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the biggest challenge in fall cases
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is figuring out how the fall
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occurred and why it occurred the nursing
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homes in those cases are generally
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not forthcoming with the information
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they often try to hide uh witnesses so
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that we can’t find out
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who they are or where they are due to
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turnover in nursing homes
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sometimes the best witnesses in a case
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are now former employees and they claim
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not to know where they’re
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at so fault cases
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can be tricky because not everyone who
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falls in a nursing home has a case
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but we have found that with the fall
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cases the common denominator
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is insufficient staffing for example
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an elder who doesn’t get a round well
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is in their bed they have to go to the
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bathroom they hit the call light
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and no one comes they hit it again no
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one comes
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then they try to get up and they fall
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and they break a hip
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again had they had sufficient staffing
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they could have come answered the call
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bell accompanied the elder to the
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restroom
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and so that’s what can be tricky in
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these cases is just getting the real
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story why did this really happen
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was it a busted call light was it that
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there was insufficient staff so the
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elder was allowed to wander aimlessly
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through the place
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at night and we’ve had cases like that
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where the elders found
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two stories later at four in the morning
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on the ground with a broken hip