Should You File a Lawsuit if a Healthcare Facilities Discriminate Against You? I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. Discrimination against people for any reason is wrong and illegal. People frequently call me with stories of obvious and blatant...
Immunity for Nursing Homes COVID-19 is a global disaster, the scale and extent of which is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes, with the possible exception of those few people alive today who survived the 1918 Flu Pandemic. That said, it’s not as if the need to...
Coronavirus is no Excuse for Nursing Home Lapses The Washington Post last week reported that a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington was cited for multiple violations including failing to report an outbreak of COVID-19, for giving inadequate care to its residents...
Last week, the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR.ORG), issued a press release asking Governor Newsom to reverse a CDPH directive which stated: “SNFs shall not refuse to admit or readmit a resident based on their status as a suspected or confirmed...
An opinion columnist at Bloomberg published an article on April 6, 2020, in which he suggests that COVID-19 deaths worldwide are being underreported because they often don’t include deaths from residents at nursing homes. In France last week, 884 deaths in nursing...
You may have seen the news last week that 84 patients were evacuated from Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a facility in Riverside, CA, after employees failed to show up for two days in a row. The Riverside County Public Health Department ultimately...
We're all hurting from COVID-19. Unemployment is skyrocketing, businesses of all kinds are shut down, schools are closed, and our livesare topsy-turvy.Thankfully, of course, our Federal Government stepped in to protect those hardest hit by the crisis with a $2...
I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. Residents of nursing homes are often sent to a hospital with Stage 4 pressure sores or hyponatremia caused by dehydration, but such cases are often not reported as abuse. The law in California states that doctors...
There are times when I’m sitting across the table from a defendant’s attorney where I must remind myself that there really are two sides to every argument. When bad things happen to patients in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities that look black and white to...
I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. Here’s a common situation: When you or your loved one were admitted to a nursing home or skilled nursing facility, you were probably given a stack of papers to sign. I’ve seen some cases where clients had to sign...