in 2015 and denied federal payments, which is bright red flag that should convince you to look elsewhere.
Visit Medicare’s website at medicare.gov for access to this informative tool.
Many people are fed the line that bedsores are bound to form when a patient suffers from limited mobility because there is little that can be done to prevent them. This claim is a complete exaggeration used by neglectful nursing homes to attempt to justify the inability of their staff members to make appropriate rounds to all their residents. The truth of the matter is that it only requires about five to ten minutes of preventative care every several hours to both prevent and treat minor pressure sores.
The reason pressure ulcers continue to become worse and eventually form open wounds is that caregivers have neglected to check in with the patients. An advanced stage sore is impossible to miss as it causes excruciating pain and is clearly visible to the eye. In many cases, the patient is denied any care until the wound becomes infected and he or she requires hospitalization.
Nursing Home Law Center LLC is a leading prosecutor of nursing home neglect cases and our Tampa bedsore injury attorneys have helped thousands of clients recover the compensation needed to help make things right after being injured due to neglect. If your loved one has been mistreated or neglected, we would like to hear more about your case during a free case review where we can discuss your legal options and strategies. Contact us today! Should we be unable to help you secure compensation, our services will be free of charge.
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If you are looking for an attorney to assist with the investigation or prosecution of a Tampa nursing home abuse case involving bed sores or other injury visit the pages below:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
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