Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Monday, June 9th, 2008. Detroit, MI - If the state Legislature approves Gov. Jennifer Granholm's fiscal 2009 budget, the state's 400 nursing homes will have Medicaid reimbursements shaved by $31 million, or an average of 2.3 percent per facility. Nursing homes already are paid well below their actual costs for Medicaid patients, who make up ... [More >>]
Saturday, June 7th, 2008. Traverse City, MI - Did you know that as many as 5 million seniors fall victim to financial abuse each year? And did you also know that 60 percent to 90 percent of perpetrators of financial abuse of seniors are family members or caregivers? These are the reasons I have initiated ... [More >>]
Friday, January 11th, 2008. Lansing, MI - At least once every year nursing homes are inspected, unannounced, by the Bureau of Health Systems. Last year out of the 409 nursing homes, in our state, 394 required return visits. "That's a very small number, 15 out of 409, that actually met the requirements on ... [More >>]
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007. Washington, DC - A stunning front page expose by the New York Times Sunday details how cuts to staffing and operations at nursing homes bought by private equity firms across the country have enriched top executives and buyout firms but left residents worse off. The newspaper's investigation raises serious concerns ... [More >>]
Saturday, July 28th, 2007. Hillsdale, MI - Acquitted — a sweet word coming to the ears of two former nurses charged with abuse and failure to report neglect at the former Litchfield Nursing Centre. The center has since closed, following a state investigation and logging of 21 deficiencies. On Friday morning, following a one–and–a–half day trial, ... [More >>]
Monday, July 16th, 2007. Pontiac, MI - Kirk Glezner spends his days advocating for elderly people to ensure they are not abused or taken advantage of in their own homes or nursing facilities. Glezner is an ombudsman from the Center for Better Care, which works to protect elderly residents from abuse and neglect and from ... [More >>]
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007. Battle Creek, MI - Alternative Choices, a home health service company, is hosting a free seminar: Adult Abuse & Neglect Prevention. This informative program will help direct access staff to: Recognize situations and triggers that could lead to abuse; Identify potential situations of abuse, neglect, and/or misappropriation of property; Implement practical tools to aid ... [More >>]
Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Hillsdale, MI - Residents and staff of the Litchfield Nursing Centre are finding it hard to adjust to the state–mandated closing of the facility after an inspector issued 29 citations, including charges of abuse. The facility was given notice March 30 to close in 30 days. According to T.J. Bucholz of ... [More >>]
Friday, April 13th, 2007. Hillsdale, MI - The Litchfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre has been told to close by the Michigan Department of Community Health.... After state and federal employees conducted their annual survey of the facility, mandated for long–term care, Litchfield was given 29 citations. Of those, according to the survey, three [patients] were ... [More >>]
Friday, November 24th, 2006. Mount Clemens, MI - Three former care workers at a Sterling Heights nursing home admit posing for photographs with a corpse but are fighting a criminal charge of mistreatment in what could be a precedent-setting case. Ericka Nichole Jackson, Tahirah Hasseena Shakur and Keisa E. Cooper, all of Detroit, were fired ... [More >>]
