Allegations Against Redlands Healthcare Center for Violation of Patient’s Rights Per California Health and Safety Code §§1430(b) and (c)

1. The right to receive the care and services needed to attain or maintain her highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being (42 Code Fed.Reg.§483.25).
2. The right to be treated with consideration, respect, and full recognition of dignity and individuality (22 Cal. Adm. Code §72527(a)(11)).
3. The right to be free from psychotherapeutic drugs and physical restraints used for staff convenience and to be free from psychotherapeutic drugs used as a chemical restraint (22 Cal. Adm. Code §72527(a)(24)).
4. The rights specified in Health & Safety Code §1599.1 including:.
1. The right to show evidence of good personal hygiene.
2. The right to be given care to prevent bedsores.
3. The right to have measures used to prevent and to reduce incontinence.
4. The right to receive food and water of sufficient quantity to meet her needs.
5. While decedent was a resident and patient of Redlands Healthcare Center her above patient rights were violated as follows:.
1. She was not given sufficient water to meet her needs for hydration.
2. She was not given adequate assistance to maintain good personal hygiene.
3. She was not provide adequate measures to prevent skin breakdown.
4. She was not provided measures to prevent or reduce bowel and bladder incontinence.
5. She was not treated with consideration, respect, or full recognition or her dignity and individuality and was forced to wear diapers.
6. She was not kept free from unnecessary psychotherapeutic drugs which were used by staff for their convenience.
7. She was not provided with the monitoring she required as a post-stroke patient who was unable to swallow and had a feeding-tube in order to prevent the known risk of aspiration.
8. She was not provided care and services needed to attain or maintain her highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being.
6. As a direct and proximate result of the violations of decedent’s patient rights, she suffered dehydration, loss of human dignity, loss of mobility, fall, skin breakdown, deep tissue injury, emotional and mental distress, choking-aspiration, and ultimately death.
7. Decedent is therefore entitled to seek damages from defendants in the amount of $500 for each and every violation of her Patient Rights established at trial.
8. Decedent is further entitled to her attorney fees and costs.
9. Decedent is further entitled to seek orders from the court enjoining defendants from permitting such violations of Patient Rights from continuing in the future.

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Attorney Steven Peck has been practicing law since 1981. A former successful business owner, Mr. Peck initially focused his legal career on business law. Within the first three years, after some colleagues and friend’s parents endured nursing home neglect and elder abuse, he continued his education to begin practicing elder law and nursing home abuse law.