Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Thursday, September 27th, 2007. Lancaster, OH - Fairfield County authorities are investigating the death of a 100-year-old nursing-home resident who fell Sunday in front of the facility. Edith West was sitting in a wheelchair in front of Heartland Fairfield Nursing Center near Pleasantville when she rolled into the parking lot and fell out of the ... [More >>]
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007. Cincinnati, OH - A worker accused of hitting a patient at a Warren County Nursing home faced a judge Tuesday morning. Police said Carrie Marshall hit an epileptic patient at Cedarview Healthcare Center on Oregonia Road in Lebanon.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007. Ravenna, OH - The administrator of a county-owned nursing home in northeast Ohio where state investigators determined that a frail female resident was sexually assaulted resigned on Tuesday, a county commissioner said. Portage County commissioners accepted Gary Borrelli's resignation and placed Berea-based Generations HealthCare Management in charge of operations at The ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 20th, 2007. Ravenna, OH - Criminal charges are being considered after state health investigators determined that a frail resident of a county-owned nursing home was sexually abused by a visitor. Ohio Department of Health investigators visited The Woodlands at Robinson facility in mid-August to look into the abuse allegation and concluded that a ... [More >>]
Sunday, September 16th, 2007. Ravenna, OH - Portage County officials will meet Monday in executive session to continue their investigation as to what went wrong at the county's nursing home, The Woodlands at Robinson. The nursing home has been cited by the Ohio Department of Health for failing to keep a frail woman resident ... [More >>]
Sunday, September 16th, 2007. Bedford, OH - Portage County commissioners are planning to hire a firm to review operations at The Woodlands at Robinson "from top to bottom" and make recommendations to remedy the shortcomings that put the county-run facility's Medicare/Medicaid status in jeopardy. It shouldn't take an outside firm to answer these questions: Why ... [More >>]
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007. Ravenna, OH - A frail female resident at the Portage County-owned nursing home was molested on numerous occasions by a visitor, and administrators failed to protect her from the assaults, a state investigation has found. The Ohio Department of Health is recommending severe financial penalties for The Woodlands at Robinson including ... [More >>]
Sunday, February 11th, 2007. Xenia, OH - A former nursing home aide accused of hitting a male resident in the face is scheduled to be in Greene County Common Pleas Court next week on a charge of patient abuse. Keyetta Keller, 22, is free pending arraignment Feb. 16. The charge stems from a report by ... [More >>]
Saturday, December 16th, 2006. Cadiz, OH - The Ohio Department of Health confirmed Friday night that the Carriage Inn is facing two counts of resident abuse. Investigators said the incidents occurred on Nov. 20 and 21. The first count alleges resident-to-resident abuse and the second alleges a staff member of verbally abused a resident. State law ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 21st, 2006. Hillsdale, OH - Two former nursing home executives who have been charged with patient abuse face preliminary hearings next week in Hillsdale Circuit Court. The Michigan Attorney General's Office filed two counts of nursing home patient abuse against Laura Tackett, the former director of nursing at Litchfield Nursing Centre in Litchfield. In ... [More >>]
