Understaffing Is A Legal Concern Causing Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Written by Adam Peck Category: Nursing Homes January 23rd, 2013 1 min read

Understaffing is being alleged in many cases based upon Nursing Home and Long Term Care and Neglect. The failure to adequately staff violates the Patients Bill of Rights, which includes the right to be in a facility that has sufficient staff to care for the needs of patients.

That bill of rights also lays out minimum state staffing requirements – including 3.2 nursing hours per day per patient – many long term care facilities violate the law concerning the nursing hours per day per patient.

California Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyer Steven Peck says that convalescent facilities received an extra $1 billion in reimbursements between 2004 and 2008, but failed to use that money to comply with the legal staffing requirements.

Peck says that nursing home staff commonly are underpaid and have no health benefits, and as a consequence there is high turnover.

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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.