Welcome to the Hughey Law Firm Nursing Home and Long Term Care Blog.  I am attorney Nathan Hughey. This site is going to contain information related to various aspects of litigation involving long term care litigation.  A large percentage of our practice at Hughey Law Firm consists of handling claims for victims of abuse or neglect […]

Assisted Living Facilities are only permitted to admit or retain residents that they can care for, and if those residents have changes in condition, assisted living facilities may not keep them anymore. However, many large for profit assisted living facilities keep residents because they are a source of income. They ask themselves, “Why give up […]

Nursing homes have a duty to screen residents and employees to ensure sexual assaults that are preventable do not occur. Nursing home sexual assault cases involve complicated steps that require fighting health care privacy laws in order to obtain the records from third party residents or employees. In addition, to review them to document that […]

Nursing homes are required to administer medications as ordered by doctors. Usually, the nursing home has a medical director who also sees the patients every other month or as required. The facility usually has an in-house pharmacy, and nursing home medication errors often occur as a result of gross neglect. Medication errors are absolutely inexcusable, […]

Nursing home abuse and neglect often leads to unexplained deaths in a facility. An unexplained death is simply unacceptable. Hughey Law Firm’s nursing home abuse and neglect attorneys have handled many nursing home death cases for which there was no explanation by the facility. Hughey Law Firm will retain experts and investigators, and examine your […]

Nursing home neglect and abuse often results in dehydration and malnutrition which leads to other health problems including pressure sores and ultimately death. Nursing homes are required to provide meals with adequate nutrition and additionally to provide supplements and snacks to make sure the residents have the ability to maintain their health status and issues […]