Archive: Nursing Home Abuse Kentucky
Thursday, April 13th, 2006.
Highland Heights, KY - The state investigation into the operations of Lakeside Heights Nursing Center is continuing, but no date has been set for when it will be finished.
"We are reviewing files seized," said Corey Bellamy, assistant communications director of admin services in the state Attorney General's office.Kentucky Attorney General ... [More >>]
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Friday, April 7th, 2006.
Highland Heights, KY - When state inspectors arrived in February at the Lakeside Heights Nursing Center in Highland Heights for their annual review, it quickly became apparent that the facility was in deep trouble.
According to a report obtained Thursday by The Post through a state open records request, the inspectors ... [More >>]
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Highland Heights, KY - The Kentucky Attorney General is investigating the troubled Lakeside Heights Nursing Center in Highland Heights.
Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced Tuesday, March 4, that the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation in his office had executed search warrants for the facility. The search has been conducted over a ... [More >>]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
Highland Heights, KY - A Northern Kentucky nursing home has been forced to shut its doors after claims of abuse and neglect. The Kentucky Attorney General's Office is investigating serious allegations against the Highland Heights nursing home.
Kentucky law enforcers have seized facility records and computers at Lakeside Heights Nursing Center ... [More >>]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006.
Frankfort, KY - The state has ordered the 286-bed Lakeside Heights nursing home in Highland Heights to remove all residents and shut down within the next 30 days, according to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Effective Wednesday, the Cabinet is terminating Medicaid funding to the facility at 3510 Alexandria ... [More >>]
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Friday, March 10th, 2006.
Frankfort, KY - What was intended as a prank on co-workers ended with felony convictions for two former Irvine nursing home workers who pleaded guilty to criminal abuse for giving laxatives to patients who did not need them.
The defendants, Lisa Kilburn and Kim Congleton, pleaded guilty today in Estill County ... [More >>]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005.
KY - Due to medical advances and better health habits, we as a society are living longer than our grandparents. The problem many face is that they are living longer, but spending much of this time dependent and in poor health. This dependency makes the elderly a perfect target for ... [More >>]
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Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Cynthiana, KY - An employee at a northern Kentucky nursing home was indicted Thursday for allegedly abusing two disabled residents in June 2004. Marsha Doolin, 22, was indicted on two counts of felony wanton abuse of residents at the Grand Haven Nursing Home in Cynthiana on June 21, 2004.
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Irvine, KY - Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced the indictment of two nursing assistants for multiple counts of abuse at Irvine Health and Rehabilitation Center.
The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Division say the two nursing assistants, 27-year-old Lisa Kilburn and 30-year-old Kim Congleton abused elderly and medically fragile ... [More >>]
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