Medical chronology
Organizing the records so the resident’s condition, changes in function, treatment, and resulting injury can be understood over time.
Nursing Home Negligence
When vulnerable residents are harmed by failures in care.
Families depend on nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities to provide safe, attentive, dignified care. Deliso Law investigates whether known risks were recognized, reasonable care was provided, and the medical record tells the full story.
Issues we evaluate
- Pressure injuries and infection
- Falls and fractures
- Medication and monitoring failures
- Malnutrition and dehydration
- Physical or emotional abuse
- Failures to follow care plans
What we examine
Care plans, charting, staffing, supervision, and what actually happened.
A nursing-home case often turns on the difference between what the resident needed and what the record shows was actually provided. The firm reviews available care plans, nursing notes, medical records, transfer documentation, incident materials, photographs, witness accounts, and other evidence relevant to the event and resulting injury.
When the injury involves a pressure injury or bed sore, the analysis may include mobility, repositioning, skin assessment, support surfaces, nutrition, moisture management, and whether changes in the resident’s condition were recognized and addressed.
Case preparation
Building the medical and factual record.
Facility evidence
Reviewing the care plan, progress notes, assessments, incident documentation, transfer records, and other available facility materials.
Outside professionals
When appropriate, the firm works with medical and other qualified professionals to analyze the evidence and explain disputed issues.
Local nursing-home representation
Brooklyn nursing-home negligence cases and serious care failures throughout New York City.
From its Brooklyn office, Deliso Law represents families in nursing-home and rehabilitation-facility matters throughout Brooklyn, including Park Slope, Red Hook, Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Sunset Park, as well as Staten Island and the other New York City boroughs. Cases also handled in New Jersey through associated counsel.
Bed sore resources by borough: BrooklynQueensStaten Island
Nursing-home questions
Questions families often have when the care record raises concerns.
What records are important in a nursing-home negligence case?
The chart may include nursing notes, care plans, wound assessments, repositioning records, physician orders, medication records, nutrition information, incident reports, hospital records, photographs, and other documentation relevant to the resident’s condition and care.
Does a pressure injury automatically mean the nursing home was negligent?
No. A pressure injury is not automatically evidence of negligence. The question is whether known risks were assessed and whether reasonable preventive, monitoring, and treatment measures were provided and documented under the circumstances.
When should a family seek a legal review of nursing-home care?
A review may be appropriate when there is an unexplained serious injury, worsening pressure wound, fall, fracture, infection, hospitalization, or significant difference between what the family was told and what appears in the medical record.
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There is no attorney’s fee unless the firm obtains a recovery.