Nursing Home Patient

In a Medicare and/or Medicaid-certified nursing home, as a resident you have certain protections and rights under state and federal law. These protections and rights can help ensure you receive the services and care you need.

As a nursing home patient, you have the right to make your own decisions, be informed, and entitled to private personal information. The nursing home is responsible to inform you of these rights; the nursing home needs to explain your rights in an understandable language and in writing.

They must explain in writing as well how you should behave, and while in the nursing home, what your responsibility is upon admittance. As well as during your stay, this must be achieved prior to the time of admittance. In writing, you must acknowledge that you received this pertinent information.

Federal law, at a minimum, stipulates that a nursing home must promote and protect the rights of each nursing home patient.

As a recipient of Medicare, you have guaranteed protections and rights. Your rights, in addition, as a resident in a nursing home include the following: free from neglect and abuse; free from discrimination; a notified representative; as a US citizen, exercise your rights; free from restraints; treated with respect; receiving proper medical care; manage your money; spend time with visitors; participate in or implement resident groups; participate in activities; have protections against involuntary discharge or transfer; receive proper living, privacy, and property arrangements; receive information on fees and services; and make complaints.

Residents in a nursing home and their loved ones should know of the risks of pressure sores, and identify the indications of a likely injury.


You may not have the ability to prevent pressure sores, but knowing when to ask for help can be crucial to securing your health, and obtaining financial assistance quickly for your medical costs and other losses.

Several of the early symptoms and indications of bedsores include: when touched, skin does not blanch; discoloration of skin; pain and tenderness in area affected; unusual softness or firmness in affected skin area ( with skin feeling cooler or warmer than surrounding area); pink or red wounds, which may resemble blisters; and when pressure sores are not treated, the conditions of the patient can rapidly deteriorate.

Personal injury attorneys in these type of cases see thousands of sustained injuries every year of all types.

Truthfully, however, pressure sores as a result of nursing home negligence or abuse can be equally upsetting for an attorney as it is for the patient and loved ones.

These excruciating and life-threatening injuries, in the majority of cases, are preventable. However, numerous residents sustain these bed sores merely due to mistreatment or apathy from the caregiver.

Attorneys are passionate to assist a nursing home patient, who is also a victim of abuse and negligence, to fight to recover damages.

Attorneys represent regularly residents in a nursing home and loved ones in cases involving pressure sores in relation to improper case.

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