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November 15, 2017Your rights as a nursing home resident in New YorkThe law in the State of New York provides various rights for resident of nursing homes, including the right to: dignity, respect and a...
November 10, 2017Assessing Nursing Home residents for risk of skin breakdownThe following is a sample policy that may be implemented in certain nursing homes regarding assessment of nursing home residents for risk...
November 6, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigates potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...
November 6, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigate potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againsThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...
November 3, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigates potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...
November 3, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigates potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...November 3, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigates potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...
November 3, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda investigates potential nursing home abuse and neglect injury cases againThe lawyers at New York City and Long Island serious injury firm Leitner Warywoda PLLC are currently investigating potential nursing...
October 30, 2017Preventing Falls in Nursing HomesNursing homes have a duty to recognize residents that are fall risks in order to identify interventions to prevent the resident from...
October 27, 2017Signs of Nursing Home Abuse, Neglect and NegligenceIt is essential that family members of loved ones residing in nursing homes pay careful attention to the following signs and symptoms,...October 24, 2017Recent New York State Nursing Home Fines and Enforcement ActionsThe following is a list of New York Department of Health Enforcement Actions against various nursing homes: 0470 Creekview Nursing and...October 23, 2017Staging of pressure ulcers (bed sores)A pressure ulcer, also known as a decubitus ulcer or bed sore, is any lesion caused by unrelieved pressure that results in damage to...October 16, 2017New York Enacts Additional Elder Abuse Law; Leitner Warywoda Fights for Victims of Elder Abuse and Recently, Governer Cuomo signed a bill int law which requires state agencies to develop guidelines to assist health care providers (i.e....
October 12, 2017New York State found to be slow to investigate serious complaints involving nursing homes; Leitner VA recent report issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found a significant...
October 4, 2017Attorneys Brett Leitner and Justin Varughese Selected as New York SuperLawyersLeitner Warywoda partners Brett Leitner and Justin Varughese were selected in the 2017 New York edition of SuperLawyers. Here is a link...September 29, 2017Steps to take to help guard against nursing home negligence, theft, abuseVisit your loved one frequently and vary your visits. Depending on the nursing home’s visiting hours, how strictly they’re enforced, and...
September 28, 2017The Rights of Nursing Home ResidentsThe Rights of Nursing Home residents As set forth by Medicare and other sources, neglect and abuse are not the only concerns faced by...
September 26, 2017Overview of New York State's Law Providing the Right To Sue for Nursing Home Abuse, Negligence aSUMMARY OF CAUSES OF ACTION PURSUANT TO PUBLIC HEALTH LAW § 2801-d Public Health Law § 2801-d provides a private statutory cause of action for residents of nursing homes injured as a result of the nursing home’s deprivation of certain “resident’s rights.” It is a separate and distinct cause of action and may be plead “in addition to and cumulative with other remedies available to the plaintiff at law,” such as medical malpractice, negligence or wrongful death. It provides in relevant part:...
September 20, 2017Leitner Warywoda Attorneys Brett Leitner and Justin Varughese Selected to Super Lawyers® 2017NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNews: -- New York City and Long Island personal injury lawyers Brett Leitner and Justin Varughese, partners...
September 19, 2017Attorneys Leitner Warywoda are investigating negligence and abuse claims against Brooklyn, New YorkLeitner Warywoda, premier New York nursing home lawyers handling cases involving neglect, abuse. negligence, and accidents involving...September 19, 2017New York Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse Attorneys Leitner WarywodaBelow are various YouTube videos representing some of the areas of practice of the lawyers at Leitner Warywoda PLLC. Leitner Warywoda...September 18, 2017Nursing home deaths prompt new rulesThe deaths of multiple nursing home residents in Florida prompted Governor Rick Scott of Florida to implement new rules requiring nursing...September 15, 2017New York Times' Tips for Choosing a Nursing Home; New York Nursing Home Negligence Attorneys LeiIn light of the recent news that eight Florida nursing home residents died as a result of a power outage caused by Hurricane Irma, the...
September 14, 2017New York Nursing Home Accident Lawyers Leitner Warywoda Condemns Deaths of Eight Nursing Home ResidNursing homes in New York State, as well as the across the United States, are required by federal and state regulations to provide...