Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Sunday, May 29th, 2005. Angels wanted: Earn your wings. No pay, but extremely gratifying. That is the battle cry of the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, which is urgently seeking 200 volunteer ombudsmen to look out for seniors living in nursing homes, adult residences and assisted living facilities throughout the city. Compassionate volunteers of any ... [More >>]
Friday, May 27th, 2005. PROVIDENCE, RI -- The death last year of Germine Morsilli, the 87-year-old former resident of Hillside Nursing Home in Providence, helped shine a spotlight on some of the state’s poorly operated nursing homes. House Majority Leader Gordon Fox, said of Morsilli, "How does someone in this century die of bedsores?" ... [More >>]
Monday, May 23rd, 2005. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the arrest of a registered nurse and two nurse’s aides employed at a Williamsville, N.Y., nursing home for illegally tying an elderly senile patient to his wheelchair and leaving him unattended. The two aides were also charged with similarly mistreating a second patient. Appearing ... [More >>]
Monday, May 23rd, 2005. A licensed practical nurse convicted after trial of molesting a bedridden female patient at Monroe Community Hospital (SNF) has been sentenced to 3½ years in state prison. Michael Edwards, 46, of Irondequoit was convicted in March 2005 of first-degree sexual abuse and wilful violation of health laws. He was sentenced on ... [More >>]
Saturday, May 21st, 2005. A dozen former employees of an Escondido nursing home were improperly charged with elder abuse under state regulations meant to apply to owners rather than their workers, an appeals court said in a tentative ruling yesterday. The court said the state Attorney General's Office erred in filing criminal charges against workers ... [More >>]
Friday, May 20th, 2005. SAGAMORE HILLS -- You put your loved one in a nursing home hoping he or she is safe from harm. Yet, each year, 35,000 residents are injured or killed in a nursing home fall. Even in the best facilities, falls are common. But in some cases, could they be prevented? Carl ... [More >>]
Friday, May 20th, 2005. BEAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- The Beaver County District Attorney’s Office is investigating allegations of physical and mental abuse of nursing home patients by employees. Officials said former employees of the Beaver Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center reported that in one incident a supervisor would draw caricatures of patients and make fun ... [More >>]
Thursday, May 19th, 2005. BATON ROUGE, La. Nursing home patients' ability to sue for damages for certain violations of their rights, such as being a victim of mental and physical abuse, would be restored under a bill approved by a House committee. Supporters say residents currently can only sue to get nursing homes to stop ... [More >>]
Sunday, May 15th, 2005. Brooklyn, NY - A State Health Department inspection of Ruby Weston's Marcus Garvey Nursing Home has found serious flaws at the Crown Heights, Brooklyn, facility, including a chronic failure to tend to many patients' basic needs. One man was found sitting in urine-soaked clothes for nearly an hour. He wasn't changed ... [More >>]
Friday, May 13th, 2005. Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Fourteenth Circuit State Attorney Steve Meadows announced the arrest of a nurse employed by a Holmes County nursing home on charges of neglect of an elderly adult. Sheila Bush, 52, of Bonifay, was arrested following an investigation by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, ... [More >>]
