Nursing home abuse is more common than people think. It can come in the form of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and financial abuse. Both staff and other nursing home residents can be the abusers. The most recent data from The National Center...
Oklahoma ranks in the bottom 5 of all states in Medicare rating system for nursing homes in United States An exhaustive study recently released by the Kaiser Family Foundation compared the rankings of nursing homes nationwide.The Study analyzed the Medicare (CMS)...
One of the favorite tactics that nursing homes use is to insert arbitration clauses into the admission contracts. Then, when a resident is injured or killed by the nursing home’s abuse, the nursing home’s lawyers argue that the family cannot go to Court to seek...
In 2015, the Oklahoma legislature is considering making significant changes in the law, changes that would affect nursing home residents statewide. Some of the important bills are: HB 1435: This bill would require Nurse Aides to keep their addresses on file...