North Carolina Nursing Home Medication Errors Lawyer

North Carolina Nursing Home Medication Errors Attorney

Nursing home corporations often maintain low staff levels in order to maximize profits. As a result, some nursing homes overmedicate their residents, especially those with dementia, by giving them antipsychotic drugs inappropriately, in order to make them easier for staff to handle. This allows the nursing homes to assign fewer staff to each patient. A North Carolina Nursing Home Medication Errors Lawyer at Pleasant Law, PLLC can help you hold these facilities accountable and protect your loved ones from such harmful practices.

The use of antipsychotic medications for the purpose of chemically restraining patients is a violation of North Carolina and federal law. These powerful drugs cannot be used solely to make patients easier to handle or to enable staff to direct their attention elsewhere. They can only be used when authorized by a physician to treat a relevant and documented medical condition, and in the proper dosages.

Nursing homes are also of course required to ensure residents get the proper medications, and in the right doses. Failure to administer or manage a resident’s medications can lead to injury or death.

Contact Pleasant Law, PLLC, today to schedule your free initial consultation with a trustworthy North Carolina nursing home medication errors lawyer.