Key Takeaways You visit your mother on a Tuesday and find her slumped in her wheelchair, barely able to lift her head or finish a sentence. Only days earlier, she was alert and talkative, and now she sleeps through every visit, slurs her words, and no longer recognizes the grandch...

The death of a loved one in a nursing home is one of the most difficult experiences a family can face. In the immediate aftermath, many families are overwhelmed, unsure of what happened, and uncertain about their rights. The decisions made in the days immediately following a nursi...

The medical community classifies Stage 3 and Stage 4 pressure ulcers as never events: harms so preventable with proper care that their development inside a care facility is considered strong evidence of systemic failure. California law reaches the same conclusion. A nursing home t...

Key Takeaways Pressure ulcers do not appear without warning. Every Stage 3 or Stage 4 bedsore that develops inside a California nursing home was preceded by days or weeks of missed opportunities to intervene. Understanding how these wounds form, what California law requires facili...

What Is MICRA? California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act — better known as MICRA — has limited the compensation available to victims of medical malpractice since 1975. While victims can always recover the full amount of their economic losses, such as me...