Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Friday, July 25th, 2008. Frankfort, KY - A Covington nursing home at the center of a controversy involving two state employees fired for misconduct has had run-ins with state regulators over the care of residents in recent years. Earlier this year, the Garrard Convalescent Home received a "Type A'' citation -- the most serious issued ... [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. 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 >>]
Thursday, March 20th, 2008. Grayson, KY - A grand jury has indicted a second person in the death of a nursing home resident. Michael Price, who had cerebral palsy, died last fall at Community Presence in Grayson, Kentucky. A Carter County grand jury indicted Brandon Starotska on manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence and abuse or neglect ... [More >>]
Sunday, December 30th, 2007. Frankfort, KY - A Louisville nursing home is among three Kentucky facilities on a federal list of chronically troubled nursing homes.... The Louisville home, the Highlands Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, was cited for eight health deficiencies, the Herald-Leader said. They included failure to hire only people ... [More >>]
Saturday, December 29th, 2007. Lexington, KY - Three Kentucky nursing homes, including one in Lexington, are on a list of 128 chronically troubled facilities ordered by the federal government to get closer scrutiny. But between Washington and Frankfort, where state inspectors are assigned to visit nursing homes, nobody in government thought ... [More >>]
Thursday, October 18th, 2007. Louisville, KY - Sherry Hoover says her mother experienced low blood sugar while she lived at Parkway Medical Center, dying from brain injuries that could have been caused by low blood sugar. Now Ssherry is wondering if her mom was murdered. Mary Ann Hoover was 64 when she died in May ... [More >>]
Thursday, October 11th, 2007. Pikeville, KY - For the second time in less than one month, a Pike County nursing home is facing wrongful death allegations. The allegations are piled up on the Pike County circuit clerk docket alongside six other wrongful death or personal injury claims against the Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and ... [More >>]
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007. Louisville, KY - Four women were in a Louisville courtroom Tuesday morning answering to charges from manslaughter to tampering with evidence and even perjury. This after an 86-year-old woman died after falling from her wheelchair while in their care.... Tuesday morning's court hearing was nothing more than a formality. It lasted ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 6th, 2007. Berea, KY - A Berea man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman in a local nursing home. About 2:17 a.m., Matthew Bryant, 25, of Old Walleceton Road, allegedly entered the Berea Health Care Center on Richmond Road in Berea. Police still aren’t sure how Bryant gained ... [More >>]
