Ramey and Hailey Attorneys at Law

One in five nursing home patient visits to hospitals is due to abuse, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Sadly, a similar study found that nursing homes often fail to report abuse. Elderly people rely on caregivers in these locations to relieve their loved ones' suffering. With 20 percent of hospital visits stemming from abuse, families depend on nurses and other workers to enhance living standards for the rest of the patients. Unfortunately, this is not usually done. There are just two ways to change this: monitoring programs run by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and legal action through civil court lawsuits. Victims of abuse and neglect in nursing homes must help their family members. This enables lawyers to bring cases of abuse and neglect before the courts. (Ramey & Hailey Attorneys at Law, 2022)