The Lexington Herald-Leader has an interesting story today about the follow-up prosecutions to serious violations issued to nursing homes in Kentucky. The paper examined 107 cases in which nursing homes and their employees were issued Type-A citations and found that only seven were followed up by local or state prosecutors for criminal cases.
Unfortunately this low [...]
Trying to determine if bruises found on an elder are caused by accident or intentionally inflicted can be a challenge. This study titled Bruising in the Geriatric Population is useful in understanding how and where elders bruise themselves. One of the more interesting findings of the study was that 89% of the bruises were [...]
TMZ.com is reporting that the Chief Medical Examiner in Middlesex County has ruled that Daniel Kerrigan died from cardiac dysrhythmia after suffering a neck injury during a physical altercation. Police arrested Nancy Kerrigan’s brother Mark after they were called to the elder Kerrigan’s residence. Police reported Mark Kerrigan was intoxicated and had to be pepper [...]
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.
The father of former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan died this weekend after a fight with his son. Police arrested 45 year old Mark Kerrigan for Assault and Battery resulting in harm to an elder after Mark told police his 70 year old father Daniel fell during a fight over the use of a telephone.
The [...]
TriCities.com is reporting that state inspectors paid an unannounced visit to the National Healthcare Corporation nursing home in Bristol Virginia in October and found that an alarming number of employees did not know they were mandatory reporters when they witness or suspect any form of abuse at the facility. The inspector noted that twenty-one of [...]
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that bothers Christopher Eugene Hansen and Michael Levi Hansen Jr were sentenced to one year in jail for abusing their grandmother, The brothers pled guilty to kicking, punching and urinating on their 66 year old grandmother. In addition to the one year in jail the judge gave the bothers a [...]
Two Utah brothers have pled guilty to assaulting and urinating on their grandmother while she was taking a shower. Christopher Eugene Hansen, and Michael Levi Hansen Jr., both in their early twenties, pleaded guilty to abuse of an elder adult a Class A misdemeanor; lewdness, a Class B misdemeanor; and domestic criminal mischief, a Class [...]
On August 5th Wilmington, Illinois police arrested Ilse M. Krone and her son Harold A. VanDuyne in the death of Krone’s 91 year old mother Catherine Bautino. Police say the grandmother had been dead for some time when they responded to the home the three shared at 810 S. Kankakee St. in Wilmington.
The Will County [...]
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 [...]