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This Is the Most Important Page on Our Website — Read It Carefully  Every nursing home lawsuit in New York has a deadline — called the statute of limitations — after which you permanently lose the right to sue, no matter how clear the negligence was. Many families who...

When a Nassau County Nursing Home's Negligence Takes a Life  No family expects their loved one to die because a nursing home failed to provide adequate care. Yet preventable deaths in nursing homes occur with devastating frequency — from untreated infections, pressure...

Nursing Home Falls Are Preventable — When a Fall Happens, It Is Often the Facility's Fault Falls are the most common cause of serious injury in nursing homes. Broken hips, femur fractures, subdural hematomas, and spinal injuries from nursing home falls frequently...

Bedsores Do Not Happen by Accident — They Happen Because of Neglect A pressure ulcer — commonly called a bedsore or decubitus ulcer — forms when sustained pressure on the skin cuts off blood flow to the underlying tissue. In a properly staffed nursing home, residents...

Your Family Trusted a Nassau County Nursing Home. They Failed. When a family makes the difficult decision to place a parent or spouse in a nursing home, they are placing their trust in the hands of that facility's staff and administration. Nursing homes in Nassau...

Families enroll loved ones in nursing homes with the expectation that they will receive attentive, dignified, and medically appropriate care. When that trust is broken, the consequences can be devastating. In the most serious situations, negligence does not stop at...

Admitting a loved one to a nursing home is never an easy decision. Families trust that the facility will provide attentive care, protect residents from harm, and respond quickly when health needs change. Unfortunately, neglect does not always show up in dramatic ways....