Southern California Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog

A significant update to California’s POLST framework is moving steadily through the state legislature. Senate Bill 1088<...

Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in Sonoma County and throughout the Bay Area should be places where all residents receive the level and degree of care that meets their needs, and where all potential injury hazards are eliminated or minimized through staff attention to residents. Yet much too frequently, older adults in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities...

Families place enormous trust in skilled nursing facilities. When an elderly loved one enters a nursing home, families expect that the facility will ...

For a vulnerable resident in a skilled nursing facility, the bedside call button is not a luxury or a simple convenience—it is an absolute lifeline. When a resident presses that button, they are signaling a vulnerable need for assistance with basic human function...

When families entrust the care of their elderly or vulnerable loved ones to skilled nursing

facilities, they expect a baseline standard of safety. We expect clean rooms, competent medical

oversight, attentive staff, and a secure environment ...