Elder Law Blog

Bedsores are preventable. There is never an excuse for a nursing home resident to suffer from bedsores. Yet it happens daily and all across the United States. In fact, the numbers may shock you.
Bedsore injuries can take months to heal, involve tremendous (and needless) pain and suffering and...

On March 9th, prior to when most lockdowns began, 129 people affiliated with the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington were infected with coronavirus. 81 of those folks were residents. Ultimately, dozens would die.
Unofficial tallies show that 101 veterans perished at the Menlo Park...

The Medicare fraud and nursing home neglect lawyers at Mahany Law have combined forces to investigate claims of both poor patient care and billing fraud at the Garden Valley Healthcare Center in Kansas City, Missouri. We are looking to speak with would be whistleblowers (present or former...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that one in ten nursing home patients will develop a bedsore. That is a terrible statistic considering bedsores are 100% preventable given proper care.
A national nursing home patient survey conducted several years ago...

Mahany Law Launches Investigation of Genesis HealthCare Westfield Center Less than three years ago, Genesis Healthcare agreed to pay the Justice Department a record $53 million to settle charges that the company committed Medicare fraud by providing “medically unnecessary therapy and hospice...

As lawyers that sue nursing homes, we are always looking for facilities with plagued with abuse, neglect, falls, bedsores and lately, outbreaks of deadly Candida auris. Usually when we find a nursing home with such serious problems we quickly learn they have a terrible history with the Centers for...

There are approximately 1300 nursing homes in Texas. Nearly a quarter of those homes have serious deficiencies. There are so many that we can’t put them all on one blog post. What we can do is give you our bottom five list.
Most of the facilities on this list has been designated as a...

The elder law attorneys at Mahany Law are investigating a claim that a patient developed a Stage 3 bedsore while a patient at Flushing Hospital. With today’s advances in medicine, there is absolutely no reason for a patient to develop of a bedsore while hospitalized. This is especially true...

Lila Hazemann, 80, suffered from dementia and was living at the Lilac Homes, an assisted living facility in Moorhead, Minnesota. She had been there just two months when her daughter, Trish Olson, received an emergency call saying her mom had been rushed to the hospital for what was deemed a...