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Worker Shortage Creates Staffing 'Apocalypse' for Nursing Homes

Nursing home residents deserve quality care regardless of staff levels. Since the pandemic's start, the nursing home industry has lost about 15 percent of its jobs. This situation puts residents at greater risk for nursing home abuse and neglect. Short staffing in nursing homes and assisted living facilities may lead to: Bedsores, also known as...

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Falls Are Often the Result of Nursing Home Negligence

When residents fall, severe injuries are common Nursing home residents can sustain serious injuries due to nursing home neglect. And one of the most common causes of injuries in nursing homes involves neglected residents falling and getting hurt. When this happens, victims and their families need to take action right away to protect their health...

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Nursing Homes Continue To Struggle With Staffing Shortages

"At some point...the system is going to fracture" Staffing shortages at nursing homes and assisted living facilities are becoming more and more common in Georgia and throughout the nation. According to a recent report by NPR, nursing facilities are currently experiencing "historic staffing shortages," which is something that creates an environment ripe for nursing home...

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Are Medicare's Nursing Home Ratings Trustworthy?

A Georgia Nursing Home Abuse Attorney Discusses the Care Compare Scandal A popular 5-star rating system that helps people choose nursing homes may be providing dangerously incomplete information. A nationwide investigation by The New York Times reveals thousands of incidents of physical and sexual nursing home abuse as well as incidents of catastrophic neglect that...

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Nursing Home Still Operating After 83 Covid Deaths

A Georgia Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Discusses In April 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, police acting on a tip found 17 bodies crowded into a very small morgue at one of the largest nursing homes in New Jersey. It was a horrifying discovery that led to an investigation, fines, and a...

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A Legal Victory for Families of COVID-19 Victims

A Decatur, Georgia nursing home negligence lawyer provides the details Families who have filed COVID-19 lawsuits against nursing home operators alleging negligence and wrongful deaths scored a major legal victory when a federal court ruled on Oct. 21 that a case can proceed against two New Jersey facilities. The ruling could open the doors for...

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What Happens if Nursing Homes Close Due to the Pandemic?

A nursing home abuse lawyer in Georgia explains Even before the pandemic hit in 2020, many nursing homes were struggling. Staffing shortages, rising costs, and a decline in occupancy led more than 550 facilities to close between June 2015 to June 2019. The coronavirus spread rapidly in nursing homes throughout the country, leaving more than...

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