Abuses and Excuses
How To Hold Bad Nursing Homes Accountable
By: Jeffrey Powless
eBook | 1 September 2017
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420 Pages
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Abuses and Excuses breaks new ground in helping patients and families hold bad nursing homes accountable, sharing a wealth of insider strategies and insights that show, step-by-step, how tho hold the nursing home industry accountable for abuse and neglect. It's an eye opening account of corporate greed, acts of neglect and abuse, an insidious industry culture of cover-up, and the actual harm that inevitably befalls vulnerable nursing home patients all across the country with shocking frequency.
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Begin Here: Making a Difference
PART I: THE PERFECT STORM
1. Why Bother?
2. Tip of the Iceberg.
3. A Perfect Storm in the Making
PART II: THE HARM
4. Pressure Sores
5. Falls
6. Medication "Errors"
7. Physical, Sexual and Psychological Abuse
8. The List Goes On: Examples of Other Harms
PART III: EMPOWERMENT
9. You Have a Right to Medical Records
10. Engaging an Ombudsman
11. Your Right to a State Investigation: Filing a Complaint
12. Researching Nursing Homes
13. Filing a Criminal Complaint
14. Filing a Civil Lawsuit
15. What to Expect: Nursing Home Excuses & Tactics
16. Fighting Laws That Protect Bad Nursing Homes - Part I: The Arbitration Hurdle
17. Fighting Laws That Protect Bad Nursing Homes - Part II: Arbitrary Caps on Damages
Right Now
About the Author
Bibliography
ISBN: 9780999027011
ISBN-10: 0999027018
Published: 1st September 2017
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 420
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Boatdock Publishing