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If you trusted a Florida nursing home to care for your loved one during a time of need and that person was injured or killed as a result of negligence, it is confusing and often maddening how such a vulnerable person can be mistreated so badly. Though you relied on a nursing home to do the right thing by providing proper care for your loved one, many Florida nursing homes in Daytona Beach, Deltona and Deland and other cities fail to provide adequate care. Nursing homes' corporate headquarters often save money by understaffing nursing homes and not providing adequate supplies, but without adequate staff and supplies, care is poor. This often leads to bed sores, decuibtis ulcers, falls causing broken hips, and a decline in health or even death from malnutrition, dehydration or infection. Unfortunately, injuries can occur in many ways when relying on a nursing home or assisted living facility to care for an elderly or disabled relative, trusting a nursing home to ensure that your loved one is turned and repositioned properly to avoid bed sore or requiring nursing home help when a loved one is at risk for falling.

Our elderly have legal rights. If you must suddenly confront the reality that your loved one has been harmed at a nursing home, assisted living facility or adult family care home, you should know you have help. You might not need a lawyer, but you do need to get all the facts. Before you make a decision, be sure to read our free book: The Five Things Nursing Homes Do To Cause Needless Suffering: Proven Ways to Protect Your Loved One
 
After that, if you want to move forward, Zimmet & Quarles is there to answer your questions in a free consultation, with no obligations. Get the valuable information you need.

Nursing Home Malpractice


Florida has gained an international reputation as a popular retirement destination. As of 2007, statistics showed that the Sunshine State had more than 600 registered nursing homes, serving almost 70,000 elderly and disabled residents. Unfortunately, this crush of numbers means many homes are overpopulated and understaffed. At times, the nurses and CNAs that are employed at nursing homes and assisted living facilities haven't been properly trained or are unable to keep up with the workload imposed on them. It's a situation that can translate to unsafe living conditions for patients.

It's important to know that you have rights and, if you need to be protected, you should be protected by the law firm that is right for your case.

Common incidents in nursing malpractice include:
 
In 2007, a study by an independent agency found that 97 percent of the nursing homes in Florida showed some deficiencies in the care they provided. While some of the issues were insignificant, others were more severe.

Common problems sited in FL nursing homes:
  • Accident-prone environment
  • Improper food sanitation
  • Inadequate quality of care
  • Insufficient professional standards
  • No comprehensive care plan
  • Unsatisfactory housekeeping
  • Disregard of incontinence
  • Neglect leading to pressure sores (bed sores)
  • Proscribing unnecessary drugs
  • Deficient infection control
 
While far less common, physical, sexual and/or mental abuses do occur in nursing homes and assisted living facilities and are extremely serious offenses that require immediate action.

If you're considering entering a loved one into a Florida nursing home, be sure to consider the Medicare checklist for proper care and consult the state's assisted living facility watch list. If you already know or suspect that you or someone else is a victim of nursing malpractice, consult our free book to get the facts you need to proceed.

Contact us to discuss your case. Your questions answered, your options explained.

Zimmet & Quarles is located in Daytona Beach, FL and serves clients from Orlando to Jacksonville.

Cities: Daytona Beach, Orlando, Jacksonville, Deltona, Palm Coast, New Smyrna Beach, Orange City, Flagler Beach, Sanford, Ormond Beach, Port Orange.

Counties: Volusia, Orange, Duval, Seminole, Flagler.
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  • 3 Dangerous Nursing Home Practices   
    Description: A recent newspaper article about a Wisconsin nursing home points out the dangers that exist in nursing homes throughout the country and in Florida. The Wisconsin nursing home was cited for extensive violations of the state and federal regulations related to quality of care.
  • Bishop's Glenn Retirement Center Quality of Care Ratings   
    Description: Low ratings for Daytona Beach nursing home facility. Learn what this means.
  • Stay Away From Nursing Homes On The Watch List   
    Description: Know whether the nursing home you are considering is on a watch list.
  • Police Investigate Ridgecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center   
  • Protecting your family from falls at nursing homes. Do nurses pretend falls don't happen at nursing homes?   
    Description: Strategies to prevent falls in nursing homes to protect your family.
  • Florida standard living will form can harm your quality of life   
    Description: Three examples of how the Florida standard living will form can harm your quality of life
  • Preventing Falls   
    Description: The nurse should look at a number of factors to determine what that risk is. We suggest that you talk carefully and fully with the nurse about what those factors are so that you can make sure that the things which need to be done to prevent falls are actually being done.
  • Pain Management   
    Description: It’s important for the nurses to evaluate the response that you have to any type of pain medication or any other type of pain relief strategy.
  • How to Prevent Bed Sores   
    Description: Nursing staff should look at the patient’s skin every day. If there are places on your skin that are red, that is a sign that a bedsore could be developing. If there is a red area on your skin, find out what that red area is, what caused it and then do something about it.
  • Bedsores   
    Description: What happens when people develop bedsores is that pressure on the skin depresses the capillary and makes it impossible for the blood to flow through. That means that the oxygen doesn’t go through the capillary, the skin doesn’t get the oxygen it needs and the skin tissue dies.
  • C-Diff Infection Causes Death   
    Description: When people in Central Florida seek medical help at a hospital, walk-in clinic or nursing home, they put their trust in trained professionals to treat them honestly and fairly during times of need. While the vast majority receives proper care, some must ultimately face the reality they’ve been mistreated or neglected. If you suspect that you or a loved one is a victim of nursing or medical malpractice, you need to get the facts. Review the information in our free book available at this site. If you decide you need a lawyer, the Law Office of Zimmet & Quarles will provide you a free, no obligation consultation to discuss your options.

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    Description: The Florida Nursing Home Watch List is published by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and a copy of the guide and the quarterly watch list are available by calling 888-4193456 or at the AHCA web site where the Guide to Florida Nursing Homes in Florida may also be accessed.

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