Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, July 19th, 2008. Newport News, VA - The sister of a mentally disabled man who police say was sexually assaulted by a staffer at a Newport News assisted-living site is suing the home, accusing it of negligence for hiring the worker in spite of his criminal record. The suit alleges that Cote De Neige ... [More >>]
Friday, July 18th, 2008. Louisville, KY - Kentucky’s number two Nursing Home Regulator has been fired, because of an improper relationship with a nursing home operator. The FBI and State Attorney General are now investigating allegations that Moses Young lives, perhaps rent free, in a house owned by a nursing home owner and may have ... [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. Des Moines, IA - Executives who took over management of a troubled chain of nursing homes with ties to Iowa now face prison terms after being convicted of defrauding the nation's taxpayers of $34 million. Prosecutors say the three officials bilked the government between 1999 and 2006 by creating 150 fictitious ... [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, July 13th, 2008. Mason City, IA - The names of some care center employees terminated for abusing residents and the facts surrounding the alleged abuses are available to the public online. In May, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office clarified an interpretation of state law to permit broader public access to records of Iowa Workforce ... [More >>]
Saturday, July 12th, 2008. Montgomery, AL - A Montgomery woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $97,036 over a two-year period from the South Haven Manor Nursing Home where she worked as an accounts payable clerk... In a news release Friday, Attorney General Troy King said Friday that Anne Marie Jones' ... [More >>]
