When you discover a loved one in a nursing home suffers from bedsores, your first instinct may be to remove them from the nursing home immediately. Yet an immediate change…

The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone’s lives in different ways. For residents of South Carolina nursing homes, however, the pandemic exposed them to unique risks. The result was that thousands of residents…

South Carolina has a high population of aging Americans, making up approximately 17 percent of the state’s total population. While some families can care for loved ones in their own…

Over the past few decades, the number of South Carolina nursing home admissions has been on the rise. Many families would prefer to care for aging loved ones in their…

In this season of giving, the team at Steinberg Law Firm can think of no better group to support than our senior citizens, who’ve lived much of this year in…

Nursing home abuse and coronavirus (COVID-19) have something in common: negligence. As the virus spread across South Carolina, numerous nursing home facilities and elderly care homes failed to properly protect…

A nursing home in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, Heartland Health and Rehabilitation Care Center on Eagle Landing Boulevard in Hanahan, reportedly now has more coronavirus cases than any other nursing home…

Reporting from The Washington Post links the severity of coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes with those facilities’ failures to follow required infection control procedures. Among the violations reported in the…

According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, up to 10% of all residents of nursing homes or assisted care facilities have been abused in some form in the last…

Two wrongful death lawsuits were recently filed against Teays Valley Center, a nursing home in Putnam, after two of the home’s residents died. The first lawsuit was filed by the…