San Diego Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Attorneys
Berman & Riedel, LLP - Attorneys at Law
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Click here to visit our personal injury website, Berman LawyersMost nursing home and elder care facility residents depend on medicines to treat the illness they suffer from as well as to maintain their health. In California, any facilities that provide custodial care for elderly or dependent adult patients or residents are allowed to provide routine physician ordered medications and/or emergency medications to their residents.
The laws governing the proper administration of medication at nursing homes and residential care facilities for the elderly are different depending on the type of facility involved but as a basic rule, every facility must have in place for each resident a drug regimen that must be reviewed at least once a month by a licensed pharmacist. The pharmacist must report any irregularities to the attending physician and the director of nursing, and these reports must be acted upon. More over, in order to ensure that medications are administered safely, California law requires all nursing homes, care facilities and physicians to properly order, record, store, administer, and monitor medications for each patient or resident. Yet despite strict standards governing the control and administration of medications, medication problems, such as failure to monitor medications, are common.
The attorneys at Berman & Riedel, LLP, have handled numerous cases involving the failure of different facilities to properly monitor and provide a resident’s physician ordered medications. Most such errors have resulted in serious harm and the wrongful death of the resident.
If a care facility has failed to properly monitor or provide you or a loved one with medications that has resulted in serious injury and/or death, Berman & Riedel, LLP can offer the experience and skill necessary to provide you with sound advice on what your rights may be under the law. Contact an attorney at Berman & Riedel, LLP to discuss your legal options.
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