The Nursing Home Complaint Center is calling its efforts to identify US nursing home patients, who needlessly get sepsis, septic shock, broken bones, and or victims of wrongful death, their number one priority in 2011. The group is saying, "we believe needless sepsis infections, septic shock, broken bones, wrongful death, and elder abuse in our nation's nursing homes are at epidemic levels, and we want to hear from family members who have proof the sick, or deceased family member was mistreated, or not treated at all-with the result being a wrongful death, or they are now in a ICU at a nearby hospital."
The group says, "one of the biggest problems we see in the vast majority of our nation's nursing homes is staffing levels, are not high enough to meet Medicare, or Medicaid standards, with the result being dead patients, or patients suffering from sepsis, or septic shock, due to medical malpractice, or broken bones."
If a family member, or loved one has died in a US nursing home from provable wrongful death, or now has sepsis, is in septic shock, or has broken bones, please call the Nursing Home Complaint Center at 866-714-6466, or contact the group via its web site: Nursing Home Complaint Center
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Nursing Home Complaint Center Makes Discovering Victims Of Sepsis Septic Shock Broken Bones & Wrongful Death Its Number One Priority For US Nursing Home Patients
These are very good resources. I actually found a blog about Illinois Nursing Home Abuse the other day, here:
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They have a couple blogs on this site that are very informative and current like the Elder Law blog.
Hooray! I am so glad to see anything positive in cleaning up nursing homes!
ReplyDeleteThank you, NASGA.
ReplyDeleteSepsis is a sign of neglect - dirty needles, etc. And we hear more and more about it all the time.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle died the day after he had a blood draw. He was recovering from a heart operation and then suddenly went down. I believe it was sepsis.
This group will provide accountability where there is none now.
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