Nursing Home Negligence
Deciding to place a loved one in a nursing home can result in extreme anxiety and feelings of guilt for families. The issues can further be exaggerated when you suspect that your loved one has been neglected or even abused in a nursing home. Numerous injuries and fatalities have resulted from instances of nursing home abuse, and statistics show that abuse and neglect has been on the rise in recent years.
Some signs of nursing home neglect or abuse can include:
- Unexplained and sudden changes in behavior of the resident
- Staff refusing to allow visitors to see resident or delays in allowing visitors to see the resident
- Unexplained bruises, cuts, burns, sprains or fractures in various stages of healing, bedsores or frozen joints
- Nursing home staff refusing to allow resident to be alone with you or other visitors
- Over-medication of the resident
- Loss of resident’s possessions
- Unexplained death of the resident
- Refusal on the part of the nursing home to provide important medical records upon request
If you feel your loved one has been a victim of nursing home abuse or neglect, call Hemmings & Stevens, P.L.L.C., for a free consultation and evaluation of your case. We represent individuals and families statewide in any city or county in the State of North Carolina.
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