Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Thursday, April 6th, 2006. Highland Heights, KY - The Kentucky Attorney General is investigating the troubled Lakeside Heights Nursing Center in Highland Heights. Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced Tuesday, March 4, that the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation in his office had executed search warrants for the facility. The search has been conducted over a ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006. Sparta, WI - A former nurse’s aide who admitted to sexually assaulting a 73-year-old Alzheimer’s patient at a Sparta nursing home in February 2005 will spend 20 years in prison. Monroe County Circuit Judge Steven Abbott sentenced James Doeslaere, formerly of Bangor, Wis., Tuesday morning to 20 years in a Wisconsin ... [More >>]
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006. 24-hour hotline, (866) 800-1409, will be staffed by state caseworkers trained to respond promptly to abuse complaints Springfield, IL - Stepping up efforts to fight elder abuse, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced a new hotline where seniors and their loved ones can report elder abuse or exploitation and quickly get ... [More >>]
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006. Highland Heights, KY - A Northern Kentucky nursing home has been forced to shut its doors after claims of abuse and neglect. The Kentucky Attorney General's Office is investigating serious allegations against the Highland Heights nursing home. Kentucky law enforcers have seized facility records and computers at Lakeside Heights Nursing Center ... [More >>]
Monday, April 3rd, 2006. Newark, OH - A Utica man pleaded guilty today in Licking County Common Pleas Court to 10 counts of gross sexual imposition in a case involving an elderly nursing home patient. A judge then sentenced him to four years in prison. Judge Jon Spahr also declared Thomas Booth, 48, a sexually-oriented ... [More >>]
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006. The case of a Wilmington nurse aide convicted of choking his wife into unconsciousness highlights how North Carolina’s screening system falls short in weeding out potentially violent caregivers, even those with criminal backgrounds. North Carolina maintains a registry of unlicensed health care providers that includes information about abuse or neglect in ... [More >>]
