Nursing Home Bedsores Are Not Caused by Old Age. They Are Entirely Preventable.
When a nursing home resident is immobile, they need to be turned or repositioned at least every two hours, at a minimum. That is enough to keep them from developing something called pressure ulcers or bedsores, which are incredibly painful. Left untreated they can reach the bone and can cause life-threatening infection.
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Do Not Listen to Nursing Home Excuses
The only known risk factor for bedsores is diabetes — without this risk factor it is our position that bedsores and their life threatening consequences are entirely avoidable, but it is the nursing home's drive for profit that leads to neglect, including bedsores, contractures, malnutrition and dehydration and poor sanitation.
What happens in cases of nursing home negligence and neglect?
People who need to be frequently repositioned end up lying or sitting immobile or there is too much pressure applied to the body part that is in contact with the wheelchair or the bed. People who are immobile are often incontinent. If their protective pads are not changed often enough the lack of sanitation breaks down the skin even faster and leads to the development of bedsores. Entirely preventable pressure ulcers develop. These are just a few of the ways that our loved ones can be harmed in nursing homes.
See our Nursing Home Injuries Practice Center.
Passionate, Persistent Pursuit of Justice
Our lawyer will diligently investigate matters. In a recent case we successfully resolved for our client: a pressure ulcer started underneath the skin on an elderly nursing home patient. It was not charted and went "undiscovered" until the elderly resident entered into a hospital. Even though the ulcer was not documented, we were able to prove that it had in fact formed at the nursing home and could have been prevented. Damages were won as a result.
We learn about issues such as:
- Did the staff check or change the person's diaper? How often?
- Did they move the person frequently?
- How did they treat the person once the bed sore became apparent?
- Were the pressure ulcers documented in the medical chart?
- Were proper care plans developed once the pressure ulcers or contractures formed?
- Were the charts "doctored" — was there a charting party?
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