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Nursing Home Abuse/Neglect Form

 

Background
Patient/ Victim's Name:
Contact E-mail
Contact Phone (Optional)
Date of Birth/ Age
Marital Status
Children/ Grandchildren
What was the patient's pay source?  (Medicaid, Private, Insured, or combination of these)
Did anyone maintain records of the payments?
Did anyone maintain records of payments the facility received from other sources?  (i.e. Medicare/ Medicaid Statements or Explanation of benefits from private insurance)
Who supplied medication?  (Facility pharmacy or private pharmacy)
Facility
Name of Facility:
Location: (Include county or parish)
Time periods in the facility:  (admission/ discharge)
Were there any transfers to the hospital? (When, Where, Why, Who requested the transfer, Date of return to the facility, etc...)
What was the original reason for the nursing home placement?
Did you obtain any brochures or materials about the facility and the care that was to provided?
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What were the representations made to you about the facility, both prior to and after admission?
Who made these representations?
Has anyone seen any survey or citations at the facility?
Were they posted at the facility?
Where was the patient prior to admission into the nursing facility?
What hospital?
If an acute hospital, where prior to that?
When the decision was made to place the patient at the facility, whom did you speak with?
Who visited the nursing facility?
How often did they visit?
Did they attend any family counsel meetings?
Were any family counsel meetings scheduled?
Did any representative from the facility invite family to careplan/ interdisciplinary meetings?
How often?
Who attended?
Did anyone voice concerns at those meetings?
How were those concerns addressed?
Complaints
What were the complaints about the facility?
Who did they complain to?
What was their response?
Did anyone keep any type of diary?
Were the complaints in writing or verbal?
Has anyone made a complaint to the ombudsman or Department of Health and Hospitals?
If so, what was the result?
Do you have a copy of the complaint or citation?
Impressions
What was the general appearance of the facility?
How did it smell?
Were call lights answered properly?
After admission into the nursing facility, did anyone notice a change in your family members' attitude?
Did he/she become quieter?
Did he/she act frightened?
Did he/she ever say to not complain?
Did he/she fear retaliation?
Did anyone witness abuse or neglect of other residents?
Was staffing an issue?
Did the staff ever complain to any family members?
Does anyone recall the staff member's name?
In The Case of Death
What was the cause of death?
Do you have the death certificate?
What does the death certificate indicate as the cause of death?
Does the cause of death on the certificate differ from statements from other health care providers? (i.e. ER Physician, Nurses, Attending Physician)
What were the events leading to the death?
What was done by the nursing facility?
Was there a delay in treatment?
General Care
What was the prognosis when admitted to the nursing facility?
Who was the treating physician before admission?
What medication (s) was the patient taking prior to going to the facility?
Were there any changes in medications?
Was anyone in the family notified?
Were any medications used that altered his/her mentation? (Psychotrophic: Haldol, Xanax, Ativan, etc...)
Did the staff or physician inform family members of the risks involved with the use of the medications?
Physical
Were you notified of changes in condition?
What were the injuries?
Did anyone take photographs of the injuries?
Did he/she develop bedsore?
Did the staff provide physical therapy or range of motion?
Did he/she lose weight?
How much weight?
Over what period of time?
Was anyone notified?
Did the facility intervene?
Did anyone speak with a dietician or dietary supervisor?
Were supplements offered?
Vitamins?


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