Category Archives: Bed Sores

McGowan, Hood & Felder, LLC has represented numerous clients in regard to personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits against nursing home (and assisted living) facilities.  Neglect, such as the types listed below, in a long-term healthcare setting can lead to painful injuries and death. Pressure Sores Pressure sores or “bedsores” are caused by unrelieved pressure, typically on the bony areas of the body, e.g. tailbone, heels, elbows, etc. in bedridden patients resulting in damage to the underlying tissue.  Most bedsores are preventable.  A nursing home must develop and maintain a pressure ulcer prevention program. Preventive measures include turning and repositioning schedules, pressure relief mattresses or pads, regular skin care and assessment, proper hygiene, proper toileting, adequate nutrition, and wound care. Failure of the care planners to properly assess and plan for prevention or treatment of bedsores, as well as failure of staff to provide the care and services required by the…
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McGowan, Hood & Felder, LLC has handled numerous actions involving complex legal matters in South Carolina and outside the state.  Attorneys with McGowan, Hood and Felder, LLC have represented clients involving construction litigation, catastrophic injury, business litigation, class action and multi district litigation. What if you could spend a few moments thinking about drafting a complaint, and then, with a couple of keystrokes, find exactly the go-by you needed? What if your staff had time to “tag” every work product document with keywords? What if your computer silently, constantly, indexed your document files by keyword and by full text? And what if finding that elusive complaint were as easy as using Google? Chances are, you would be working for a large firm with unlimited resources. What if you feel like you do not have the time to learn about expensive programs and acronyms like DM, KM, and CRM. So what if…
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McGowan, Hood, and Felder, LLC is one of the most experienced medical malpractice law firms in the Southeast. Medical Malpractice can come in almost any form from missed test results, to ignorant physicians, to nurses who do not follow doctor’s orders. After handling so many cases, we can put most malpractice into three categories; 1.  Good people working under bad systems 2.  Good people having a bad day 3.  Just plain incompetent and uncaring providers The first – a bad system can take the form of a lack of fail safes in the communication systems. For instance, if an x-ray result gets missed, the system is usually defective. When that happens, it is all participants in the systems fault. This usually comes up in cases where there are missed labs, x-rays, or consults. The second – good people on a bad day is more difficult to prevent. In these situations,…
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