My mother passed away partly due to a nursing home. Contact me for more info.?

She had been staying there for a while, and we tried out best to put her in a good home. She had a stroke a a little less than a year before and was hospitalized, when she could no longer be kept there she was sent to a Nursing Home located close to our home. She had not shown much improvement and it had already been a while since entering the Nursing Home. One day, apparently, an employee had made a mistake and her feeding tube fell out. They tried to place it back in by hand, and without telling anyone left her alone. They put it in wrong and her lungs (I think, my sister wouldn't really tell me.) actually filled with the food! Well, this cause many problems, and we took her out and had to place her in a hospice where she later died. My question is, is there anything I can do? My sister, it seems didn't make a large effort to do something except call one place and they rejected the case. I was wondering, is this worth pursuing still? If so, I need help. If you need more info tell me

i would pursue the case because there are other people that are in that same nursing home and something needs to be done about it before something esle happens to someone esles loved one and iam SORRY for your loss but i use to sit with people in a nursing home to make sure nothing would happen to there loved ones and you wouldn't belive some of the stuff i have seen .GOOD LUCK AND I WOULDN'T GIVE UP

Find out what agency in your state oversees nursing homes, and ask to speak to an investigator. Be assertive. Contact your state senator or district representative. Was your sister legal guardian? You may need her cooperation.

I would contact the nursing home and get a copy of your mother's records (they are required by law to provide a copy to her next if kin if asked) and then take the records to someone who understands the medical health field to review her records. Your story sounds bad, but it also sounds like pieces are missing. Depending on what those missing pieces are, you may or may not have a case to follow through with.

Please check it out though, because if you don't you will always wonder. If there ends up being no wrong doing, atleast you'll know.