Archive for December, 2005
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005.
Government Accountability Office. GAO-06-117 Highlights-PDF | PDF]
Since 1998, GAO has issued numerous reports on nursing home quality and safety that identified significant weaknesses in federal and state oversight. Under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), states conduct annual nursing home inspections, known as surveys, to assess ... [More >>]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005.
Edwardsville, IL -- Madison County State’s Attorney William A. Mudge said he hopes the quality of nursing home care and treatment of seniors will improve because of an Elder Abuse Committee he formed to help cases of criminal abuse of the elderly work through the court system.
The committee’s first case ... [More >>]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005.
Edwardsville, IL -- Two nurses from Glen Carbon and one from Collinsville were accused in an indictment Thursday of neglecting a long-term care patient who was suffering from diabetes and eventually lost a leg.
Patricia Revelle, 35, and her mother, Rose Revelle, 69, both of Glen Carbon, and Linda Dellamano, 51, ... [More >>]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005.
Lawrenceville, GA - A Lawrenceville nursing home accused of neglect by family members of three residents who died has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a state and federal investigation, federal authorities in Atlanta announced Thursday.
In the agreement, the Lawrenceville franchise of Life Care Center of America agreed to ... [More >>]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005.
American, Fork, UT - As a condition to a preliminary plea bargain agreement being floated by prosecutors, a 33-year-old man who admitted to police to sexually abusing 10 women at a nursing home waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Jesus Partida of Pleasant Grove, in waiving the hearing, acknowledges ... [More >>]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005.
Lynn, MA - The last of 20 Ann Carroll nursing home patients will be moved to new residences this week, one month after the state launched an investigation into sexual assault accusations in the Johnson Street facility.
Robert Griffin, the attorney named receiver by a judge ... [More >>]
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Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Tallahassee, FL - A certified nursing assistant has been arrested for abusing an elderly, disabled resident of a Miami Beach nursing home. The arrest of Emily Singleton, 60, culminates a two-month abuse investigation by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
The investigation began when the Department of Children and Families ... [More >>]
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Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Napa, CA - If any of your readers has a question about the long-term care facilities in Napa County, including both skilled nursing and residential care facilities (assisted living and board and care homes), we can be reached at the numbers above. We also receive reports of suspected elder abuse ... [More >>]
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Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Gwynn Oak, MD - Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced today that Lynette Dudley Richardson, an owner of an assisted living facility in Baltimore County, was charged by the Grand Jury for Baltimore County in a ten-count indictment in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on theft and ... [More >>]
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Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Hagerstown, MD - The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is shutting down Clearview Nursing Home on Downsville Pike, citing serious concerns about its residents' health and safety.
The move forces 36 residents to find new homes one week before Christmas.
The department issued an emergency suspension of license Wednesday for ... [More >>]
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