Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, January 26th, 2008. San Luis Obispo, CA - A man whose mother died in a San Luis Obispo nursing home filed a lawsuit against the facility saying it caused his mother’s death by reducing staff to save money. Jay Cameron filed the lawsuit against Compass Health, a local corporation ... [More >>]
Friday, January 25th, 2008. Napa, CA - The way Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sees it, $14.5 billion in budget cuts would be a boon to the economic health of the state. But for the more than 150,000 elderly Californians who reside in more than 7,700 of the state’s assisted living facilities, the ... [More >>]
Friday, January 18th, 2008. Santa Barbara, CA - A lawsuit filed this week accuses a local nursing home and an assisted living center of elder abuse. The attorney representing three families says this case is about fraud, elder abuse and two cases of wrongful death at Mission Terrace and Cliff View ... [More >>]
Friday, December 28th, 2007. Riverside, CA - Nursing home critics say they are dumbfounded by Gov. Schwarzenegger's rejection of a bill that would have required state nursing home inspectors to complete complaint investigations quicker and better explain their conclusions. State legislators overwhelmingly supported the bill, which would have required most investigations to be completed in ... [More >>]
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007. Los Angeles, CA - The day Rita Kittower buried her husband last month, the 83-year-old widow from Tarzana thought she had endured the worst life had to offer.... Then came the anonymous phone call the day after the funeral. A woman claiming to be an employee of the nursing home told Rita ... [More >>]
Monday, December 17th, 2007. Riverside, CA - A Pomona nursing home identified as one of the state's poorly performing facilities is set to lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding on Wednesday, which could force some residents to find new homes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal agency that regulates nursing homes, notified the ... [More >>]
Saturday, December 15th, 2007. San Jose, CA - Pacific Coast Manor has been issued a "AA" citation, the most severe under state law, and fined $100,000 after a state investigation concluded inadequate care led to the death of a female resident at the nursing home. The penalty was announced by Dr. Mark Horton, director of ... [More >>]
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007. Napa, CA - The family of an elderly woman who died in hospice care is suing a local nursing home, charging that the staff's failure to follow a care plan resulted in acute dehydration that crippled the woman. According to court papers in the wrongful death suit, Eulalia Grimoldi's final days ... [More >>]
Thursday, November 8th, 2007. Salinas, CA - A class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court against a statewide nursing care facility operator affects a location in Salinas. The lawsuit alleges that West Hollywood-based Windsor Healthcare Management provides substandard care and neglects the rights of its senior residents. Donald Boone, a resident of a ... [More >>]
Thursday, October 25th, 2007. Citrus Heights, CA - As flames tore through a Citrus Heights elder care home late the night of Nov. 26, two elderly women could not escape their beds, one of them blocked by rails and another trapped by a locked wheelchair, according to an investigation by the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire ... [More >>]
