Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008. Columbia, SC - Residents of a Columbia nursing home that the S.C. Department of Mental Health operates have suffered preventable deaths, injuries and illnesses because the department failed to provide them with adequate care. Running afoul of generally accepted professional standards, the inadequate care violated rights of the residents outlined in ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 24th, 2008. Edgefield, SC - Claims of elder abuse have surfaced at an Edgefield nursing home. An 81 year old man says a nurse punched him in the eye. "I'm feelin' bad," said 81 year old Venson Rodgers. He says a nurse at the Trinity Mission Health and Rehab Center punched him. "I think ... [More >>]
Friday, November 30th, 2007. Columbia, SC - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday released the first-ever ranking of the 54 worst-performing nursing homes in the country, and two South Carolina facilities are on the list. Ridgeview Manor is in Hopkins, east of Columbia. Magnolia Manor is in Moncks Corner. Ridgeview Manor had 31 ... [More >>]
Monday, November 19th, 2007. Beaufort, SC - The former nursing home employee accused of tossing an 89-year-old woman into a hallway has turned herself in, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report. Saffiyah S. Scott, 28, of Ridgeland was charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult, a felony carrying up to five years in prison. ... [More >>]
Friday, November 9th, 2007. Bluffton, SC - A former nursing home employee is wanted on an elder abuse charge after allegedly throwing an 89-year-old woman out of a room and into the hallway Dec. 31, 2006. The victim flew between 3 and 5 feet before landing on the floor at Carolina House of Bluffton, 800 ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 19th, 2007. Georgetown, SC - Georgetown police have determined there is no evidence to support one of the recent complaints filed against Georgetown Healthcare and Rehab in Maryville. In March, police were called to the facility at 2715 South Island Road because a resident, a 55-60 year old man, claimed to have been ... [More >>]
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007. Georgetown, SC - Georgetown police are investigating another case of reported patient abuse at a local nursing home. On Friday, officers responded to Georgetown Healthcare and Rehab at 2715 South Island Road and met with the director and a representative from the S.C. Department of Social Services. They said the patient ... [More >>]
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007. Georgetown, SC - Possible abuse at a local nursing home is being investigated by the Georgetown Police Department and the state. On Friday, police took a report about a woman whose 89-year-old mother is a resident of Georgetown Healthcare Assisted Living on South Island Road. The woman said she was visiting ... [More >>]
Friday, September 15th, 2006. Union, SC - A former nursing home employee has been charged with sexually assaulting an elderly patient, the State Law Enforcement Division says. John Richard Gregory, 31, of Union, faces two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. The certified nursing assistant sexually assaulted a 74-year-old patient at Ellen Sagar Nursing Home in ... [More >>]
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006. Greenwood, SC - A Greenwood caregiver has been charged with physically and verbally abusing nursing home residents. Forty-nine-year-old Lizette Vernell Henderson faces six felony counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult. Greenwood County authorities allege Henderson abused three men and three women between ages 69 and 94 living at Emerald Gardens.
