Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Friday, August 8th, 2008. Raleigh, NC - North Carolina Governor Mike Easley signed 28 bills into law including buying Cape Fear River dams from the United States, car inspections, oil clean-up, military family education, state tort claims and public duty doctrine, background checks for nursing home workers, and more. The 28 bills were recently passed ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008. Columbia, SC - Residents of a Columbia nursing home that the S.C. Department of Mental Health operates have suffered preventable deaths, injuries and illnesses because the department failed to provide them with adequate care. Running afoul of generally accepted professional standards, the inadequate care violated rights of the residents outlined in ... [More >>]
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008. Naples, FL - Sandy Banning has been waiting six years for Florida lawmakers to start protecting frail elders in nursing homes from known sexual predators. The state Legislature considered legislation this past spring to require criminal background checks of all prospective nursing-home residents, and to deny admission to anybody with a ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008. Fredericksburg, VA - Nursing home corporations are using arbitration to prevent judges and juries from evaluating nursing home abuse and neglect. A Free Lance-Star article ["Elderly want right to sue homes over care," June 21] addresses the troubling practice by nursing homes of requiring patients and their families to sign arbitration ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008. Louisville, KY - Will nursing home reform ever get the fix it needs? Will 23,000 Kentuckians living in nursing homes ever get help to live safely and comfortably? There's a chance right now that two important people in Kentucky can help — Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning. These two veteran senators in ... [More >>]
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. In late 2006, 85-year-old Priscilla Stovall, a bedridden survivor of three heart attacks, was killed in her Clovis, Calif., home. Her killer: the aide hired to help her around the house. Earlier this year, Kelly Jones was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison for the death ... [More >>]
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined calls to increase oversight of the expanding home care industry in light of a "growing number of cases of abuse, neglect or fraud in which home caregivers take advantage of the frail and the ill." The trend toward home health care is seen as ... [More >>]
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. Springfield, IL - Safety for Seniors is More Important than Free Rides on Public Transportation; AARP Urges Governor and Legislators to Work on Solutions The following is a statement by Bob Gallo, State Director, AARP Illinois: The Governor's decision to reduce the Fiscal Year 2009 budget bill eliminates or cuts increases ... [More >>]
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008. Cherry Hill, NJ - While it is undoubtedly painful, putting Mom or Dad into a nursing home is sometimes necessary when they require around-the-clock care. In general, a nursing home's admission office is frequently the scene of tears and anguish from grown children overwhelmed by the guilt of abandoning ... [More >>]
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008. Washington, DC - The U.S. has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes? The Bush administration announced Wednesday that it will put in place such a rating system by the end of the year. It's designed to give consumers another tool to consider when ... [More >>]
