Archive for September, 2006
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006.
Tuscon, AZ - An elderly woman died last December when staff members at her assisted-living center confused her medication orders with her husband's.
An 86-year-old man with dementia died after falling, cutting his head and breaking a hip in March — the fifth time he had fallen in 2 1/2 months.
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006.
Auburn, NY - A former aide at a central New York nursing home is charged with physically abusing a patient.
Police say 31-year-old Shanika Williams of Auburn struck a female resident with dementia on May 11th. Officials say the blow bruised the face of the patient at the Auburn Nursing Home.
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Friday, September 1st, 2006.
Fort Payne, AL - A DeKalb County grand jury has returned indictments against two local nurses in connection with the 2005 death of a patient at Collinsville nursing home.
Last week, the grand jury returned a manslaughter indictment against Cornelia Ledbett Morrison, 59, of 170 Dalton Street in Rainsville.
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