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Throughout Birmingham, Homewood, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills, seniors and their family members rely on nursing home ratings to help them to determine whether a particular nursing home provides quality care. Many seniors need to live in a nursing facility as they age, and choosing the right facility is essential. A nursing home abuse lawyer...

Nursing home and assisted living facility residents in Birmingham, the suburbs of Homewood, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills and surrounding locations are all potentially at risk of becoming victims of nursing home abuse. Some patients, however, are more vulnerable than others. A nursing home abuse attorney knows that patients who cannot speak up for themselves...

Many Alabamans living in Birmingham, Homewood, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills and surrounding communities might not realize that nursing homes can be dangerous places. In fact, one out of every three nursing home residents who receive treatment suffers injuries, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report on adverse events in nursing homes. A report by...

Families for Better Care produces a nursing home report card each year for all of the states in the United States.  Families for Better Care obtains data from Kaiser Health Foundation, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare, and the Offices of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The state then assesses several key...

The problems of overmedication of seniors have recently been discussed on this blog. Overmedication can have deadly consequences, but an experienced nursing home abuse lawyer knows that chemical restraints using antipsychotic medications are not the only danger that nursing home residents face. A failure to get the medications that have been prescribed is also another...

In Birmingham, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills and surrounding locations, senior citizens live in nursing home care facilities where they depend upon staff members to provide adequate care. It is especially common for people with dementia to live in a nursing home setting once these individuals are no longer able to take care of themselves....

In July 2003, a senior lost her life five weeks after she was removed from a nursing home. The senior had suffered continual neglect that resulted in malnutrition and bedsores. She had also sustained head injuries in a fall. Her care was so egregious that a jury awarded the victim's family a damage award of...

An underride accident occurs when a car slides underneath the body of a truck. These types of devastating truck collisions can leave victims severely disfigured or paralyzed. Brain injury, broken spines, amputation and death are common when underride accidents occur. A truck accident lawyer knows that underride guards are intended to prevent these serious accidents...