Fighting for a Higher Standard of Care
Georgia Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorneys: Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto
Watching our parents, grandparents, and other family members grow older can be stressful. We worry about their lives as the aging process eventually begins to take its toll, so we learn how to care for them, monitoring their medicines, taking them to doctor appointments, watching their diets, ensuring they are getting appropriate physical activity and whatever else we can do to keep them happy and healthy. We strive to keep them living as independently as they are able for as long as possible.
Should complications arise, however, we may need to turn the care of our loved ones over to an assisted living, nursing home or long-term care facility. We expect these facilities to provide quality, thoughtful and compassionate care for our loved ones. While many of these places do provide excellent care, far too many do not. Unfortunately, the elderly and other vulnerable residents pay the price for a facility’s decisions. Often understaffed with underpaid, poorly-trained and inattentive employees, many nursing homes push the bottom line so far that they endanger the lives of their patients.
Claims for Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse
At the law office of Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto, P.C., we hold the nursing home industry responsible for any negligence, abuse or substandard care suffered by residents. Our lawyers aggressively pursue personal injury and wrongful death claims against long-term health care providers who have failed in their basic duties to provide safe and medically appropriate care.
When our loved ones are allowed to succumb to bed sores, suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, are improperly monitored, experience slip and fall accidents, or deal with the effects of medication errors, they are the victims of nursing home neglect and abuse. In extreme cases, physical and sexual abuse and wrongful death may occur at the hands of those we have entrusted to provide compassionate and professional care.
In almost all of these areas there are warning signs of neglect and elder abuse. If you believe your loved one has indeed been abused, you need a legal team with the skill and experience to fight for you. You need Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto.
Seeking Compensation for Negligence and Elder Abuse
To help clients receive the help and support they need, we aggressively seek maximum compensation for each person we represent. We seek all available forms of financial recovery including pain, suffering and medical bills. When appropriate and allowable by law, we may also seek punitive damages.
To prepare for the possibility of trial, we have access to a wide range of experts specializing in a variety of elder law-related issues who can provide reports and, if necessary, testify in court. We even have an in-house RN who specializes in acute care gerontology.
To contact an attorney at our firm about an injury caused by nursing home neglect or abuse, call us toll-free at 678-792-2003 or send us an e-mail to schedule a consultation with an attorney at one of our six Georgia locations in Atlanta, Cartersville, Calhoun, Dallas, Dalton or Savannah. From those offices we serve clients in a number of local communities, including Marietta, Alpharetta, Gainesville, Rome, Lawrence, Tucker, Griffin and Smyrna.
