Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers in Media PA: Facilities Across the County

The first steps do not change

Whichever facility in the Media, Pennsylvania area is involved, the sequence is the same and it is urgent because records get harder to obtain over time:

1. Photograph anything visible, dated, and keep photographing.
2. Request the complete chart in writing, naming the repositioning records, Braden assessments, weight log, medication administration record and incident reports.
3. Write down every explanation you were given, with the date and who gave it.
4. Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which licenses and inspects facilities.
5. Send us the admission paperwork, because of the arbitration clause.

The substantive material, what a pressure sore proves, how falls cases are built, what understaffing means, is on the nursing home abuse section.

Where the case would be heard

An action concerning a Delaware County facility is generally brought in the Court of Common Pleas in Media. Our head office is a few minutes’ walk away, which is a practical convenience rather than a legal advantage, though it does mean records requests and filings are handled locally.

The county’s facilities

Delaware County has a substantial number of skilled nursing facilities, personal care homes and assisted living residences, concentrated around the population centers. State inspection and complaint history for each is public, and it is worth looking at both before choosing a facility and after something has gone wrong.

If your relative has died

Two claims arise, wrongful death and a survival action, generally within two years of the death, and the estate needs somebody appointed to bring the survival claim. Families frequently lose weeks on that step. The early work is records and preservation and it is ours rather than yours.