Huntington Beach Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer
If your loved one has been harmed by abuse at a Huntington Beach Nursing home, they deserve justice and compensation. Contact us today for a free consultation.
We have extensive experience suing the following facilities: Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Memory Care Facilities, Adult Day Care Centers, and more.
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Table of Contents:
- Why We Are the Top Choice When You Need a Nursing Home Injury Lawyer in Huntington Beach
- What Our Clients Say About Us
- We Handle Cases Involving All Types of Nursing Home Abuse and Injuries
- How To Respond When You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect
- Who Can You Sue for Nursing Home Abuse Injuries?
- What Compensation Can You Receive in a Nursing Home Abuse Claim?
- Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect in Huntington Beach
- Holding Nursing Homes Accountable in All of Huntington Beach and Surrounding Areas
- Deadlines for Filing a Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit in California
- Let Our Huntington Beach Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm Start Your Claim Today
Nursing home abuse and neglect should never happen, but it is rampant throughout California and nationwide. If your loved one has become more withdrawn or agitated than usual, it could be a warning sign for abuse. You may have noticed that they are asleep or in a fog whenever you visit, which may indicate overmedication. You also may have found that their hair is unbrushed, that they are in the same clothes day after day, or that they are always sitting in urine and feces because staff fail to help them use the restroom or care for their hygiene.
These are just a few examples of the maltreatment vulnerable adults in California nursing homes experience daily, including in Huntington Beach. Our compassionate Huntington Beach nursing home abuse lawyers can help you stop the abuse and get justice. Call us today at (888) 887-9777 or contact us online for a free consultation.
Why We Are the Top Choice When You Need a Nursing Home Injury Lawyer in Huntington Beach
We are one of the leading elder abuse law firms in the United States, handling all types of nursing home abuse and neglect claims statewide, including the Huntington Beach area. We have over 75 years of combined experience, and nursing home abuse is all we do. We see the same defendants repeatedly, and they often settle for full compensation because they know our capabilities at trial.
Nursing homes are often large corporations that complicate claims by refusing to take responsibility. They may blame the victim’s age or medical conditions for the effects of abuse. They hire expensive lawyers to erect every roadblock they can. You will need an attorney who can overcome these tactics, prove abuse or negligence occurred, and connect it to your loved one’s injuries.
Since 2008, we have recovered over $200 million for elder abuse victims and their families. We know Huntington Beach’s lawyers, judges, and insurance companies and have collaborative relationships with respected medical experts who can testify in your favor. With Lanzone Morgan, LLP, on your side, you can focus on your family, knowing we are fighting for your loved one as if they were our own.
Our History
Anthony Lanzone and James Morgan founded our firm in 2008 to give a voice to the voiceless and advocate for their right to quality care.
Anthony Lanzone knew from adolescence that he would one day represent vulnerable individuals because he was drawn to David vs. Goliath stories, in which good prevailed over evil despite insurmountable odds. He is passionate about confronting the evil of taking advantage of someone who must rely on others for their daily needs. Insurance companies and nursing homes have nearly unlimited resources to fight abuse claims, but Anthony Lanzone knows what it takes to apply the law and win based on what is right.
James Morgan focused on advocating for nursing home abuse victims before our firm started. He now has over 20 years of experience standing up to nursing homes and other large corporations. He is dedicated to supporting vulnerable adults who cannot advocate for themselves and has never represented insurance companies or corporations.
When you turn to Lanzone Morgan, LLP, everyone in our firm will treat you and your loved one like family and fight for justice and compensation with passion, precision, and perseverance.
What Our Clients Say About Us
Get started on your path to justice with Lanzone Morgan, LLP. With 75+ years of experience, we have a proven track record of holding nursing homes accountable.
We Handle Cases Involving All Types of Nursing Home Abuse and Injuries
Too often, nursing home residents experience physical, mental, verbal, sexual, and financial abuse and neglect. We have decades of experience recovering substantial compensation for victims of all types of nursing home abuse injuries, including the following:
- Bedsores: Preventable skin injuries that can cause infections and death
- Traumatic brain injuries: Injuries caused by a jolt or blow to the head, often from falling
- Subdural hematomas: Bleeding between the brain and its outer covering, potentially causing neurological damage
- Sepsis: The body’s overreaction to an infection, often causing organ failure and death
- Falls and fractures: The result of poor supervision or failure to assist residents as needed, commonly involving hip fractures
- Sexually transmitted infections: Indicate a resident has been sexually assaulted, particularly if they have dementia
- Malnutrition and dehydration: Failure to meet residents’ nutritional needs or provide feeding assistance
- Poor hygiene: Failure to assist with bathing, toileting, dressing, or grooming, or to promptly change wet or soiled diapers, linen, or clothing
- Wandering and elopement: When residents with dementia wander off-site due to a lack of supervision
- Overmedication: An illegal but common method of controlling high-need residents for staff convenience
- Wrongful death: Death that occurs because of abuse, neglect, or wrongdoing
How To Respond When You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect
If you suspect your loved one is experiencing nursing home neglect or abuse, take immediate action for their protection. Write down your observations with dates and details. Report your suspicions to the Department of Public Health by calling (800) 747-1116. You can also call the Long-Term Care Ombudsman’s CRISIS line at (800) 231-4024 to request an advocate for your loved one. The ombudsman can visit your loved one, investigate, and report abuse to the Department of Health.
If your loved one lives in an assisted living or residential care facility, contact the California Department of Social Services by emailing letusno@dss.ca.gov. If you suspect abuse in a hospital, call Adult Protective Services at (833) 401-0832.
Additionally, contact a knowledgeable California nursing home neglect lawyer in Huntington Beach as soon as possible. Residents and family members often fear that nursing homes will retaliate if they report abuse. We have never seen this happen after we became involved, likely because the nursing home knows we will be on top of it if anything happens to that person. Not reporting abuse is more risky because the abuse will likely continue and potentially escalate.
Who Can You Sue for Nursing Home Abuse Injuries?
Every person and business that perpetrates or facilitates nursing home abuse may be liable for the resulting harm, including the following parties:
- Doctors
- Nurses
- CNAs
- Pharmacists
- Radiologists
- Therapists
- Administrators
- Contractors
- Vendors
- Equipment manufacturers
- Nursing home owners
- Nursing home management companies
One of the most important jobs of a California nursing home abuse attorney is to identify all the responsible parties so you can pursue compensation from each one according to their role. When you choose Lanzone Morgan, LLP, we will work with private investigators, medical experts, eyewitnesses, and law enforcement to ensure we find every responsible party, hold all of them accountable, and maximize your compensation.
What Compensation Can You Receive in a Nursing Home Abuse Claim?
You may be entitled to recover the following damages in a Huntington Beach nursing home abuse claim:
- Economic damages: Compensate for monetary losses, such as medical expenses, the cost of transferring to a new facility, lost wages, and the value of stolen assets
- Non-economic damages: Cover the more subjective impacts on the victim’s quality of life, such as pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment of life
- Punitive damages: Damages awarded as a punishment against the defendants and a deterrent to others when you have proof of malicious, oppressive, fraudulent, or reckless misconduct
If nursing home abuse and neglect resulted in your loved one’s death, you may be eligible to recover damages in a wrongful death lawsuit. Such damages may include funeral expenses, loss of companionship, mental grief and suffering, your loved one’s pain and suffering, and punitive damages.
How Much Compensation Can You Recover When You Are Injured in a Huntington Beach Nursing Home?
The value of your nursing home abuse case will vary based on the severity of the injuries, the type of abuse, the strength of your evidence, and the skill of your attorney. Below are examples of our nursing home abuse settlements and verdicts:
- $3 million settlement for a nursing home resident who developed a coccyx bedsore that became infected
- $2.3 million verdict for an 84-year-old nursing home resident with severe permanent injuries from neglect
- $1 million settlement for the family of a nursing home resident who died from burn injuries he sustained while smoking without supervision
- $800,000 settlement for a nursing home resident who fell and broke her hip due to overmedication
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect in Huntington Beach
Nursing home abuse and neglect are nationwide problems that affect every community in every state. Nursing homes in Huntington Beach, CA, are no exception. All three Medicare-certified nursing homes in the city limits, including Beachside Nursing Center—which has Medicare.gov’s highest five-star rating—were cited for deficiencies that harmed residents or could have harmed them.
Beachside Nursing Center
Beachside Nursing Center has received 23 health citations in the last year, far above the national average of 9.6 and the state average of 16.1. The most concerning deficiencies inspectors uncovered during the most recent health inspection include the following:
- Failure to provide appropriate care for a stage four bedsore that a resident had developed at the facility
- Failure to ensure that three residents were free of fall hazards and complete all required neurological monitoring for one resident following a fall
- Failure to administer oxygen therapy according to the doctors’ orders
- Stored oxygen therapy equipment improperly
- Gave at least one resident continuous oxygen without a doctor’s order
- A medication error rate of 7.41 percent, in violation of the five percent maximum
- Unsanitary conditions in food preparation areas
During a November 2024 complaint inspection, inspectors found that multiple staff were present during the removal of a female resident’s urinary catheter, including two male staff, without the resident’s permission. The resident told inspectors that she felt violated and cried afterwards. Only one nurse is required to remove a catheter.
Huntington Valley Healthcare Center
Huntington Valley Healthcare Center has had 48 citations in the last year and 32 complaints that resulted in citations during the last three years. The most serious deficiencies inspectors uncovered at Huntington Valley Healthcare Center include the following:
- Failure to report or investigate after receiving a complaint from a resident who said her roommate verbally abused and threatened her all night
- Failure to accommodate a resident’s food allergies, causing him an allergic reaction that required hospitalization
- Unsanitary conditions in a shared resident’s restroom, including used washcloths by the sink, an unlabeled pitcher, and a soiled laundry collection bin pushed by a bare-handed staff member
- Failure to perform laboratory testing ordered by a physician or complete required neurological checks on a resident who had fallen
- Unnecessary and improper psychotropic medications administered to dementia patients
Sea Cliff Healthcare Center
Sea Cliff Healthcare Center has the red hand icon next to its name on Medicare.gov, indicating it was recently cited for abuse. It has been cited for 19 deficiencies during the last year and 28 substantiated complaints during the last three years. A September 6, 2024, complaint inspection revealed that two residents were injured in a physical altercation when a resident scratched another resident, who responded by biting their hand.
Other alarming deficiencies inspectors found during recent inspections include the following:
- Failure to assess a resident with a significant weight loss
- Failure to perform all required neurological assessments after a resident fell
- Improper feeding tube care, in which nurses used plungers to rapidly push food and medication down residents’ feeding tubes and failed to check for residual medications before administering more
- Failure to provide appropriate respiratory care for a resident.
- A 20 percent cumulative medication error rate, violating the medical standard of no more than five percent
Holding Nursing Homes Accountable in All of Huntington Beach and Surrounding Areas
We handle cases throughout California, including all areas of Huntington Beach, Orange County, and the following surrounding areas:
- Long Beach
- Westminster
- Newport Beach
- Costa Mesa
- Santa Ana Garden Grove
- Midway City
- Irvine
- Fountain Valley
Deadlines for Filing a Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit in California
The statute of limitations imposes time limits for injured parties to file nursing home abuse lawsuits. These deadlines vary based on the details of the case. Because nursing homes are health care facilities, many claims against nursing homes involve medical malpractice. The deadline for medical malpractice claims is generally one year from the date the abuse is discovered or should have been discovered, but no later than three years after it occurred.
Some elder abuse claims against nursing homes do not involve medical care/ Therefore, they are governed by the personal injury statute of limitations, which requires that claims must be filed within two years of the incident. Elder abuse claims against residential care and assisted living facilities generally fall under the two-year statute of limitations.
Determining the statute of limitations in any case involving elderly and dependent adults is a complex process requiring a thorough legal analysis. Contact our experienced attorneys as soon as possible when you suspect abuse so we can take fast action and file your claim before it is too late.
Let Our Huntington Beach Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm Start Your Claim Today
We are an experienced nursing home abuse law firm with 75 years of combined experience and a proven track record of holding nursing homes accountable. We have recovered over $200 million in compensation for elderly and dependent adults and their families.
We don’t take the faith you put in our firm lightly when you choose our Huntington Beach nursing home abuse lawyers. You will receive compassionate advocacy, 24/7 support, and a customized approach to ensure you get justice and full compensation.
Call (888) 887-9777 or contact us online to start the path to justice.
Written and edited by our team of expert legal content writers and reviewed and approved by attorney Anthony C. Lanzone.
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- Nursing Home Infections
- Falls & Fractures
- Unexplained Broken Bones
- Bedsores/Pressure Sores
- Sepsis
- Medication Errors/Overmedication
- Unauthorized Use of Restraints
- Wheelchair Transfer Injuries
- Elderly Wandering & Elopement
- Elderly Sexual Assault & Abuse
- Dehydration & Malnutrition
- Poor Hygiene
- Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Amputation
- Choking Deaths
- Wrongful Death
- Financial Elder Abuse
- Nursing Homes
- Assisted Living Facilities
- Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly, or RCFE
- Memory Care Facilities
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Adult Day Care Centers
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Non-Emergency Transport Providers
- Acute Care Hospitals
- 356 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90814
- 888-887-9777