Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, March 29th, 2008. Lafayette, LA - A Breaux Bridge man has been arrested on sexual abuse and battery charges following alleged incidents at two Lafayette elder-care facilities. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office arrested Roy Bodoin, 55, on Thursday after receiving reports from the Amelia Manor Nursing Home on Center Street and the St. Gertude ... [More >>]
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007. Lafayette, LA - Many in the health-care industry say more oversight is needed of the agencies that provide temporary nurses to medical facilities. While most such agencies are conscientious about checking on the nurses they provide, some do not conduct criminal background checks and drug screening. They are able to ignore ... [More >>]
Saturday, November 17th, 2007. Shreveport, LA - "I don't want the next call to be that because of negligence,my mother is dead." On Thursday, KSLA News 12 told you about Veronica Arnold's 90 year old diabetic mother who she says went more than 15 hours without eating at the Heritage Manor Stratmore Nursing Home. ... [More >>]
Sunday, February 4th, 2007. New Orleans, LA - About 36 hours before Bernice Mayeaux was killed at a Mandeville nursing home, staff members had decided to seek a psychiatric evaluation of her roommate, Karolina Glover, 71, whom police say bludgeoned Mayeaux, 95, with a metal drawer handle. But Pontchartrain Health Care Center failed to get ... [More >>]
Sunday, February 4th, 2007. New Orleans, LA - About 36 hours before Bernice Mayeaux was killed at a Mandeville nursing home, staff members had decided to seek a psychiatric evaluation of her roommate, Karolina Glover, 71, whom police say bludgeoned Mayeaux, 95, with a metal drawer handle. But Pontchartrain Health Care Center failed to get ... [More >>]
Monday, November 13th, 2006. Mandeville, LA - A St. Tammany legislator has called on the state for an immediate investigation into last week's beating death of a resident at a Mandeville nursing home. Karoline Glover, a71-year-old woman with a history of dementia is believed to have clubbed 95-year-old Bernice Mayeaux ... [More >>]
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006. Chalmette, LA - The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.Salvador and Mabel Mangano were initially arrested about two weeks after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm. They own St. ... [More >>]
Friday, June 24th, 2005. Baton Rouge, LA - A new law will encourage nursing-home owners to diversify the long-term-care options they offer. The measure also requires checking nursing home residents for sex offenses in their backgrounds. (SB272)Read the full text of the article >>
Monday, June 6th, 2005. Layfayette, LA - If restoration of the nursing home cuts is not sufficient evidence of the power of the nursing home lobby, try this: the state House of Representatives recently shot down House Bill 388 that would have given nursing home residents who suffer mental or physical abuse the right ... [More >>]
