Lexington Nursing Home Negligence: A Helping Hand From Lawyers Who Care
You love your parents and elderly family members, and you want what is best for them. When you entrusted a nursing home or assisted living facility with their care, you were confident they would provide the personal attention and compassionate care your loved one deserves. If they failed to maintain that trust, you need the help of an experienced elder abuse lawyer.
At the law office of O’Brien Batten Kirtley & Coomer, PLLC, a Lexington, Kentucky, personal injury law firm, we are committed to achieving justice for the victims of nursing home negligence and will provide you with the aggressive representation you need to seek the compensation you deserve.
Aggressive Representation For Kentucky Nursing Home Negligence Victims
We represent individuals and their families in cases involving a broad range of nursing home negligence claims, including those involving:
- Bedsores: Everyone in an extended hospital stay has to receive regular treatment to avoid getting a bed sore, which can become infected, leading to even more serious conditions.
- Malnutrition and dehydration: The first duty of a nursing home is to provide regular care, including feeding their patients. Malnutrition and dehydration are unacceptable failures and demand legal action.
- Falls: Most people in a nursing home have ambulatory problems, and if they are left unattended, will hurt themselves. Letting a patient fall due to inattention will lead to head injuries, bleeding or any number of other injuries.
- Lack of cleanliness and hygiene: Irregular cleaning and care for a patient in a nursing home is a recipe for germs and infections, which further creates suffering and difficulties for patients.
- Medication errors: A medication mistake can happen at the pharmacist, with them putting the wrong medication or dosage in a bottle. But in a nursing home there’s also a chance that they give patients the wrong medication entirely.
- Failure to seek proper medical evaluation and treatment: When a nursing home seeks to avoid responsibility, they will often try to bury accidents or mistakes they made by not seeking proper treatment. This is, of course, a damaging lapse.
- Improper use of restraints: Restraints in nursing homes are sometimes necessary for patients with severe dementia. However, those times are rare, and the liberal use of restraints is a form of abuse.
We also handle instances when a professional health care worker uses physical or verbal violence against their patients, which is a sign of nursing home abuse.
Straightforward, Experienced Legal Advice For Loved Ones Concerned About Nursing Home Care
Our experienced Louisville, Kentucky, personal injury lawyers understand the laws and regulations that govern nursing home care and frequently handle cases involving neglect of innocent residents of these facilities. We get to know our clients and their families personally, giving them the attention and respect that they deserve. Throughout the entire case you can depend on our team to provide straightforward advice and to be available to answer any questions, including those below.
How Common Is Nursing Home Neglect In Kentucky?
Nursing home neglect is not extremely common, but it’s also not unheard of in Kentucky. It’s always challenging to describe something like neglect of elders as common or not. However, many nursing facilities are likely guilty of some form of neglect when it comes to caring for their patients. That neglect isn’t always caught, and it isn’t always detectable. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
What Compensation Can Be Recovered For Victims And Their Families?
Compensation for nursing home neglect victims can range from actual damages, including medical care and long term care to punitive damages and other noneconomic damages. According to some sources, the average amount of money recovered in one of these cases can be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What Do You Do If You Suspect Your Loved One Is Being Neglected?
Talk to us. As attorneys, we have the experience and know-how to begin gathering the facts of a case. Even if there is no neglect, a letter from a member of a law firm can greatly reduce any obstacles to getting information from a facility. In most cases, however, if you have reason to believe there has been some neglect, there likely has been, and we’ll be there to fight for you.
There Is No Excuse For Negligence
While there are some negligence cases that result from nursing home employees who simply don’t care about their residents, many are caused by poor staff communication, short staffing or incompetence. At the law office of O’Brien Batten Kirtley & Coomer, PLLC, we firmly believe that there is no excuse for nursing home neglect. We will fight to help protect your loved ones and to recover the compensation they need for medical bills, future care and for their pain and suffering.
Contact A Kentucky Elder Patient Neglect Attorney Today
To schedule a free initial consultation with an experienced Lexington nursing home negligence attorney, contact the law office of O’Brien Batten Kirtley & Coomer, PLLC, at 859-554-4727.