Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers in Chester PA

What to do this week

1. If the facility is in Chester, Pennsylvania or one of the riverfront boroughs around it, the sequence below is the same and it is urgent. Photograph anything visible, dated, and keep photographing weekly.
2. Request the complete chart in writing. Name the records: repositioning logs, Braden assessments, skin assessments, the weight log, the medication administration record and every incident report.
3. Write down each explanation you are given, with the date and who gave it. Accounts that change are evidence.
4. Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which licenses and inspects facilities.
5. Send us the admission paperwork, because of the arbitration clause.

What the records usually show

Pressure sores are documented by their absence from repositioning records. Falls are documented by the risk assessment that identified the danger and the care plan that was never revised. Weight loss is documented in a log that nobody acted on.

The detail on each of these is in the nursing home abuse section. What is local is only that we are close, and that a Delaware County case is generally filed in Media.

Staffing is usually the answer

Most neglect is not cruelty. It is one aide responsible for more residents than any person could turn, feed and toilet in a shift, and that ratio is a budget decision made well above the building. Payroll based staffing data is auditable and it is frequently where these cases are proved.

The office

405 Avenue of the States, answered 24 hours on (610) 686-3088. If you would rather we came to you, or to the facility, we will.