Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, April 29th, 2006. Fort Wayne, IN - A national report examining nursing home abuse and neglect, released Friday, reveals understaffing as the underlying reason for continued problems. “The Faces of Neglect: Behind the Closed Doors of Nursing Homes,” commissioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, gives a look-back at the events ... [More >>]
Friday, April 28th, 2006. Highland Heights, KY - Both the present and previous operators of the Lakeside Heights nursing home in Highland Heights have appealed a state decision to terminate the nursing home's operating license. Last week, Lakeside Heights Nursing Center LLC, which had been operating the home, asked the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and ... [More >>]
Friday, April 28th, 2006. De Queen, AR - Detectives say they are looking into a doctor's claims that an elderly woman was sexually assaulted at a De Queen, Arkansas nursing home. The investigation started after the 70-year-old woman went to the hospital. After an examination, the doctor told police she had been sexual ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006. Los Angeles, CA - Mary Jobe fell down the stairs of her San Francisco home a month ago, fracturing her pelvis. Only time and therapy would heal the bone, and social workers recommended a nursing home where the 84-year-old could recuperate. With Jobe's release from the hospital imminent, her relatives had ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006. Philadelphia, PA - Prompted by the suspicious death of a 63-year-old resident last weekend, state regulators yesterday closed a troubled Chester assisted-living home after deciding that conditions there "constitute an immediate and serious danger" to its occupants. The state Attorney General's Office and a state grand jury had been investigating allegations ... [More >>]
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006. Seattle, WA - The nursing-home resident was only 50, but Huntington's disease had robbed her of much of her memory. Still, Luella Longmore was sure of what had happened. She'd been raped on the bathroom floor. It was Jose, the young nursing assistant, she insisted. Jose S. Hernandez, 32, denied touching ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 20th, 2006. Toledo, OH - The nursing home which failed to report an assault which resulted in the death of a resident has been informed that effective May 6 the Ohio Department of Health has terminated the payment of Medicare and Medicaid for new admissions. The DOH also recommended that the federal Centers ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006. Highland Heights, KY - Nineteen residents remained at Lakeside Heights Nursing Center today, and that number will diminish as those on Medicaid continue to move out. But interim administrator Al Mollozzi doesn't expect to see the Highland Heights facility empty completely, as it labors to address a host of problems that ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006. Toledo, OH - Payment of Medicare and Medicaid for new admissions will be cut off May 6 for a South Toledo nursing home where authorities allege a resident was beaten to death by his roommate. The Ohio Department of Health issued the order this week and recommended the federal Centers for ... [More >>]
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006. Toledo, OH - The state is now coming down hard on the Foundation Park Care Center. Police say Norbert Konwin's roommate beat the Alzheimer's patient last month at the nursing home on South Byrne. Konwin died about two weeks later. The nursing home has a long list of complaints, including patient ... [More >>]
