According to U.S. statistics, approximately 15,000 victims fall prey to nursing home abuse and negligence resulting in wrongful death every year.
Common causes of wrongful death in a nursing home or other elderly facility include:
- Dehydration;
- Equipment Malfunction;
- Falls and Fractures;
- Infected Bedsores;
- Infectious Diseases;
- Malnutrition;
- Medical Device Malfunction;
- Medical Malpractice;
- Murder;
- Neglect and Abandonment;
- Nursing Home Malpractice;
- Physical Abuse;
- Prescription Drug Error;
- Repeated Abuse;
- Standard of Care Violations;
- Strangulation Due to Unnecessary Restraining;
- Suicide Due to Repeated Abuse and Neglect;
- Unsupervised Elopement and Wandering;
- Violence.
The most common contributors to causes of nursing home negligence include:
- Failure to hire sufficient staff to care for its resident patients;
- Failure to train staff and employees in the proper care of its resident patients;
- Failure to adequately provide resources in order to provide basic standard of care services for its resident patients;
- Failure to properly monitor and supervise resident patients, staff and employees.
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