Professional Liability – Long-Term Care Facilities
Comprehensive Counsel for Long-Term Care Providers
Bassford Remele’s Long-Term Care practice provides comprehensive legal services to providers, operators, and stakeholders in the long-term care industry. We understand the unique regulatory, operational, and litigation challenges faced by nursing homes, assisted living facilities, continuing retirement communities, community-based providers, other senior housing providers, home health, hospice, and nurses. We have significant experience representing clients in a variety of long-term care-related matters, including both investigations and claims involving injury, death, sexual abuse, and neglect.
Decades of Experience and Trusted Relationships
For several decades, our attorneys have built wide-ranging knowledge in this area of the law, along with a strong reputation with clients, judges, and opposing counsel — relationships that can be valuable in any case. Our team is committed to helping clients navigate this complex landscape with practical, compliant, and business-focused solutions.
Representative Cases
- Representation of skilled nursing facility’s staff, obtaining a defense jury verdict in a pressure wound case.
- Representation of long-term care facility, obtaining dismissal of a claim for alleged violations of a resident’s rights under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act. Fiers v. La Crosse Cty., 132 F. Supp. 3d 1111 (W.D. Wis. 2015).
- Representation of long-term care facility’s staff, obtaining an award finding no liability in an alleged physical and sexual abuse of a nursing home resident.
- Representation of long-term care facility, obtaining a decision reversing the trial court’s voluntary dismissal and awarding summary judgment. Butts v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc’y, 802 N.W.2d 839 (Minn. App. 2011).
