Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Monday, May 5th, 2008. Callao, MO - A Callao woman has been charged with the theft of medications belonging to a patient at a Macon nursing home. According to Macon Police Chief Steve Olinger, the department received a report of the alleged theft. An investigation into the report found that the nursing home employee had switched ... [More >>]
Friday, September 15th, 2006. Missouri is doing a poorer job overseeing private nursing homes than it was three years ago, according to an audit released yesterday by State Auditor Claire McCaskill. McCaskill, speaking at a news conference in St. Louis, said she was discouraged by the new audit, which found a decline in the state’s ... [More >>]
Friday, September 8th, 2006. Kansas City, MO - Lax record check requirements in Missouri and many other states may have opened the door for the mother of a man who claims to have killed seven people to work in a nursing home. Shirley Bryson, who has a string of criminal convictions and is free on ... [More >>]
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006. Bolivar, MO - A Buffalo woman who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of one of the residents of the Turtle Creek group home in Bolivar was sentenced on Monday (April 10) by Polk County Circuit Judge Bill Sims to five years in prison. The charge ... [More >>]
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006. St. Louis, MO - Over the last five years, the number of serious problems detected in the nation's nursing homes has dropped. After decades of stressing the need to protect vulnerable nursing home residents, that seemed like an overdue bit of good news. It wasn't. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reported ... [More >>]
Thursday, November 17th, 2005. St. Louis, MO - A federal grand jury has indicted American Healthcare Management Inc., its Chief Executive Officer and three nursing homes. The indictment is for conspiracy connected to the failure of care and abuse of elderly residents. [Bonnie Thorpe's] mother had Alzheimer's Disease and was a resdient at Claywest House ... [More >>]
