Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Slama Legal Group has handled many, many nursing home cases all across the state of Oklahoma — from cases against nursing homes owned by individuals, to large corporations which own chains of nursing homes not only in Oklahoma but throughout the United States.
Sometimes the owners of the nursing homes are involved in geriatric medicine for all the right reasons. Sometimes, however, the owners are driven by greed. Owners can increase their profit margins by reducing staffing & resources.
This often results in poor care or outright neglect. Sometimes, it even results in mental or physical abuse. Here are a few examples of the types of nursing home cases we have handled:
Fall from nursing home bed, resulting in broken hip and death of patient
Fall resulting in death, after patient was left unattended in bathroom
Failure to provide medical care to patient, after finding patient on the floor, resulting in delay in providing treatment for broken hip
Failure to turn and reposition bedridden patient, resulting in decubitus ulcers (bedsores)
Amputation of legs, after bedridden patient developed bedsores on the heels due to neglect
Patient suffered broken foot during improper transfer from bed to wheelchair
Overmedication of patient in nursing home
Improper monitoring and treatment of diabetes in a nursing home patient
Unexplained injuries and bruising to wheelchair bound nursing home patient
Infections and dehydration caused by lack of proper care in nursing home patient
Failure to protect patient from another resident’s physical and sexual abuse
