Thomas Pleasant helps people who are being victimized by insurance companies. If you are facing obstacles in getting your insurer to pay a legitimate claim or if your claim has already been denied, Thomas can help you. His areas of special expertise include insurance bad faith cases, long-term disability claims, and property damage and losses as well as personal injury and product liability cases, and situations in which people are being treated unfairly by their employers and as consumers. Thomas represents clients in the Southeast and Mid regions of North Carolina. If you need legal help, contact Thomas today for a free consultation. www.pleasantlaw.com

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Pleasant Law Blog (Insurance Claims, Medical Misakes, and Nursing Home Claims)

North Carolina Injury and Wrongful Death Attorney Thomas Waitt Pleasant's blog, facilitating commentary on North Carolina nursing home abuse, injury, neglect, and wrongful death; as well as medical malpractice, medical mistakes and medical negligence. Topics also include unfair and bad faith insurance claims practices.
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Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect

11/17/2008
Thomas Pleasant
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Dehydrated Nursing Home Patients: Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Lawyers Can Provide Guidelines

Weight loss is the most obvious and critical factor in determining whether the nursing home is properly feeding and hydrating the resident-patient. There are industry standards and guidelines that can be used to determine whether the rate and amount of weight loss is acceptable, and these are a good starting point for determining whether there is a problem. If the nursing home staff tells you that the weight loss is because the resident just won’t eat, know that this is, in itself, not an acceptable excuse. If a resident is not eating, it could be because he or she is not getting the proper help. Stroke and dementia victims, for example, require a lot of patient help: patience and help an understaffed nursing home might be unable/unwilling to give. Stories of nursing home staff leaving trays of food beside residents’ beds, out of reach, are not uncommon. There is rarely a good excuse for resident weight loss, and you should “investigate” when weight loss is significant in accordance with the above guidelines. In some cases, nursing home residents may actually have a feeding tube. Amazingly, some feeding tube patients still lose weight. There is virtually no excuse for this. The nursing home controls the quantity of food, and should ensure that the resident receives proper nutrition. Residents on feeding tubes often lose weight when staffing is inadequate, and the work required to ensure proper feeding tube feeding is simply not done. For example, in some patients the feeding must be stopped and started again at certain intervals, which requires more monitoring. If your loved one is a patient in a nursing home, and suffering from weight loss, contact my office for a consultation. We can discuss the weight loss guidelines and other issues in your case, and make a determination as to what to do.

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