Federal Agency Moves to Prevent Nursing Home Arbitration

Written by Adam Peck Category: Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect October 5th, 2016 1 min read

Federal Agency Moves to Prevent Nursing Home Arbitration

The Department of Health and Human Services has just made it much easier to sue nursing homes for claims of elder abuse, wrongful death, and sexual harassment. This comes at a time where elder abuse and nursing home abuse has sky rocked. In fact, a whopping 1 in 6 nursing home residents faces some form of abuse each year.

It’s a Win for Nursing Home Abuse Victims

The federal agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, controls billions of dollars in Medicare & Medicaid funding and recently set a rule to stop nursing home abuse claims from being moved into the private system (also called arbitration). This rule, affecting 1 ½ million nursing home residents, will give the residents important new protections.
Nursing Home Admission Contracts actually contain fine print that pushes any disputes about the quality and safety of care into arbitration and out of the public view. This false system has actually made it difficult for victims of abuse to get justice, simply to reduce the legal costs of nursing homes.

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Written by Adam Peck

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Adam J. Peck, ESQ is a principal with Peck Law Group, APC. In 2008, Mr. Adam Peck received his Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School where he graduated Cum Laude. His practice is primarily dedicated to representing Elders, Dependent Adults, along with their loved ones and family members, who have suffered horrific personal injuries.