Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Friday, February 29th, 2008. Cleveland, TN - AARP announced earlier this week its opposition to nursing home liability legislation co-sponsored by a local state Rep. Eric Watson. The nationwide organization, founded on the premise of improving lives of retirees, follows the lead of the Tennessee Citizen Action Organization, a consumer watchdog organization. AARP Advocacy Director ... [More >>]
Friday, February 29th, 2008. Rochester, NY - The family of a 92-year-old former resident of Blossom South Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has filed a lawsuit against owners of the Rochester nursing home, claiming that the elderly woman's right leg was amputated in December because the staff didn't properly treat her bone fracture.... "I think it's ... [More >>]
Friday, February 29th, 2008. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Wednesday revealed that despite a growing number of senior citizens in upstate New York who are victimized by financial scams, physical abuse and neglect, there is currently an absence of safeguards in place to protect seniors. Fueled by the baby boomer generation growing older, upstate New ... [More >>]
Friday, February 29th, 2008. Pekin,IL - A Pekin nursing home has been fined for some of the most serious licensure violations imposed by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The state health department on Wednesday issued a list of nursing home violations for June 2007. Timbercreek Rehab and Healthcare, 2220 State St., Pekin, was fined $20,000 ... [More >>]
Friday, February 29th, 2008. Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Susan Cooper suspended new admissions of residents to Milan Health Care Center nursing home effective Thursday and imposed a state civil monetary penalty of $3,000, according to a press release. Additionally, a federal civil penalty has been imposed at $5,300 a day. Milan Health Care Center, ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 28th, 2008. Glens Falls, NY - For the second time this year, the Eden Park Health Care Center facility in Catskill has been cited by New York State Department of Health for deficiencies that have caused isolated resident harm. The state DOH fined 21 nursing homes across the state during the fourth quarter ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 28th, 2008. Bangor, ME - A Rock Island nursing home paid a $12,000 fine to the state for failure to monitor a resident who sexually abused one woman and was found an hour later fondling another, officials announced Wednesday. St. Anthony’s Nursing and Rehabilitation was fined after state investigators found that the man ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 28th, 2008. Bangor, ME - Front-line workers with the elderly attended a training session Wednesday on mandated reporting of elder abuse. Knox County TRIAD sponsored the training session at Bartlett House to update providers regarding state regulations on mandated reporting. Jonathan Powers of Knox County 911 and Anthony Camporiale of the Rockland Police Department ... [More >>]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008. Des Moines, IA - It is one of the most under-recognized social problems in America: abuse of the elderly. Experts say, 84% of cases go unreported and 90% of the time, the victim's children are to blame. Advocates say, here in Iowa, there is reason to worry: our state ... [More >>]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008. Winfield, WV - The son of a woman has filed suit against two Putnam County nursing homes over the treatment he says his mother received. Zeb Lee Taylor Sr., power of attorney for Rosa Taylor, filed the complaint last month in Putnam Circuit Court against several business entities that do business ... [More >>]
