Nursing Home Neglect Cases
Placing a loved one in a nursing home represents one of the most significant acts of trust a family can make, built on the promise of compassionate, quality care and safety. Families rely implicitly on these facilities to uphold the resident’s health, dignity, and well-being.
Yet, this profound trust is far too often breached. Instances of neglect, mistreatment, and outright abuse occur in facilities that vowed protection, inflicting not only physical harm but also severe emotional trauma on both the resident and their family. When a facility tragically fails to uphold its duty of care, the resident’s dignity and safety are fundamentally compromised.
At Lloyd & Lloyd, we recognize the severity of this betrayal. Our nursing home abuse attorneys are wholly committed to holding these facilities accountable, offering compassionate legal support and the experienced advocacy necessary to seek justice and help restore your family’s peace of mind.
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When can you sue a nursing home for negligence or abuse?
Despite promises by nursing homes to care proper care of its residents, family members might notice indications of a deterioration in care. The nursing home might not be answering a call light quickly enough. The nursing home staff might not be keeping a resident clean, or they might be letting a resident stay in the same position in bed for too long, resulting in skin ulcers.
What can seem at the time like minor lapses of care can be indications of something far more serious. There could be an issue with understaffing, or the nursing home management might not have properly trained the nurses and staff to plan and care for each resident professionally and adequately. Few people are as helpless as those confined to live in a nursing home.
If the nursing home does not have adequate staff, the residents will suffer with the following:
What can I do if I think my loved one is being abused or neglected?
The first thing you should do is talk to your loved one. However, be aware that sometimes abuse victims deny the abuse for fear of the repercussions from the abuser.
If you still have concerns after talking to your loved one, refer to these resources and contact the proper authorities:
- File a complaint directly to the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s Long Term Care Service here (near the bottom of the page, above the Contact Information).
- File a complaint directly to the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services here.
- The Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative provides resources specifically for Oklahoma.
- The National Center for Victims of Crime’s Financial Crime Resource Center can help with identity theft and other financial crimes.
- FINRA has a Securities Helpline for Seniors with investment or brokerage accounts.
- Call Lloyd & Lloyd directly at 918-246-0200 or contact us here and let us help you get the justice your loved one deserves.
Nursing home abuse isn’t just one thing; it shows up in many dangerous ways. Often, nursing homes fail to give residents even basic care, like helping them with hygiene or providing the right food. Small mistakes often get worse, leading to serious problems like not turning bed-bound patients, which causes painful bedsores and ulcers.
Sometimes, they simply fail to prevent a patient from falling and getting seriously hurt. They often don’t even create a safe, personalized care plan for each person.
Oklahoma has strong laws, including a Resident’s Bill of Rights, to control the nursing home industry. However, facilities often choose to ignore these rules.
Lloyd & Lloyd has years of experience helping victims and families get money for nursing home abuse and neglect. In fact, we won an important case at the Oklahoma Supreme Court. This victory established a rule that the owners and shareholders of nursing homes—who often make millions—can be held personally responsible when they try to save money by dropping insurance coverage for the nursing home.
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If you have been injured due to the fault of others, contact Lloyd & Lloyd. Our record of success in the courtroom and in the courts of appeal, combined with our commitment to giving personal service, enable us to provide exceptional legal representation. You can fill out an online case review form by clicking here, or by calling us at 918.417.6580.