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Nursing Home Abuse: Violation of Resident's Rights

Our San Diego elder abuse lawyers feel that it is important for all nursing home residents to understand their legal rights. Under California law, all nursing home residents are entitled to certain specified rights. These rights must be provided to each and every resident at the time of admission in the form of a written policy entitled "Nursing Home Resident's Bill of Rights." This policy affords residents of nursing homes the right to:

Privacy, dignity, and respect
Choose their own physician
Possess personal property
Plan their own medical care and treatment
Be fully informed of their medical condition and treatment
Manage their own finances
Determine which visitors they wish to receive
Be discharged or transferred only for medical reasons

Ideally, such rights are automatic, not the subject of long, complicated legislation. However, given the recent surge in nursing home litigation brought about by California elder abuse attorneys, it is clear that some nursing home facilities are failing to provide their elderly residents with even these most basic of respects.

Many nursing home residents may not realize this, but when a facility commits an act in violation of these rights, thereby causing harm to a resident, that resident has grounds to hire a California elder neglect attorney and file a lawsuit. The complexity involved in litigating these kinds of cases under the applicable laws cannot be overstated. Therefore, it is critical that a person injured as a result of his resident's rights being violated retain knowledgeable, experienced legal counsel.

How our San Diego elder abuse lawyers can help if your rights have been violated

At Berman & Riedel, LLP, our San Diego elder negligence lawyers have a complete understanding not only of the laws governing residents' rights cases, but of all laws and regulations involved in litigating nursing home cases. Further, our lawyers have represented many clients throughout California in their nursing home litigation cases, and are proud to have aggressively advocated for each and every client, successfully obtaining the best possible results in many violation of residents' rights cases.

If you or a loved one has had your residents' rights violated, our San Diego elder neglect lawyers can offer the experience and skill necessary to provide you with sound advice on how to protect your legal rights. Contact an elder abuse attorney at Berman & Riedel, LLP to discuss your legal options.

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