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The Right of Nursing Home Residents Residents of nursing homes in New Jersey have specific rights afforded to them by law, including the right to visitation. Specifically, the New Jersey Administrative Code provides residents with the following rights: To have reasonable opportunities for private and intimate physical and social interaction with other people, including arrangements
Universal Testing in Nursing Homes during the Covid -19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to nursing home residents across the country. New Jersey and Pennsylvania are amongst the states hardest hit with an estimated 2,600 thousand lives lost in Pennsylvania nursing homes. New Jersey’s numbers are even worse. Estimates indicate that nearly 53%
On April 16, 2020, Gurbir S. Grewal, Esq., the New Jersey Attorney General, announced that his office had opened a statewide investigation into the high number of COVID-19 related deaths at New Jersey’s long-term care facilities and nursing homes. The stated purpose of his investigation was to determine whether there was evidence that anyone broke
According to news reports, residents of nursing homes account for roughly half of the reported deaths from COVID-19. The reason for this is relatively obvious, as seniors tend to have a higher-than-average number of co-morbidities and tend to have immune systems that are less robust than younger people. Against this backdrop, there has been a
Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect lawyer As a Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect lawyer, it has been my experience that many nursing homes and their ancillary service providers have common ownership. That is, the same persons or entities which own the facility, frequently own the facility’s related management company, real estate holdings company, temporary staffing
When a family places their elderly loved one in a nursing home, they depending on that facility to take care of them. They should be able to trust that the facility will care for their family member in the same way they would if they were able to keep them at home. Unfortunately, many nursing
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