Nursing Home Abuse: A New Crackdown on Florida Adult Living Facilities
Florida is finally cracking down on elderly abuse and neglect. It began with a Broward County assisted living facility in Lauderhill, which had been recently reported in a Miami Herald article as having ignored a dying resident. After the Miami Herald investigative report in May, the Agency for Health Care Administration has closed two facilities and cut Medicaid funds to over a dozen other facilities. In fact, there have been more sanctions against assisted living facilities since the May Miami Herald report than any other time period in the last five years.
As a Coral Springs nursing home abuse lawyer, Dan Cytryn, the founder of our firm, has been helping the victims and families of victims who have suffered at the hands of negligent nursing homes and assisted living facilities during his 30-year career. Some of the most common cases that our firm handles include bed sores (decubitis ulcers), broken bones suffered as a result of falling, dehydration, and death. Mr. Cytryn fights to obtain justice for his clients.
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