Nursing Home Liability and Elder Abuse

While many nursing homes provide excellent care for our most vulnerable Georgians, many take advantage of their helpless residents. By putting their own profits ahead of taking care of their patients, those nursing homes may be understaffed, using unqualified staff, or simply failing to ensure that their patients are properly cared for. This can result in a patient suffering a pressure ulcer or bedsore because they were not turned appropriately, or a fall that occurred because the patient was not given the right assistance, or any other of the number of things that can go wrong in a nursing home. The federal and state regulations that govern nursing homes are complex, but we can help.  

Just like a doctor or hospital, a nursing home accepts a certain level of responsibility when accepting new residents, and it owes those residents a “duty of care.” The nursing home has a responsibility to provide its residents with a level of reasonable care to protect residents and provide them with a safe environment - this is what they get paid to do. So, when a nursing home fails to provide this level of reasonable care and one of its residents is hurt or dies, it should be held accountable.