|
|
Nursing Home Abuse NewsArchive for June, 2007Feds Investigate Local Nursing HomeThursday, June 28th, 2007. Hatboro, PA - The U.S. Justice Department is calling for federal oversight for a nursing facility for infants and adolescents in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Attorney's office believes children at the Holland-Glen Nursing Facility in Hatboro, Pa. facility may be in danger. A criminal complaint claims the facility does not have a ... [More >>] Pleasant Care On Auction BlockThursday, June 28th, 2007. Flintridge, CA - After years of fines, penalties and accusations of elder abuse, La Cañada-based Pleasant Care Corp., the state's second largest nursing home corporation, is set to auction all 30 of its California facilities. Pleasant Care, which filed for bankruptcy in March of this year, has had many years of ... [More >>] Ruling upheldFriday, June 22nd, 2007. Batesville, AR - When Circuit Judge John Norman Harkey granted a class action lawsuit against a local nursing home, the health care facility appealed. Wednesday, the Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously upheld Harkey’s decision. Initially, the lawsuit involved only Helen Cook, a former resident of Batesville Nursing and Rehab. The lawsuit filed in Independence ... [More >>] LPN’s troubles were known two years ago by the stateTuesday, June 19th, 2007. Lake Oswego, OR - More than two years ago, the Oregon Department of Human Services told the state board of nursing that Carri Lynn Borks’ criminal record made her unfit to nurse at a DHS-regulated facility – yet the nursing board allowed her to continue nursing with an unencumbered license ... [More >>] Massachusetts Nursing Home Indicted For Manslaughter In Connection With Death Of Elderly PatientMonday, June 18th, 2007. Cambridge, MA - A national nursing home corporation was indicted by a Middlesex Grand Jury today in connection with the 2004 death of an elderly patient in its care. Life Care Centers of America, Inc., the Tennessee corporation that owns and operates the Life Care Center of Acton, was ... [More >>] AHCA Backs Senator Kohl’s Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007; Legislation Will Cost-Effectively, Fairly Screen Prospective EmployeesSunday, June 17th, 2007. The American Health Care Association (AHCA) today endorsed Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 1577) introduced by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI). AHCA President and CEO Bruce Yarwood noted that AHCA has long been a supporter of efforts to conduct effective and fair criminal history background checks ... [More >>] County nursing homes show mixed care records; The disparities reflect school funding debateSunday, June 17th, 2007. Concord, NH - New Hampshire's publicly funded nursing homes perform better than their counterparts in other regions of the country, but a review of their inspection reports, architecture and amenities reveals wide disparities in elder care throughout the state. Coos County's neediest seniors sleep in rooms considered too small by federal ... [More >>] Nursing home company indicted in 2004 death of patientSaturday, June 16th, 2007. Boston, MA - A national nursing home corporation was indicted Friday in the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in her overturned wheelchair at the bottom of the front stairway of an Acton facility. Life Care Centers of America Inc., which owns and operates the Life Care Center ... [More >>] Abuse case goes to trial; Deal falls through as former Moreau nurse changes day’s eventsSaturday, June 16th, 2007. Fort Edward, NY - A plea deal in the case of a Moreau man accused of abusing a nursing home patient fell through Friday when the defendant's version of events did not equal criminal conduct in the eyes of a judge and prosecutor. Andrew B. Thompson, who faces felony charges of ... [More >>] Care provider charged in death at nursing homeSaturday, June 16th, 2007. Acton, MA - Julia McCauley , a resident at Life Care Center in Acton since 1996, tended to roam the nursing home in her wheelchair. Worried about her safety, doctors fitted her with a tan plastic bracelet that set off an alarm and locked the doors if she got too ... [More >>] Bad Behavior has blocked 224 access attempts in the last 7 days. |
Last Updated: March 02, 2009. 01:15:01 pm
