Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Sunday, August 10th, 2008. Providence, RI - Doctors in almost every state are required by law to report suspected elder abuse of their patients. But hardly any of them do, even if they fear that their silence may subject an elderly person to continued abuse at the hands of a caregiver. Physicians report just ... [More >>]
Sunday, August 12th, 2007. Bristol, RI - Frederick E. Alger says that in the seven years he has lived in the Rhode Island Veterans Home he has been ordered to take 35 mental competency evaluations.... Alger is an outspoken critic of the way the home is operated and has frequently butted heads with administrators. ... [More >>]
Sunday, August 12th, 2007. Bristol, RI - An interim report is highly critical of some operations at the Rhode Island Veterans Home, finding problems in the nursing system that include antagonism toward residents. The Providence Journal reported that the 11-page document found low morale among staff members and the abuse of some policies, including denying ... [More >>]
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007. Bristol, RI - Raymond Parent and Albert Bacur were initially thrilled to move to the Rhode Island Veterans' Home.... But after a series of what they view as administrative failures, the families wish they had never sent their loved ones to the home on 260-bed home on Metacom Avenue. Both said administrators ... [More >>]
Friday, July 20th, 2007. Providence, RI - The Health Department has ordered the Park View Nursing Home, in Providence, to immediately correct the inadequate staffing that led to repeated falls by a patient. The patient, who suffered three injuries in 11 falls between October and the end of May, was declared in “immediate jeopardy” late ... [More >>]
Friday, May 27th, 2005. PROVIDENCE, RI -- The death last year of Germine Morsilli, the 87-year-old former resident of Hillside Nursing Home in Providence, helped shine a spotlight on some of the state’s poorly operated nursing homes. House Majority Leader Gordon Fox, said of Morsilli, "How does someone in this century die of bedsores?" ... [More >>]
