Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Many nursing home patients are susceptible to impacted bowels where a facility’s caretakers are understaffed or inattentive. Nursing homes are responsible for providing proper nutrition and hydration, including fiber, water, and healthy foods that keep residents from having painful constipation. Bowel movements should be monitored with regard to timing, quantity, and consistency. Undiagnosed fecal impactions can lead to infection and if left further untreated, to sepsis or blood poisoning. Even if fecal impactions do not in themselves develop into a serious problem or injury, impactions may indicate a facility’s systematic failures, such as poor provision for nutrition or monitoring procedures. These failures demonstrate a facility’s unwillingness to provide quality care for its residents.

If you or a loved one has experienced a bowel impaction please do not hesitate to call. Our attorneys can identify signs of neglect and abuse and seek to right the wrongs that your loved one may have endured at a care facility.