Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007. Santa Cruz, CA - Reports of financial elder abuse in Santa Cruz County have spiked this year, after a law took effect Jan. 1 requiring bank tellers to report suspect behavior. Local staff with the state's Adult Protective Services already have restored or prevented $36.5 million in the past year, following ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007. Stockton, CA - Relatives of a 79-year-old woman who died when Beverly Healthcare Center's air conditioners went out last summer during a record heat wave filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Tuesday. The suit, which seeks an unspecified amount of money, was filed a day after the California Department of Public Health announced ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007. Petaluma, CA - When we first wrote about the ongoing elder abuse at Petaluma’s Pleasant Care Convalescent two years ago, we hoped that state and federal agencies charged with protecting the most vulnerable in our society would take action on the problem before someone died. Unfortunately, conditions at the facility ... [More >>]
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007. Stockton, CA – Relatives of a 79-year-old woman who died when Beverly Healthcare Center’s air conditions went out last summer amid a record heat wave filed a wrongful death lawsuit today seeking an unspecified amount of money. Joan Southern died July 22, 2006, while living at the Stockton nursing home at ... [More >>]
Thursday, June 28th, 2007. Flintridge, CA - After years of fines, penalties and accusations of elder abuse, La Cañada-based Pleasant Care Corp., the state's second largest nursing home corporation, is set to auction all 30 of its California facilities. Pleasant Care, which filed for bankruptcy in March of this year, has had many years of ... [More >>]
Saturday, April 14th, 2007. Oakland, CA - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is making public internal memos and agreements between Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and nursing home operators that show just how Stern sold nursing home workers out. The nursing home workers lost their rights to strike, complain publicly ... [More >>]
Friday, April 13th, 2007. Riverside, CA - The agency that oversees California nursing homes is failing to quickly respond to complaints or strongly state the extent of problems, according to a highly critical report released Thursday. Of the roughly 17,000 complaints filed over 21 ½ months ending April 14, 2006, barely half -- just 51 ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007. Santa Monica, CA - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights made public today internal memos and agreements between Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and nursing home operators that show just how Stern sold nursing home workers out. The nursing home workers lost their rights to strike, complain ... [More >>]
Monday, April 9th, 2007. Riverside, CA - The daughter of a Corona nursing-home resident has sued the owners, accusing them of compromising the 86-year-old woman's care, which resulted in her death after a fire. Maria Ybarra died at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton four days after the fire. She lived at Pleasant Care Convalescent ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007. Sacramento, CA - The Nursing Home Complaint Investigation Improvement Act (AB 399), authored by Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles), was approved last week in the Assembly Health Committee by a vote of 10-0. The legislation would fight abuse and neglect by improving the quality and timeliness of nursing home complaint ... [More >>]
