While nursing homes are indeed medical facilities that have a duty to care for their patients medical needs, I am always dumbfounded by the number of errors that seem to get routinely made--- many of which have nothing to do with specialized medical skills--- just a lack of plain common sense.

In my minds eye, what frequently puts nursing home errors into a different stratosphere in terms of severity is that many of the errors fail to get detected over an extended period of time and that the victims are people who are already at risk for harm.