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Marian Rosen has dedicated a considerable amount of her time to advocating for Nursing Home residents and their families. She has been a featured speaker at the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, South Texas College of Law and many of the United Senior Advocates 2K Conferences. Some of the topics that Marian Rosen has introduced to attendees at the above listed conferences include: Issues involving nursing homes and elderly clients, Nursing Home Litigation - Representing the Elderly Client, The Silent Crime - Sexual Assault on Women in Nursing Homes and the Community, and Evaluating a Nursing Home From a Litigator's View.
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Significant Nursing Home Case Recoveries
$1.8 million - fractured hip and nursing home neglect
$1.4 million - nursing home abuse
$850,000 - decubitus ulcer
$525,000 - urological problems
$180,000 - medication error
Client confidentiality prevents a description of each case
Marian Rosen has not only been a featured speaker at many National conferences but has also been quoted in the Texas news and National press for her active involvement in hundreds of Nursing Home Abuse cases.
The Wall Street Journal article stated that, "After handling her own mother's lawsuit against a nursing home in 1996, Ms. Rosen says, 'One thing I vowed to myself was that I was going to clean up the industry.'" Her cases ". . .make her one of the most active of lawyers suing nursing homes."
Derick Rill of the Houston Post wrote that she was "ranked by her peers in 1985 as one of the city's top 10 lawyers." He also reported Ms. Rosen's philosophy that "you have to believe in what you're doing. If your heart's not in it, you won't be very effective."
In an article in the Houston Chronicle, Leslie Sowers wrote about Ms. Rosen's experiences with her own mother, Ethel Sirote:
Marian Rosen worked hard to make sure her mother, Ethel Sirote, received good care. In the process, Rosen became an advocate for better nursing home care.
"Time after time, when I came to visit, her bedside table was placed just out of reach," says daughter Marian Rosen. She couldn't help wondering whether the negligence was deliberate. Sirote's distress over her eyeglasses and water was real, and troublesome, but minor compared to the pressure sores she developed.
Rosen also believes that her mother's hip fracture could have been avoided if the staff had noticed Sirote walking down the hall shortly after taking a sleeping medication.
When Sirote's health had improved enough that she no longer needed the constant services of a nurse, she moved her back to her old apartment with her disabled son and Rosen hired a caretaker for them.
Although Rosen became frustrated in her dealings with nursing homes, she hasn't given up the fight. Instead, nursing home abuse and neglect have become part of her law practice. Her clients' horror stories keep her working for solutions.