Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Monday, June 16th, 2008. Atlanta, GA - It's a growing problem that often goes unreported. Elder abuse includes everything from financial scams to physical abuse. DeKalb County has found a new way to fight back. Flossie Mae Grier almost lost the east Atlanta home she's lived in for 40 years after being scammed by a predatory ... [More >>]
Monday, June 16th, 2008. Salt Lake City, UT - State inspection reports describe Utah's elderly languishing in nursing homes ignored by staff. Or senile people getting hit by cars. Or choking to death on a hot dog despite doctors' orders they receive only soft foods. These terrible tales are the exception rather than the ... [More >>]
Sunday, June 15th, 2008. Salt Lake City, UT - Alvin Brewster has a hard time taking care of himself. He can't walk very well. His memory slips. But despite his health problems, he could still recognize the conditions he was living in. "It was a dump," says Alvin, 66. He's talking about Pine Ridge Care Center, ... [More >>]
Saturday, June 14th, 2008. Salt Lake City, UT - At the request of Congress, the federal government has released a list of the worst performing nursing homes in the nation. Mt. Ogden Health and Rehabilitation is the only Utah nursing home listed. These "special focus facilities" have the worst track record over the last three ... [More >>]
Friday, June 13th, 2008. San Francisco, CA - When Ken Connor was on Capitol Hill earlier this week, it was clear that people in his party deeply wish that he would go back to worrying about the unborn. The conservative Christian Republican trial lawyer had come to Washington to testify in support of a ... [More >>]
Friday, June 13th, 2008. Opelika, AL - Opelika police are investigating a report of a 71-year-old nursing home resident being raped at a local facility Thursday. An employee at the Care Center of Opelika on Pepperell Parkway reported the incident, according to Opelika police Capt. Allan Elkins. The incident occurred at 4:48 p.m. Thursday, according ... [More >>]
Thursday, June 12th, 2008. Los Angeles, CA - Ed Asner, Art Linkletter, Michael Reagan, LAPD Police Chief William Bratton, L.A. Public Health Director Jonathan Fielding, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and a host of others join intergenerational experts Debby Bitticks and Dorothy Breininger of Delphi Health Products, Inc. in a new documentary, "Saving Our ... [More >>]
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008. Syracuse, NY - Dr. Hedy Migden thought she had done everything right when trying to find a Certified Nursing Assistant to take care of her then 84-year-old Parkinson's inflicted mother. She used a reputable agency, listed specific needs and was assured that the aide's background checked out. But even ... [More >>]
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008. Union Gap, WA - Parkside Nursing Care Center, which has a recent history of serious problems with regulators, was cited Tuesday for failing to follow physician orders in caring for an elderly man who suffered from bedsores. The patient died last month at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital from an infection, but ... [More >>]
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008. Williamsburg, VA - The family of a former nursing home client says they're intending to sue the facility over her death. 84-year-old Lorina Wiggins died in April at the hospital a week after being admitted from Ruxton Health. Her family’s charging the facility with abuse and neglect, claiming Wiggins ... [More >>]
