If you are looking for an Arizona nursing home abuse lawyer, you need an attorney with many years of experience handling elder abuse suits. You need a lawyer who has handled all types of nursing home abuse cases involving seniors in elder care facilities who have dealt with abuse they should not have to deal with.
Our nursing home lawyers’ objective is not simply to recover damages for nursing home residents who’ve been mistreated, but also to stop Arizona nursing homes from engaging or allowing that kind of abuse to take place on their facilities.
If your spouse, father, mother, or loved one has been abused at a nursing home in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tucson, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Glendale or anywhere else in Arizona, please fill out our free case review form to view how our nursing home abuse lawyers might have the ability to assess your claim and find out whether you’re are eligible to file a lawsuit against the nursing home.
If we can prove that the nursing care employees and the nursing home have behaved negligently, we will win your case and seek to recover as much money as possible for the pain and suffering they have caused to you and your loved one.
Reasons for Filing a Nursing Home Lawsuit
These may be several reasons for filing a nursing home abuse lawsuit in Arizona, including:
Negligent Hiring: Nursing homes have a responsibility to residents who stay there to employ personnel that are properly qualified to work there and have the necessary skills to take care of elderly patients. Additionally, they should not be employing those people who have a history of violence or abuse. Running proper background checks is critical, yet not all nursing home facilities do it. When a nursing home hires a person and that person is the reason your loved one has died or has been harmed, the nursing home should be held accountable. The best nursing home abuse lawyers will investigate the facility and it’s hiring practices to help you win your lawsuit.
Understaffing the nursing home: According to the CDC, proper staffing at a nursing home is 1 staff member to each 1.64 inhabitants. It is highly common for a nursing home facility to try and cut expenses by not having enough staff to properly take care of patients. Our Arizona legal team will investigate and find out if this contributed to the harm caused to your loved one.
Improper training : If a nursing home fails to properly train its employees, and as a result a patient of the facility is injured or killed, this liability can be placed on the nursing home. Our lawyers will investigate and see if poor training led to the injuries of your loved one.
Third-Party Claims: Arizona nursing homes who hire another third party are responsible for the actions of the third party and may be held liable. For example, if a nursing home hires a cleaning crew to clean the facility and a member of the cleaning crew assaults a patient, the nursing home could be held accountable for the harm caused by the 3rd party. Our lawyers will investigate to find out if the actions of a 3rd party was the reason the patient was harmed.
Medication errors: Giving the wrong medications, giving too much medication or not enough medicine are all medication errors that can lead to a patients death or serious injury. Taking the proper medication at the write dosage is a matter of life and death for many elderly patients. In the event the resident is injured by a prescription medication error, pharmacist, pharmacy, or the doctor could be held liable. Our Arizona law firm will find investigate to find out if medication was properly given to your loved one.
Sexual Abuse of Nursing Home Residents: The last thing an elderly patient should have to endure at a nursing home facility is sexual abuse, yet it happens across nursing homes all over the nation. Whether another patient is responsible, a 3rd party, a guest or an employee, the nursing home facility owes patients a duty of care and it’s their responsibility to ensure this does not happen to a patient at their facility. If this happened to your spouse or family member, our nursing home abuse lawyers will aggressively pursue the facility to try and do everything we can to win your case.
Emotional Abuse of Nursing Home Residents: Emotional abuse at a nursing home might refer to isolation, sarcastic comments, insults or verbally abusing the nursing home resident. It can also be manipulation of the elderly person. As an example, a nursing home resident may be afraid just to request a glass of water or some food out of fear that they will be punished or harmed. This could lead to malnourishment or dehydration. Nobody wants their family to have to deal with living like this. Our Arizona nursing home lawyers will investigate and find out if this is an issue in the nursing home.
Financial Abuse: Many people try to take advantage of the elderly when it comes to finances and this is no exception in nursing homes. If your loved one was tricked or manipulated into giving away their finances, our lawyers can help.
Neglect: Nursing home neglect is common in Arizona. There are many types of neglect that can occur. Examples include:
- failure to help with personal hygiene such as showers
- failure to give proper food
- failure to give proper clothing
- failure to provide medical care when necessary
- failure to deal with safety and health dangers
- failure to admit psychiatric conditions
- failure to properly turn a patient who is bedridden (this can lead to bedsores)
It’s important to understand that man nursing home residents are embarrassed to come forward and inform anybody of the hardships they’re experiencing. It is extremely important to check in with the loved one to find out if everything is ok. If you suspect someone is being mistreated at a nursing home, call our elder abuse attorneys in Arizona today.
Contact our nursing home abuse law firm today
Our Arizona nursing home abuse attorneys take great pride in being trial attorneys that aren’t afraid of anyone, no matter how much money or big their legal team is. We are highly confident that we can win and we want to represent you and your family. Our lawyers have access to a team of nursing home abuse medical experts that will testify in court if needed to help us win your case. This testimony plays a very important part to winning a nursing home abuse lawsuit and getting as much money as possible for you and your family.
If you suspect that your loved one has been mistreated or neglected in a nursing home, contact our nursing home attorneys today for a free appointment. No matter where you are in Arizona, we can help! We handle all nursing home abuse lawsuits on a contingency fee basis, which means you do not have to pay us anything unless we win your case.