Bedsore & Nursing Home Neglect Attorney | Pennsylvania & New Jersey
A bedsore that reaches the bone doesn't appear on its own. It forms when a nursing home fails to turn, clean, and care for your loved one, sometimes for days, weeks, or months at a time. Attorney Brian P. Murphy has spent 20+ years holding Pennsylvania and New Jersey nursing homes accountable for exactly this kind of neglect.
The Hospital Told You What the Nursing Home Wouldn't.
Most families don't find out about a bedsore from the nursing home. They find out in the ER, after a fall, an infection, or a sudden decline. An emergency room doctor lifts the gown, and there it sits. A wound the size of a baseball. Down to the bone. No one at the nursing home ever said a word.
A hospice nurse told you. Or you lifted the sheet during a visit and saw the wound yourself. The funeral home called.
You already know something went terribly wrong. You aren't imagining anything. And you aren't overreacting.
A stage-3 or stage-4 bedsore remains one of the clearest signs of nursing home neglect. The federal government classifies hospital-acquired bedsores as "never events," injuries that should never occur with proper care. When these wounds develop in a nursing home, the cause is almost always the same: Someone wasn't turned every two hours, someone was left lying in soiled briefs, and someone looked the other way.
"They Said It Didn't Happen Here."
If any of this sounds familiar, you likely have a case:
Nursing homes that hide bedsores often falsify turning logs and medical records to cover their tracks. Brian Murphy knows where to look, what to request, and how to expose the truth, because he has done this for more than two decades.
Bedsores Do Not Happen on Their Own. Neglect Causes Them.
You have likely heard that bedsores are inevitable in elderly patients. Nursing homes want you to believe this. Here is the medical reality:
Bedsores develop when staff fails to reposition a patient on a regular schedule, typically every two hours. When nursing home staff skip turns, leave residents sitting in soiled briefs, fails to provide adequate nutrition, or withholds proper pressure-relieving equipment, skin begins to break down. Left untreated, the wound advances through stages: from redness, to an open sore, to exposed muscle, and finally to a crater reaching the bone.
A stage-4 bedsore doesn't develop overnight. Sustained, repeated neglect over weeks or months produces wounds of this severity. When a wound reaches that depth, multiple caregivers, across multiple shifts, failed to provide basic care. This isn't bad luck. This is a pattern.
20+ Years. One Focus. Your Family.
Brian P. Murphy isn't a personal injury generalist who takes a nursing home case now and then. He has devoted his entire legal career, more than 20 years, exclusively to fighting nursing home abuse and neglect in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
You work directly with Brian, not a paralegal, not intake staff. He personally handles every case. He comes to your home if needed. He returns phone calls. He explains the process in plain language.
"Brian Murphy was invaluable in helping me through a very difficult time. Hiring him on behalf of my mom was the best thing I ever did. He truly cared about what had happened to my mom and worked hard to negotiate a fair settlement."
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This Is Not About Greed. This Is About Accountability.
You didn't cause this. You trusted a facility to provide care. They failed. The decision to hold them accountable isn't greed. Accountability is the only path to answers, to forcing change, and to making sure this doesn't happen to someone else's loved one.
Lawsuits are often the only mechanism forcing nursing homes to change their practices. When the Pennsylvania Department of Health dismissed 92% of Philadelphia nursing home complaints between 2012 and 2014, lawsuits—not regulators—held facilities accountable. When South Jersey Extended Care was understaffed by more than 50% every single day, legal action and an investigation by the NJ State Comptroller finally shut the facility down.
Brian Murphy takes every case on a contingency-fee basis. You pay nothing upfront and you owe nothing unless he wins your case. The consultation is free. The case review is free. The only cost of inaction is the expiration of your legal deadline.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nursing Home Neglect in Philadelphia and New Jersey Is a Documented Crisis.
This isn't a problem that happens "somewhere else." The evidence sits in the public record, right here:
Brian Murphy has litigated cases against many of the worst facilities in both states. He knows the local ownership groups, the patterns, and the regulators, because this is the only work he has done for over two decades.
One Phone Call. That's All It Takes.
You don't need to have all the answers. You don't need medical records, legal documents, or proof of anything. Tell Brian what happened. He takes it from there.
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