Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, February 16th, 2008. Redding, CA - A pair of Redding nursing homes are more likely to restrain residents than other facilities around the state and the nation, federal statistics show. About 18 percent of the 104 residents at Copper Ridge Care Center -- formerly called Applewood Inn -- and about 15 percent of the ... [More >>]
Friday, February 15th, 2008. Williamsville, NY - A second Western New York nursing home, Williamsville Suburban Nursing Home LLC, has been added to the list of the country's worst senior care facilities. But owner Richard Zacher said the listing is a strong-arm tactic to force him to close the facility, as prescribed by the state ... [More >>]
Friday, February 15th, 2008. Sandusky, OH - A former nurse accused of abusing patients at a northern Ohio nursing home has pleaded not guilty to new charges. John Riems was charged with rape, sexual battery and patient abuse. Riems, 49, entered the plea when he was arraigned Wednesday, participating in court session via closed circuit television ... [More >>]
Friday, February 15th, 2008. Tucson, AZ - A Sierra Vista assisted-living home for people with Alzheimer's disease has paid a $1,500 fine for abuse of a resident and not reporting abuse allegations to the Arizona Department of Heath Services. It was one of three actions taken against Southern Arizona elder-care homes in the fourth quarter ... [More >>]
Friday, February 15th, 2008. Santa Cruz, CA - The county's largest and most notorious nursing home is back in the news this week, after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services named it one of the 131 worst care facilities in the nation. But the new owners of the former Pleasant Care nursing home on ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008. Waltham, MA - A Waltham nursing home was recently added to a list of 131 facilities deemed by the federal government to have serious problems involving patient care. Piety Corner Nursing Home, a 34-bed facility at 235 Bacon St., will undergo government reviews more frequently and with greater thoroughness since it ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has built upon historic action it took last November by making public more names of underperforming nursing homes across the country. On November 29, 2007, the agency began publishing the names of Special Focus Facility (SFF) nursing homes that had failed to ... [More >>]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008. Sandusky, OH - The case of the nurse who reportedly admits to having abused nearly 100 nursing-home patients since the 1980s is the nightmare dreaded by every family with loved ones in a care facility. Those patients, usually elderly, are among the most defenseless citizens and deserve protection from abuse, a ... [More >>]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008. Marion, NC - A man confined to a wheelchair says he's been the victim of neglect while living at Sunrise Rehabilitation & Care. "I am not being treated like, I feel, as a human being," said Abner Colin Crawley, who lives at the nursing home at 306 Deer Park Road. However, a ... [More >>]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008. Madison, WI - Nursing homes in Middleton, Sun Prairie and Columbus are among 131 nationally with chronic quality problems, the federal government says. For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday released its full list of "Special Focus Facilities, " a move intended to pressure improvements ... [More >>]
