Nursing Home Information and Articles

The Importance of choosing the correct nursing home

A Cuyahoga County grand jury is expected to hear the case of an 84-year-old woman who died on Christmas eve at The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center Nursing Home in Warrensville Heights. Amber Henderson, 31, of Willoughby Hills, w… Read More

Choosing the right lawyer to handle your nursing home case

I write a lot of articles in this blog about how to choose the right nursing home, when to move your loved one to a safer nursing home, and many ways to keep your loved one safe in the nursing home. Our preference would be that everybody chooses a sa… Read More

Can falls be prevented in a nursing home?

Between 700,000 and 1,000,000 patients of healthcare facilities fall each year. A significant portion of those result in a preventable injury. A significant portion of those individuals will die, as a result. Nursing homes often argue that not all fa… Read More

Falls in Nursing Homes

Americans, age 75 and older, face the highest risk of fatal brain injuries, according to new research examining traumatic brain injury deaths throughout the United States. The research, published in the journal, Brain Injury, analyzed U.S. mortality… Read More
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Nurse charged in death of 84-year-old at Warrensville nursing home

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cuyahoga County grand jury is expected to hear the case of an 84-year-old woman who died Christmas Eve at a Warrensville nursing home. Amber Henderson, 31, of Willoughby Hills was charged in Bedford Municipal Court with involunt… Read More

Nursing home employee beat disabled residents in front of co-worker, Florida cops say

An employee at a Florida nursing home is accused of striking disabled residents multiple times, authorities said. Detectives began investigating a report Dec. 23 that two residents were abused by an employee at Lake Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation F… Read More
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Nursing Home Resident, 84, Died on Christmas Eve After Being Left Alone in the Cold for 10 Hours

Alvera Meuti was reportedly pronounced dead after she was found lying on outside a care and rehabilitation center in Ohio on Dec. 24. An 84-year-old woman reportedly died on Christmas Eve after she remained outside her nursing home in Ohio because nu… Read More

The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center

The Warrensville Heights police are investigating the death of an elderly woman after she was found unresponsive outside of The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center on Christmas Eve. According to the Warrensville Heights police repor… Read More
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Elderly woman died after being found unresponsive outside local nursing home

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) — Warrensville Heights police are investigating the death of an elderly woman after she was found unresponsive outside of the Avenue Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center on Christmas Eve. To read the full art… Read More

The Nursing Home Residents Bill of Rights

Did you know that there was a law in Ohio known as the Nursing Home Residents Bill of Rights? The Ohio State Legislature passed this law many years ago and it is known as the Nursing Home Residents Bill of Rights. This law is Ohio Revised Code § 372… Read More

The Ohio Supreme Court has only considered two (2) cases that involved the rights of nursing home residents and I was involved in both cases.

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