The Legal Response to Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect

We have been handling these cases for long enough to understand the realities of the nursing home industry in Lexington and statewide. Many nursing homes, now often referred to as long-term care facilities, have been purchased by corporations located outside of Kentucky. As the ownership of these organizations has changed, the quality of care has declined.

These facilities are businesses that have a bottom line to look after, and sometimes they spend so much time looking after it that they forget to look after their residents. They cut staff or hire staff without the proper training to meet the needs of residents. As a result, residents start developing bedsores because they have not been moved. Residents suffer broken bones because they have nobody watching them. In the worst cases, it is not just neglect, it is direct abuse from the staff in the form of assaults – verbal, physical and sexual.