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Nursing Home Abuse NewsArchive for October, 2005Personal care home owners say changes in state regulations won’t help residentsSunday, October 30th, 2005. Pittsburgh, PA - Welfare department officials held explanatory workshops around the state over the summer for administrators of the more than 1,600 personal care homes. The homes range from eight-bed, mom-and-pop dwellings run on a shoestring to the large, assisted-living facilities that woo affluent suburbanites as they become frail. The operators ... [More >>] Mental Testing For Man Accused Of Nursing Home SexFriday, October 28th, 2005. American Fork, UT - A man accused of sexually abusing ten elderly women in an American Fork nursing home has been ordered to undergo a mental-competency exam. Police say 33-year-old Jesus Partida confessed in July to sexually assaulting the women during the two years he worked as a certified nursing assistant ... [More >>] Lubbock nurse arrested for slapping elderly patientsThursday, October 27th, 2005. Lubbock, TX - Lubbock County Sheriff's deputies and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot's criminal officers arrested a nurse at a nursing home in Brownfield Oct. 20 on warrants connected to a September indictment on two counts of injury to disabled persons. Tiffany Cunningham, a certified nurse aide employed at the Bender ... [More >>] Nursing home cited after deathTuesday, October 25th, 2005. Lorain, OH - A local nursing home was cited by the Ohio Department of Health after an 90-year-old woman fell down several stairs in her wheelchair and died, according to an Ohio Department of Health spokeswoman. Autumn Aegis Nursing Retirement Community, 1130 Tower Blvd., was cited for failure to ensure that ... [More >>] Nursing home fires nine amid allegations of resident abuseFriday, October 21st, 2005. Hanover, IN - State officials have temporarily banned a southern Indiana nursing home from admitting new residents after investigating a series of abuse incidents, including one in which a 79-year-old woman was beaten and left with a bloody face. A report by the Indiana Department of Health found that four Hanover ... [More >>] Handling Nursing Home WoesFriday, October 21st, 2005. Rochester, NY - Fourteen employees of the Jennifer Matthew Nursing and Rehabilitation Center have been suspended without pay while the New York State attorney general's office investigates the Portland Avenue nursing home. A hidden camera there allegedly recorded video of the workers falsifying a patient's medical records and other documents. The ... [More >>] Nursing home assault charges filedFriday, October 21st, 2005. Berlin, MD - A caretaker at a Berlin nursing home has been charged with sexually assaulting a 90-year-old patient, the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation reported this week. Michael Jermain Bolling of Salisbury was charged on Tuesday with a second- and third-degree sexual offense, unnatural perverted sexual practice, vulnerable adult abuse. ... [More >>] Don’t neglect scrutiny of care for the aged: State Cuts Too Deep Into Ranks Of Nursing Home InspectorsThursday, October 20th, 2005. CA - More than 100,000 Californians are cared for in nursing homes today. The number of Californians 65 and older is expected to double in the next 20 years. Who's looking out for them? That question is harder to answer than it ought to be. The elderly and their families rely on ... [More >>] Troubled nursing home under investigation againThursday, October 20th, 2005. Rochester, NY - A Rochester nursing home cited in the past for violations is under investigation again. W-H-A-M reports a hidden camera recorded 14 workers falsifying medical records at the Jennifer Matthew Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The workers were suspended without pay pending the results of the attorney general's investigation, but no ... [More >>] Texas Advocates for Nursing Home Residents: Hearings on Mariner Sale Must Be Held; Mississippi AG Warns Nursing Home Sale Trends Hinder Enforcement of StandardsThursday, October 20th, 2005. Austin, TX - The president of the Coastal Bend Chapter, Texas Advocates for Nursing Home Residents, urged Texas lawmakers on Thursday to hold hearings into whether recent nursing home ownership changes are putting the state's 85,000 elderly residents at risk. Libby Edwards, of Corpus Christi, said her organization is concerned by ... [More >>] Bad Behavior has blocked 224 access attempts in the last 7 days. |
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