In Kansas City, resident falls in nursing homes frequently cause broken bones and other serious nursing home injuries to elderly residents. If suffering from broken bones was not enough, according to the nursing homes CDC fall statistics many nursing home residents also develop additional complications including brain injuries, strokes, pneumonia, and bed sores after the fall. At Bautista LeRoy, we seek to hold nursing homes accountable to provide a safe environment for all residents and ensure nursing home falls protocol are met to lessen the risk of falls.
Along with filing nursing home neglect lawsuits against nursing homes in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, our attorneys also help educate families with loved ones in nursing homes on what the morse fall scale is and how fall prevention in nursing homes can prevent falls in the elderly from occurring. If your loved one is at risk of falling, follow these nursing home fall intervention steps to ensure they are receiving proper care from the nursing home or long-term care facility.
The laws of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas, require that residents who suffer a fall in a nursing home must be immediately evaluated by the nursing home staff to determine the reason for the fall and the extent of the resident’s injuries. The facility is responsible for notifying your loved one’s physician and family contact person immediately after the incident. Unfortunately, a lot of nursing homes perform a quick fall assessment and fail to contact family members or medical providers when a fall occurs.
In many instances, due to the nursing home’s negligence, residents suffer for days with broken bones before finally being sent to a hospital. Further, residents that suffer from loss of consciousness, fever, or abnormal blood pressure after a fall should be closely monitored by the nursing home staff. Finally, once a nursing home resident falls, the nursing home must be made to improve the care being provided to that specific resident and to identify steps that will be taken to improve the resident’s safety in the future.
If your loved one has suffered a fall and you feel the nursing home has not taken the proper preventative measures or given proper care once the fall occurred, please call Bautista LeRoy at 816-221-0382. We can help.
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