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		<title>Nursing home investigators find widespread deficiencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Paul, MN &#8211; Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, congressional investigators said in a new report. Investigators from the Government Accountability Office said found widespread &#34;understatement of deficiencies,&#34; including malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of prescription medications and abuse of nursing home residents.]]></description>
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		<title>Financial abuse of county’s elderly citizens is on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blomkest, MN &#8211; An increasing number of elderly residents are being financially exploited by their children. In 2007, Kandiyohi County social workers received 40 reports of financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. That was up from 20 reports the previous year. The five-year average was 26 cases.]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paul police seek to launch new unit on elder abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Paul, MN &#8211; St. Paul police are seeking a grant to start a unit that would investigate elder abuse cases, said Sgt. Ann Bebeau, who, with Sgt. Mike Wortman, investigated this case. About 800 suspected elder-abuse cases are reported in St. Paul each year, she said. &#34;Between 2000 and 2030, the population of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eveleth nursing home fires employee accused of abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duluth, MN &#8211; A female nursing assistant at a Benedictine Health System facility in Eveleth has been fired after allegations that the employee emotionally abused a resident. According to a Minnesota Department of Health report, a nursing assistant at St. Raphael’s Health and Rehabilitation Center on July 14 allegedly told a resident in graphic language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rochester, MN &#8211; A home caregiver is someone who&#8217;s supposed to have your parent or grand parent&#8217;s best interest in hand, but how do you find the best one? In this horrific video a home caregiver is caught beating up the 90 year-old disabled man she worked for. The man&#8217;s daughter suspected abuse and set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report cites emotional abuse at nursing home: Investigation says worker used resident&#8217;s dementia against her</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grand Rapids, MN &#8211; An employee of a Grand Rapids, Minn., nursing home emotionally abused one of its residents this spring, telling a woman suffering from dementia that he would &#8220;kill&#8221; her baby doll, according to the results of a state investigation released this week. The employee, a certified nursing assistant, was accused of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four officials quit amid veterans home violations; Health Department order cites 28 deficiencies in late July</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN &#8211; Four Minneapolis Veterans Home administrators resigned this week after receiving an order from the state Health Department to correct 28 deficiencies in nursing home care. The remaining staff has roughly one week left to fix most of the problems. The violations generally involved poor supervision or care of patients and often mentioned [...]]]></description>
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