Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

The chairman of the United States Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development has recommended that the group issue regulations limiting long-term care facility inspections.

Chairman Tom Latham (R-IA) believes that “inspections for facilities can be ‘duplicative with state and local health and safety codes and at times even contradictory’ under the National Housing Act,” according to one article. More

In an illegal, but growing, new trend, nursing home residents are returning from emergency hospital stays only to find that they are denied re-admittance into their long-term care nursing home facility.

Left homeless, many are then forced to seek attorney representation and wait in the hospital until a new placement can be found. This often has devastating effects on the elderly person’s physical and mental health.

Residents dependent on Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California), are particularly vulnerable to eviction. Medicaid (or Medi-Cal) pay nursing homes as little as half the amount of money that a long-term care facility gets from private insurance or Medicare or from residents who pay out-of-pocket. Those long-term care facilities that put profits over people, look for reasons to evict lower paying residents. More

Theft in nursing homes is always a concern, but a band of burglars has taken it to a new level, hitting long-term care facilities in six states.

An organized gang of thieves – believed to be all male – dress as female nurses and walk into nursing homes when residents are typically out of their rooms, such as during dinner. The “nurses” hit residents’ rooms, taking credit cards.

So far the thieves have hit hundreds of nursing home residents. Typically charging purchases at such stores as Wal-Mart and Kmart, police estimate these fraudulent purchases to be anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000. More