Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Friday, September 30th, 2005. Des Moines, IA - A central Iowa nursing home worker has been charged with raping an elderly disabled woman who was left in his care. Forty-four-year-old Frank Daugard Junior is charged with sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. The alleged incident happened Tuesday night at the Adair Community Health Center.Read the full ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 29th, 2005. Washington Court House, OH - Investigators are examining a report of a fatal assault at a Central Ohio nursing home. The problem began as an argument over a TV set between two roommates at Carlton Manor nursing home on Sept. 2, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported. Police are investigating the ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 29th, 2005. Lansing, MI - Attorney General Mike Cox announced today that he has charged a Kingsford Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) with abuse of a 99-year-old female nursing home resident. In a separate case, Cox charged a former Sault Ste. Marie nursing home administrator with failing to report injury and neglect of ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 29th, 2005. Irvine, KY - Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced the indictment of two nursing assistants for multiple counts of abuse at Irvine Health and Rehabilitation Center. The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Division say the two nursing assistants, 27-year-old Lisa Kilburn and 30-year-old Kim Congleton abused elderly and medically fragile ... [More >>]
Monday, September 26th, 2005. Newark, OH - For the second time this month, a nursing home employee in Newark has been accused of harming someone in their care. A 47-year-old Central Ohio man is accused of having sexual contact with a 98-year-old woman he was supposed to be caring for. Earlier this month, another employee was ... [More >>]
Sunday, September 25th, 2005. Garretson, SD - Five months after its director was stripped of her license by state regulators, a Garretson nursing home now faces a lawsuit alleging abuse and neglect at the home. Beverly Whaley of Flandreau, daughter of Anne Bjerke, filed the lawsuit against Palisade Manor Nursing Home and two former employees. ... [More >>]
Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Dallas, TX - Texas regulators said Friday they don't have copies of nursing home evacuation plans and don't know whether too many homes rely on too few transportation contractors. The admission, following a charter bus explosion that killed elderly evacuees and days of freeway gridlock, added to mounting questions about state ... [More >>]
Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Corporate owners such as the ones that run McAllen Nursing Center have little to fear financially if a vocational nurse or a poorly trained nurse’s aide negligently kills a patient. When Martinez family members tried to file a lawsuit following Noe Sr.’s death, they ran hard into one of Texas’ most ... [More >>]
Saturday, September 17th, 2005. blockquote>MI - Michigan is taking the extra step to protect some of its most vulnerable residents, the elderly and disabled, with a bipartisan package of bills that would require anybody providing care for them to undergo background checks. It’s a sensible approach. News media — The Blade included — have presented ... [More >>]
Friday, September 16th, 2005. OK - The proposed fines against Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. of Sallisaw are being appealed and the more than $400,000 in fines remain in dispute. A year ago, the state health department announced it was seeking the fines against a Hominy nursing home owned by the Sallisaw company where investigators found ... [More >>]
