Too many lawsuits or bad nursing home care? What's behind bankruptcy, injuries, deaths at Texas-base

Too many lawsuits or bad nursing home care? What's behind bankruptcy, injuries, deaths at Texas-based chain

A trail of blood and brains led nursing home staff in Houston to a room where a mentally ill resident had beaten his two roommates to death.

A 45-year-old man who had been missing for hours at his Kentucky nursing home was found dead in a stairwell, his wheelchair on top of his chest.

And residents were left for hours in dirty diapers, clothes and sheets as they waited for help at seven New Mexico nursing facilities, the state’s attorney general alleges.

A stream of documented complaints from three separate states flows back to one nursing home operator: Preferred Care of Plano, which filed for bankruptcy in November.

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When contacted by The Dallas Morning News, Preferred Care’s bankruptcy lawyer, Stephen McCartin, reiterated that point.

“It is in the best interest of citizens to have tort reform. That clearly reduces contingency-fee, ambulance-chasing lawsuits. It absolutely does have an effect,” he said Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2018/01/25/preferred-care-texas-based-nursing-home-elder-neglect-injury-death-bankruptcy

I call bullshit on Stephen McCartin. It is in the best interest of citizens to receive proper care when they are in nursing homes. Having a civil justice system that allows residents and their families to address negligence is more important than protecting a company that fails to provide the services that are the mission of that business.