Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006. Lawrence, KS - The case of a woman sentenced to jail for stealing elderly patients’ morphine has raised questions about how employees are screened for jobs in Kansas nursing homes. At the time she was hired as a nursing aide at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in late 2004, Erica A. Bay ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006. Longview, WA - The family of a 76-year-old Longview woman, who died after suffering a head injury from a fall in a nursing home and being left undiagnosed for more than two days, will receive a nearly $1.9 million settlement. According to court documents, Gertrude "Trudy" Wart was admitted to the ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006. Weyauwega, WI - State and federal fines, now totaling more than $100,000 and imposed on Waupaca County's Lakeview Manor Nursing Home, will have to be borne by county taxpayers, the county finance director says. On May 2, the Department of Health and Family Services issued penalties totaling $52,000 for the violations ... [More >>]
Friday, May 26th, 2006. New York, NY - A jury in Nassau County returned a guilty verdict on Thursday for negligence against a nursing home, where a Vietnam vet was left outside in the 95 degree sun. Jurors awarded the patient's family 3 million dollars for abuse, and neglect, said the family's attorney David Woycik. Russell ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006. Hickory, NC - A recently released report says a man in a nursing home was physically and verbally abused and his family said they were never notified. The state report found six physical and verbal altercations dating back to March. The nursing home couldn’t provide the state with the paperwork and ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006. Marion, IN - A state panel suspended the nursing license of a woman charged with neglecting a nursing home resident who was allegedly allowed to lay in his own waste for days. Zanna Paul, the former director of Nursing at Northgate Healthcare Center, was indicted for mistreating a 62-year-old man, who ... [More >>]
Sunday, May 21st, 2006. Washington D.C. - Instances of exploitation and abuse in nursing homes and other assisted living facilities in the District often went unprosecuted or even uninvestigated, advocates and authorities say. The cases are hard to prove: With their infirmities, victims often struggled to convey, or even remember, what happened to them. ... [More >>]
Thursday, May 18th, 2006. St. Maries, ID - A jury has awarded $18 million in punitive damages to relatives of an 86-year-old man who sued the nursing home where he died in 1995, claiming he had been abused and overly medicated. The Benewah County panel's 11-1 verdict Wednesday followed a three-week trial stemming from the ... [More >>]
Thursday, May 18th, 2006. CMS often does not penalize nursing homes that place the safety of patients at risk or that have long-term problems, according to a report released on Wednesday by the HHS Office of Inspector General, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports. According to the report, CMS should have terminated the contracts of ... [More >>]
Thursday, May 18th, 2006. Marion, IN - A grand jury has indicted two former nursing home officials on neglect charges, alleging they allowed a resident to lay in his own waste for days with back sores and maggot-covered clothing. Zanna Paul and Sandra Andersen reportedly placed the 62-year-old man "in a situation that endangered his ... [More >>]
