Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Hillsdale, MI - Residents and staff of the Litchfield Nursing Centre are finding it hard to adjust to the state–mandated closing of the facility after an inspector issued 29 citations, including charges of abuse. The facility was given notice March 30 to close in 30 days. According to T.J. Bucholz of ... [More >>]
Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Rustburg, VA - On Friday, Circuit Judge Samuel Johnston presided over what he called one of the worst cases of elderly abuse he's seen in 30 years. Afterward he left the courtroom, went back to his chambers and threw up. It was the pictures of an emaciated Capitola West, an ... [More >>]
Friday, April 27th, 2007. Stayton, OR - A retirement community employee has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a 70-year-old woman in 2005, the Stayton Police Department said Thursday. The alleged victim was a resident at Marian Estates, a retirement community in Sublimity.
Monday, April 23rd, 2007. Tuscon, AZ - A local nursing home was fined $1500 for failure to provide adequate care in the case of a mentally ill patient. Last week's fine was the second penalty Santa Rosa has paid since October 31st. The facility paid $3500 after a March 2006 complaint investigation documented that a ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 19th, 2007. Newburgh, NY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Wednesday announced the sentencing of William Morrison, a former aide at the Rome Memorial Hospital Residential Health Care Facility, who was convicted last month of raping and sexually assaulting a 90-year-old resident of the nursing home. Morrison, 46, of Utica, was sentenced to 25 ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 19th, 2007. Georgetown, SC - Georgetown police have determined there is no evidence to support one of the recent complaints filed against Georgetown Healthcare and Rehab in Maryville. In March, police were called to the facility at 2715 South Island Road because a resident, a 55-60 year old man, claimed to have been ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007. Glens Falls, NY - The family of a resident of Pleasant Valley nursing home who was allegedly abused by an employee of the home has filed a notice of claim against Washington County accusing the county of negligence in hiring, training and supervision of the employee. Neither nursing home resident Fabian ... [More >>]
Saturday, April 14th, 2007. Oakland, CA - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is making public internal memos and agreements between Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and nursing home operators that show just how Stern sold nursing home workers out. The nursing home workers lost their rights to strike, complain publicly ... [More >>]
Friday, April 13th, 2007. Riverside, CA - The agency that oversees California nursing homes is failing to quickly respond to complaints or strongly state the extent of problems, according to a highly critical report released Thursday. Of the roughly 17,000 complaints filed over 21 ½ months ending April 14, 2006, barely half -- just 51 ... [More >>]
Friday, April 13th, 2007. Hillsdale, MI - The Litchfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre has been told to close by the Michigan Department of Community Health.... After state and federal employees conducted their annual survey of the facility, mandated for long–term care, Litchfield was given 29 citations. Of those, according to the survey, three [patients] were ... [More >>]
