Nursing Home Neglect
Leading Nursing Home Neglect Attorneys Serving Clients Nationwide
Lack of qualified staff, overcrowding, and improper intake procedures are among the flaws in our country's nursing home system that expose vulnerable residents to unacceptable levels of risk to their health and their lives. At Scherffius, Ballard, Still & Ayres, LLP, we specialize in cases of catastrophic injury and wrongful death, including those that occur in nursing home and long-term care settings.
The list of wrongs done to the health and dignity of senior citizens as a result of nursing home neglect is long and frightening. Patients fall and no one helps them up. They suffer bone fractures, which may go untreated. They suffer dehydration, malnutrition, and starvation. They develop bed sores, decubitus ulcers, infections, and sometimes gangrene that requires amputation of a limb.
Medication errors cause loss of consciousness and death, or unnecessary endurance of pain. Patients may fall out of bed because of lack of properly installed railings. Inadequately trained staff members may drop patients in the process of transferring them to or from a wheelchair. Inadequate supervision may allow confused patients to leave the grounds unnoticed.
Our nursing home neglect attorneys believe that the large companies running most nursing homes today should be legally accountable for inadequate care. We have the litigation experience and the professional commitment to help family members of senior citizens injured in nursing homes file successful lawsuits. We prepare each case for trial. We consult with medical experts to help review the records and evaluate and prepare the case. We seek full and fair compensation for damages and losses.
If you have a family member in a nursing home and you suspect neglect or abuse, we invite you to contact our law office today. We can help.
From our office in Atlanta, Georgia, we represent clients throughout the southeastern United States and across the country.
Scherffius, Ballard, Still & Ayres, LLP, Attorneys at Law Nursing Home Neglect Attorneys
