Archive: Nursing Home Abuse Oklahoma
Friday, November 30th, 2007.
Oklahoma City, OK - An administrator whose Oklahoma City nursing home made the list of the 54 worst centers for patient care in the nation vows to ensure proper care for residents and adherence to the rules.
Barbie Harter said today -- her first day on the job -- that any ... [More >>]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007.
Tulsa, OK - There is an arrest warrant out for a Tulsa nursing home worker. Prosecutors believe Paula Drew is responsible for second-degree burns on two patients in her care. News On 6 anchor Terry Hood reports that investigators say the patients were burned because they were left in a ... [More >>]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007.
Tulsa, OK - During the next two weeks that her sister stayed at Green Park [Nursing and Rehabilitation Center], [Susan] Coman said she was shocked at the treatment she witnessed.
"One day I came in and she was laying on the bed with no sheets and her yellow robe on and ... [More >>]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007.
Tulsa, OK - Tulsa Police, the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, and the state Department of Health are investing an abuse case at the Green Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Authorities say the victim, who is blind and mentally disabled, suffered second degree burns to his torso, legs and genitals, in a ... [More >>]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005.
Norman, OK - A former caretaker at the Noble Health Care Center has been charged in Cleveland County with abusing two patients, one a 103-year-old woman.
Lynn H. Smith, 27, of Noble faces two felony counts of caretaker abuse and a count of verbal abuse filed Friday in Cleveland County District ... [More >>]
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Friday, September 16th, 2005.
OK - The proposed fines against Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. of Sallisaw are being appealed and the more than $400,000 in fines remain in dispute.
A year ago, the state health department announced it was seeking the fines against a Hominy nursing home owned by the Sallisaw company where investigators found ... [More >>]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005.
Tulsa, OK - A nursing home group that has eleven homes in Oklahoma continues operating despite not having paid a more than $450,000.00 fine last year.
The state Health Department proposed the fine against Oklahoma Nursing Homes because of abuse and neglect inspectors found at the Hominy Nursing Home. The home ... [More >>]
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