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Nursing Home Abuse NewsArchive for January, 2006Nursing Home Abuse InvestigationWednesday, January 18th, 2006. Evansville, IN - Henderson police are investigating allegations of abuse at a nursing home. Carolyn Doepel's family asked police to investigate after they discovered bruises on the 64-year-old's torso. The nursing home's director says those bruises are the result of medication that made the patient more susceptible to bruising, and that an ... [More >>] Nursing Home Neglect?Monday, January 16th, 2006. Boston, MA - "I honest to God believed he was going to get better." Mary Curry thought her husband Lou would make a full recovery after hip replacement surgery. "I really thought he was going to get good care." But she says the care he got was far from good at ... [More >>] Nursing home abuse suspect scheduled for trialMonday, January 16th, 2006. Iron Mountain, MI - A woman who authorities say verbally abused a patient at a Kingsford nursing home is heading to trial. The trial for 42-year-old Janice Marie Dal Santo on one count of misdemeanor patient abuse is set for January 30th. Authorities say she suspended from Manorcare Health Services nursing ... [More >>] Lawsuit alleges negligence in death at Evansville nursing homeSaturday, January 14th, 2006. Evansville, IN - A nursing home where a patient's death this fall was recently ruled a homicide is being sued over the 2003 death of another patient. The daughter of 76-year-old Ernestine Rock, who died at the Brentwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in March 2003, filed the wrongful death lawsuit. Her lawsuit, ... [More >>] Nursing Home Cited for Abuse AllegationsFriday, January 13th, 2006. Allentown, PA - The nursing home run by Northampton County has been cited by the state after allegations of abuse. A State Department of Health report says the Gracedale home in Lower Nazareth Township was lax in reporting an alleged incident back in October. Read the full text of the article ... [More >>] Nurses Aid Charged With Abuse of Elderly PatientWednesday, January 11th, 2006. Wichita Falls, TX - A Wichita Falls nurses aide is out on bond after a 76-year-old nursing home patient reported he was beaten. The River Oaks Care Center patient told police 45-year-old Barara Johnson Walton became very rough while bathing him and he cried out in pain. He said Walton ... [More >>] Possible nursing home abuse investigated at county’s largest nursing homeTuesday, January 10th, 2006. Santa Barbara, CA - The district attorney's office is investigating possible elder abuse at La Cumbre Senior Living Concepts, the county's largest nursing home. The facility had its Medicare and Medi-Cal funding revoked because of a variety of state inspection violations. Deputy District Attorney Mary Barron, chief of the elder abuse ... [More >>] County to sue nursing homeTuesday, January 10th, 2006. San Mateo, CA - San Mateo County is suing the corporation owning a Redwood City nursing home on behalf of a 50-year-old disabled woman who was severely scalded in 2004 after a Liberian worker left her in a too-hot shower unattended. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from ResCare for Theresa Rodriguez, ... [More >>] N.Y. nursing home in talks with stateSaturday, January 7th, 2006. Rochester, NY - Following an investigation that led to the arrests of 14, the New York state attorney general wants a Rochester, N.Y., nursing home closed. The New York State Health Department confirmed late Friday that it is in discussions with with the owner and his management of the Jennifer Matthew ... [More >>] Nursing home assistant charged with resident abuseSaturday, January 7th, 2006. Gaffney, SC - A certified nursing assistant is charged with abusing a nursing home resident here, police said. Bessie Moore, 47, of Gaffney, was charged Thursday with abusing a vulnerable adult at the Cherokee-County-owned Peachtree Centre, where she had worked since July. A co-worker reported that Moore verbally mistreated a ... [More >>] Bad Behavior has blocked 614 access attempts in the last 7 days. |
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