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If you have a loved one in a Virginia nursing home who is struggling with bedsores – and you think there is a problem, you are right. With proper care, bedsores should not develop on nursing home residents. The presence of bedsores on a Virginia nursing home resident indicates that something is very wrong.
When a resident arrives at a Virginia nursing home, they should be assessed by the staff to determine how likely they are to develop bedsores. The “Braden Score” is used to predict whether or not a resident is susceptible to developing pressure sores (another name for bedsores).
Depending on the resident’s Braden score, the nursing home should have developed a care plan that describes how staff will care for the resident and ensure that they do not develop pressure sores.
Nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect can arise in a variety of ways:
· The nursing home fails to evaluate the resident’s likelihood to develop pressure sores, so nothing is done to prevent them.
· The nursing home evaluates the resident, but does not perform the evaluation correctly. An incorrect evaluation can lead to the resident not being properly treated for pressure sore prevention.
· The nursing home evaluates the resident, but does not develop a care plan after the evaluation. An evaluation is meaningless unless something is done to address issues it uncovers.
· The nursing home evaluates the resident and develops a care plan, but the care plan does not adequately address issues found in the assessment.
· The nursing home has a good resident assessment, has a good care plan, but fails to follow the care plan.
· Finally, the nursing home can evaluate the resident, establish a care plan, and document that they’ve followed the plan – but they falsified the paperwork and really did not follow the plan after all.
If your loved one has developed a bed sore or pressure sore – no matter what stage it – you should get help immediately. Talk to the nursing home and consult a skilled nursing home neglect attorney like one at Dulaney, Lauer & Thomas. Please don’t accept the nursing home’s assertion that “bedsores cannot be avoided” – this simply is not true.
DULANEY, LAUER & THOMAS, LLP
Warrenton Office
98 Alexandria Pike, Suite 11
Warrenton, VA 20186
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Culpeper, VA 22701
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