Nursing Home Injuries

It is always difficult when a person is no longer able to live alone, and requires long-term care. When family members select a nursing home or assisted living facility, they rely on staff and administrators to provide professional and responsible care for their loved ones. Unfortunately, cost-cutting measures and other forms of negligence daily result in nursing home injuries, injuries that never should have happened. At Bosco, Bisignano & Mascolo, Esqs. in Staten Island, our attorneys fight for the rights of nursing home patients and senior citizens, representing them in personal injury claims for elder abuse and neglect.

If you suspect that a nursing home patient or resident in another institution has been injured as the result of neglect or abuse, you can help. The first, critically important step is to preserve evidence, since nursing homes and residential schools are notorious for cover-ups. Take pictures of bruises, bedsores or fractured limbs. Get names and contact information for potential witnesses. Keep any medication, food, restraints or other potential evidence and make detailed notes of your observations and the patient's statements. Contact an attorney with experience in nursing home injury cases and ask what further measures to take.

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Our firm has represented clients in numerous cases involving abuse and neglect at institutions including schools, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, including cases involving the following:

• A nursing home patient burned to death in a fire caused by another resident smoking in a common sitting room
• Patients who, as a result of being dropped or falling out of bed, suffered fractures, bruises and head injuries
• Patients mistreated and manhandled by staff
• Patients who, through the neglect of caretakers, suffered bedsores (also called decubitus ulcers or pressure sores), dehydration and malnutrition
• Patients who were seriously injured or killed as a result of drug errors or over-sedation
• Sexual assaults of nursing care patients

Talk to an attorney about a nursing home injury claim

We are proud to make available the resources of a large firm to our local clients. We offer free consultations to find out if you have a case and will benefit from hiring a lawyer. In any case, it is extremely important to consult with a personal injury attorney as soon as possible after a serious accident in order to preserve evidence and build the strongest case possible. If you would like to speak with a member of our firm, call 888-SI ACCIDENT (888-742-2243) or e-mail our office and arrange a free consultation at our Richmond County offices. Unable to travel? We will visit you in your home or hospital. If we take your case, we will launch an immediate investigation and, of course, we charge no fees unless we recover compensation on your behalf.

Bosco, Bisignano & Mascolo, Esqs. LLP