Are you looking for a nursing home bedsore lawyer in Long Island, NY?
At Isaacson, Schiowitz & Korson, LLP, we are trusted nursing home bedsore lawyers serving clients across Long Island and the surrounding area.
If your mother or father developed a bedsore while living in a Long Island nursing facility, the wound is rarely the whole story. Pressure injuries take days to form. They leave a record in the chart long before anyone calls the family.
Our firm has represented injury victims and their families throughout New York since 1978. A Long Island, NY nursing home bedsore lawyer from Isaacson, Schiowitz & Korson, LLP can pull the treatment records, the repositioning logs, and the staffing data, then tell you whether the facility failed this resident. Consultations cost nothing.
Nursing Home Bedsore Lawyer Long Island, NY
Nassau and Suffolk counties contain 78 skilled nursing facilities between them, 37 in Nassau and 41 in Suffolk, according to state ombudsman reporting. A bedsore, also called a pressure ulcer or decubitus ulcer, is a wound that forms when unrelieved pressure cuts off blood flow to skin covering a bony area. Tailbones, hips, heels, and shoulder blades are the common sites.
A nursing home bedsore attorney investigates whether that pressure was allowed to continue when it did not have to be. We obtain the chart, the turn-and-reposition logs, the wound care flow sheets, and the payroll-based staffing files each facility reports to federal regulators. A nurse or physician then reads all of it against the wound’s own timeline, because the stage of a pressure injury is a rough clock. It tells you roughly how long the skin was under load before anyone intervened.
Types of Nursing Home Bedsore Cases We Handle in Long Island
Bedsore claims on Long Island rarely arrive alone. Under a care plan that is actually followed, bedsores are preventable, and the understaffing that lets a wound go unturned tends to produce falls, weight loss, and missed treatment in the same building. These are the matters our attorneys handle for Nassau and Suffolk families.
- Stage III and IV pressure ulcers. These wounds extend through the full thickness of the skin and often into muscle, tendon, or bone. A facility that reports a Stage IV wound as newly discovered is usually describing a breakdown that began weeks earlier. We build the case around when the skin first changed, not when the family was told.
- Sepsis and bone infection. An open pressure wound is a direct route into the bloodstream. When a resident is hospitalized with sepsis or osteomyelitis, we trace the infection back to the date the skin broke and to the treatment decisions made in between.
- Unreported wound progression. Families are frequently told about a bedsore only after it has reached an advanced stage. The nursing home records often contain earlier skin assessments that were charted and never communicated to anyone outside the building.
- Malnutrition and dehydration. Skin does not repair itself without protein, calories, and fluid. Weight loss documented alongside a worsening wound usually points to a nutrition plan that existed on paper and nowhere else.
- Slip and fall injuries. Residents who cannot be repositioned safely are frequently the same residents who fall during unassisted transfers. We pursue those claims against Long Island facilities and the companies that operate them.
- Premises liability. Broken bed rails, failing pressure-relief mattresses, and unsafe lift equipment create liability that sits separately from the nursing care itself.
- Wrongful death. When a pressure injury contributes to a resident’s death, the estate can bring a claim. These cases carry their own filing deadline and their own proof requirements.
- Understaffing and supervision failures. Turning a resident every two hours takes people on the floor. We compare a facility’s reported nurse hours against what its own care plans called for, week by week.
Why Choose Isaacson, Schiowitz & Korson, LLP as my Nursing Home Bedsore Lawyer in Long Island, NY?
Litigation Experience Dating Back to 1978
Martin Schiowitz co-founded the firm in 1978 and has been admitted to practice in New York since 1973. His work covers high-stakes personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice matters, and he belongs to the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Jeremy Schiowitz has spent more than 16 years litigating injury cases across New York City and Long Island. He argued the appellate case that changed train platform accident liability in the city, and he has been named a Super Lawyer every year from 2014 through 2025. That depth is what you should expect from a nursing home abuse lawyer in Long Island, NY.
Results in Premises and Negligence Claims
Our attorneys have contributed to firm recoveries of more than $200 million. Premises and negligence results include:
- $1,200,000, premises liability
- $925,000, premises liability
- $700,000, premises liability
- $570,000, premises liability
- $500,000, premises liability
We handle nursing home bedsore cases on contingency fees. Nothing is owed unless we recover money for you.
Understanding Nursing Home Bedsore Cases
Damages, Liability, and Compensation for Nursing Home Bedsore Cases
Liability here rests on ordinary negligence principles. A facility owes its residents a duty of reasonable care, that duty is breached, and harm follows from the breach. New York allows recovery of both economic and non-economic losses, and the three types of damages available in any injury claim apply to pressure wound cases as well.
- Medical costs for wound care, surgical debridement, hospitalization, and antibiotic treatment
- Pain and suffering, which in advanced pressure wounds is often the largest single element
- The cost of moving a resident to a different facility mid-stay
- Loss of enjoyment of life across the months a deep wound takes to close
- Pecuniary damages recoverable by the estate in wrongful death actions under EPTL 5-4.1
New York follows pure comparative negligence, so an award is reduced by whatever share of fault gets assigned to the injured party rather than wiped out entirely. Facilities raise this defense in bedsore cases by pointing to a resident who refused to be turned. A refusal still has to be documented, and the care plan still has to show what the staff did in response.
What Are Important Aspects of a Nursing Home Bedsore Case?
Two questions decide most of these claims. When did the wound begin, and what did the facility do between that date and the day the family found out about it. Families often notice signs of neglect well before any staff member raises the subject.
- Skin assessments from the admission date forward, including Braden scale scoring
- Turning and repositioning documentation, or the conspicuous absence of it
- Photographs, wound measurements, and staging entries in the treatment notes
- Nurse staffing hours measured against resident census for the relevant weeks
- Hospital records from any transfer, which tend to be more candid than facility records
Facilities are required to create and keep this material. When entries are missing, backdated, or inconsistent with the hospital’s findings, that gap becomes evidence in its own right.
What Is The Nursing Home Bedsore Case Timeline?
Most bedsore claims run somewhere between 18 months and three years from intake to resolution. The filing deadline matters first. A negligence claim carries a three-year statute of limitations under CPLR 214. If the claim is pleaded as medical malpractice instead, CPLR 214-a shortens it to two years and six months. A wrongful death action must be commenced within two years of the death.
- Records collection and independent medical review, usually two to four months
- Filing and service of the complaint
- Written discovery and production of the facility’s internal documents
- Depositions of the director of nursing, wound care staff, and certified aides
- Mediation or settlement negotiation, then trial if the offer does not match the injury
What Should You Bring to Your Nursing Home Bedsore Consultation?
Bring whatever you already have. Nothing needs to be organized or complete.
- The admission agreement and any care plan documents the facility gave you
- Photographs of the wound, dated where possible
- Hospital discharge paperwork from any transfer or emergency visit
- Names of staff or administrators you spoke with, along with the dates
- Any written complaint or grievance you filed with the facility
We will review what you bring during the meeting and tell you whether the record supports a claim. If it does not, we will say so directly rather than string the matter along.
Long Island Nursing Home Oversight and Local Resources
New York licenses and inspects every facility in Nassau and Suffolk, and the inspection histories are public. Families checking on a building, either before a placement or during a claim, can start here.
- Nursing home profiles maintained by the state and searchable by county
- Complaint filing through the Department of Health
- Long-term care resources covering services, inspections, and consumer guides
- Federal pressure ulcer data on prevalence among nursing home residents
Nassau County matters are generally filed in Supreme Court in Mineola, and Suffolk County matters in Riverhead.
Reach Out to Isaacson, Schiowitz & Korson, LLP to Schedule a Consultation
Contact us to schedule a free consultation about a Long Island nursing home bedsore claim. We will review what you have, explain which filing deadline applies to your situation, and tell you plainly whether the records support a case. Our attorneys handle these matters on contingency, so nothing is owed unless we recover for you. Most consultations are scheduled within a few business days of your first call.
