California Watch has an an excellent article about California nursing homes that have received millions of dollars under the Nursing Home Quality Care Act of 2004 to pay better wages and hire more staff only to cut back on both.
South Carolina Attorney Michael Jeffcoat has an excellent list of questions to consider when choosing a long term care facility for a loved one. The list can be found on his blog.
The Albert Lea Tribune has an excellent story about a recent lawsuit filed by victims of abuse at the Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea nursing home. Here is an article about the original incident and the arrest of nursing assistants for abuse.
A Brooklyn nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores.
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This is a substantial verdict and the first time a plaintiff has been awarded punitive damages against a nursing home in New York state. [...]
At about 6:00AM on the morning of July 15th employees of the Hillside Plaza Nursing Home in Wells Texas found the body of resident Edna Mae Sides outside the facility. Sides who was 85 and an Alzheimer’s patient, wandered out of the home sometime in the evening.
Authorities say once the body was found nursing home [...]
Keiko Douglas, a laundry worker at the Park Place Health Center in Great Falls Montana, was arrested July 21st for allegedly stealing pain medication patches right off the resident’s arm. According to court records nurses at the facility noticed pain patches which should have been on the resident’s arm went missing just after Douglas [...]
Bed sores, pressure sores or what are defined medically as decubitus ulcers, are common in elderly patients and can be life threatening if left untreated. Decubitus ulcers are caused by prolonged pressure on one area of the body. This pressure results in a lack of blood flow to the skin in that area, which can [...]
If you plan to place a loved one in a nursing home or assisted living facility these are the top five things you need to know.
1. Who owns the nursing home?
Ask for the name of the person who owns the nursing home. If you are told the facility is owned by a company then ask [...]
An indictment unsealed Tuesday in Rensselaer County Court, charged Robert Gunderson with first-degree sexual abuse, forcible touching, and third-degree sexual abuse of a resident of the Northwoods Rehabilitation Center in Troy, NY. The abuse is alleged to have taken place in late 2007 and early 2008 while Gunderson was employed as a CNA at [...]
A federal grand jury has indicted Karen Priscilla Jones, 48, on charges of aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, wire fraud, possessing fraudulent identity documents and forging endorsement on a U.S. Treasury check. A copy of the indictment can be found here.
Jones is accused of stealing the identities of nine residents while working as a [...]