Archive for 'Nursing Home Neglect' Category
Sep 10, 2015

Has Your Loved One Suffered a Nursing Home Fall? Did you know that every year more than 1800 of our nation’s elderly lose their lives in nursing home falls. Those who survive nursing home falls frequently sustain debilitating hip fractures and head injuries that cause permanent disability and reduced quality of life. The Sweeney law […]

Aug 4, 2015

Forced Arbitration Agreements in Indiana Nursing Homes Video with nursing home lawyer Dave Farnbauch discussing what a forced arbitration agreement is.  This agreement is saying that you will handle any kind of disagreement you have with the nursing home in an arbitration and not have the right to go to court. This could be a problem because […]

May 16, 2015

VICTIM OF INDIANA NURSING HOME NEGLECT? It’s a fact that nursing homes are a big business. The vast majority of nursing homes are for profit and half are part of chains. For profit nursing homes have on average 32 percent less nurses than their not for profit counter parts. The Sweeney Law Firm is committed […]

Sep 10, 2013

Host 1: Welcome back to InSight. We are joined now by Dave Farnbaugh with the Sweeney Law Firm and we’re going to talk today about nursing homes.This is something that lots of generations are dealing with today because whether you are getting ready to make that transition into a nursing home or you are moving […]

Mar 10, 2013

Host 1: Welcome back to InSight with Dave Farnbaugh who has been kind enough to join us again. We are talking about nursing home care and it’s such an important topic. President Obama was reelected yesterday and that obviously will raise some issues because that’s going to mean that Obama Care is not being repealed. […]

Sep 10, 2012

Indiana Nursing Home Neglect Lawyer David Farnbauch from the Sweeney law firm discusses pressure ulcers and the types of problems they cause for older people in nursining homes. If you have a loved one in a nursing home that is bed bound, you want to make sure to check their skin to see if they are developing […]

Sep 10, 2012

LEE KELSO: With an ever aging population more and more people are going to require long term care in a nursing home facility. Despite the compassionate and dedicated care provided by the vast majority of nurses and CNAs who take care of the nursing homes, there are some alarming statistics about the numbers of injuries […]

Sep 10, 2011

CHARITY FREEMAN: We are here today to talk about a public health problem that does not receive a lot of attention or press coverage, but it’s a serious health problem that’s affecting millions of people every year. I am talking about injuries from falls and the statistics are sobering. Among those aged sixty-five and older […]

Jun 21, 2011

CHARITY FREEMAN: Every year hundreds of Indiana consumers are injured by products that are dangerous or defective, despite the fact that there is a federal agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk or death from consumer products. There is still a lot of dangerous product out […]

Mar 22, 2011

CHARITY FREEMAN: It seems like it is almost a weekly occurance on the news we hear of an industrial accident or construction related accident that result in serious injury or even death. Despite advances in workplace safety there is still significant risk to workers when they are on the job. Today we are here to […]