Health Care & Hospital Law
Apr. 20, 2011
Suit Over Caregiver Negligence Goes to Trial
A wrongful death lawsuit that goes to trial this week against an in-home caregiver calls attention to the largely unregulated industry of caretakers that fall below the status of nurses.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When it came time to get help caring for his elderly father who suffered from dementia, William Parks turned to Gratefull Home Care Inc.
The Los Angeles-based agency, which provided in-home care services, advertised its caregivers as trained, competent, experienced and vetted by a background check.
Parks said he only found out that wasn't true after his father was dead fr...
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