Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007.
Oklahoma City, OK - An administrator whose Oklahoma City nursing home made the list of the 54 worst centers for patient care in the nation vows to ensure proper care for residents and adherence to the rules.
Barbie Harter said today -- her first day on the job -- that any ... [More >>]
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Friday, November 30th, 2007.
Columbia, SC - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday released the first-ever ranking of the 54 worst-performing nursing homes in the country, and two South Carolina facilities are on the list.
Ridgeview Manor is in Hopkins, east of Columbia. Magnolia Manor is in Moncks Corner.
Ridgeview Manor had 31 ... [More >>]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007.
Atlanta, GA - Two Georgia nursing homes have been told they're among the worst in the country, according to federal data released Thursday.
The Place at Augusta and Shoreham of Marietta were cited for deficiencies and were listed on the Web site of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They ... [More >>]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007.
Reno, NV - A local nursing home with a history of suspected patient abuse and Medicaid fraud, is once again in the limelight. So are the patients really in any danger?
A federal agency has named the Evergreen Mountain View Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carson City... one of the worst ... [More >>]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007.
Harlingen, TX - A family whose mother passed away two years ago after spending just a month in a nursing home says her death should not have happened then and now they're asking for help. "She walked, talked, could eat on her own,"
said Arnold Trevino, remembering his mother before ... [More >>]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007.
Beaufort, SC - The former nursing home employee accused of tossing an 89-year-old woman into a hallway has turned herself in, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report.
Saffiyah S. Scott, 28, of Ridgeland was charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult, a felony carrying up to five years in prison. ... [More >>]
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007.
Shreveport, LA - "I don't want the next call to be that because of negligence,my mother is dead."
On Thursday, KSLA News 12 told you about Veronica Arnold's 90 year old diabetic mother who she says went more than 15 hours without eating at the Heritage Manor Stratmore Nursing Home. ... [More >>]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007.
Richmond, VA - The Virginia Board of Nursing took action Wednesday against an aide accused of abusing elderly patients in Virginia Beach, revoking her right to work in nursing homes in the commonwealth.
The former certified nurse aide, Patricia Annette Dukes Moore, worked at three nursing homes and one assisted-living facility ... [More >>]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007.
Norfolk, VA - The case of a nursing home aide accused of committing a string of violations in four Virginia Beach facilities is scheduled to be reviewed Wednesday by the Virginia Board of Nursing.
The allegations against Patricia Annette Dukes Moore include abuse of residents and span more than five years ... [More >>]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007.
Murfreesboro, TN - Incidents of nursing home residents attacking other residents and carrying razor blades as weapons convinced state inspectors that the Tennessee Veterans’ Home in Murfreesboro is still failing to protect residents from one another, an October inspection report shows.
Several episodes of resident-on-resident abuse, including one incident that resulted ... [More >>]
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