Nursing Home Abuse

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007. Panama City, FL - A Florida Senate committee heard horror stories Wednesday about understaffed nursing homes at the Capitol. Maria Sanchez testified before the Health Regulation Committee. She put 87-year-old mother in a nursing home last year. Her mother fell down and broke her hip. When Sanchez demanded answers, she couldn’t find ... [More >>]

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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007. Palm Beach, FL - A Palm Beach County woman has been arrested on charges that she abused an elderly resident of a South Florida nursing home. Phillina Anderson was arrested by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit after an eyewitness told investigators she saw Anderson hit ... [More >>]

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CNA Accused Of Abusing Alzheimer’s Patient

Thursday, September 6th, 2007. Tallahassee, FL - A certified nursing assistant has been accused of abusing an elderly resident of a Pensacola nursing home. Nicole Gamble was taken into custody based on allegations that she fought with an Alzheimer’s patient under her care, causing injuries to his face and neck. The arrest was carried out ... [More >>]

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Crist vetoes bills on nursing home inspections, teacher standards

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007. Tallahassee, FL - Bills that would have reduced state nursing home inspections and lowered training standards for some teachers of students who speak English as a second language were vetoed Thursday by Gov. Charlie Crist. The governor vetoed five measures in all. The others would have increased court costs for certain ... [More >>]

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Families in chaos after home is closed

Thursday, May 31st, 2007. Palmetto, FL - An elderly man with a cane hobbled up to the Palmetto Guest Home on Tuesday, but the door to the nursing home was locked and no one was inside. The man was trying to get his wife's walker, left behind when she and 71 other residents were forced ... [More >>]

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Daughter of nursing-home rape victim to push for new state law

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007. Jacksonville, FL - A jury awarded [Sandra] Banning $750,000 Feb. 23 in her lawsuit against Southwood [Nursing Center, Inc.], where on July 23, 2002, [Sandra's mother] was raped by a fellow resident and longtime sex criminal.... Now, Banning said she will lobby Florida lawmakers to institute mandatory background checks for all ... [More >>]

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Jury awards $750,000 in nursing home rape case: victim’s daughter hopes it reignites a law to protect others from sex offenders

Saturday, February 24th, 2007. Jacksonville, FL - A $750,000 jury award against a Jacksonville nursing home where a 77-year-old woman was raped by a repeat sex offender has the daughter elated about the outcome, but not because of the money. "I don't care if it was $1, it was all about the ... verdict," Sandra ... [More >>]

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Nursing Home Janitor Charged In Striking Disabled Resident

Friday, February 23rd, 2007. Tallahassee, FL - A Palm Beach County man has been charged with striking a disabled resident of a nursing home where he was formerly employed. James Williams was arrested Friday following an investigation by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE) team. The investigation revealed ... [More >>]

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AgeSpan Releases Senior Assisted Monitoring for Combating Abuse

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007. St. Petersburg, FL - AgeSpan, a senior Internet enabling solution for seniors in the United States, unveiled their SAM (Senior Assisted Monitoring) Cam solution for combating nursing home abuse and monitoring health conditions in VA Hospitals. Over the past 6 years, AgeSpan worked to overcome the many difficulties associated with ... [More >>]

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2 Nurses Accused Of Withholding Medication At Nursing Home

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007. Dowling Park, FL - Two nurses who worked a Suwannee County nursing facility were arrested Wednesday, accused of several counts of neglect after an investigation found they withheld medication from elderly patients, according to the Florida Attorney General.... "Knowing that elderly patients were denied essential medications is heartbreaking," Attorney General Bill ... [More >>]

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