Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. El Paso, TX - Why would the state go to extraordinary lengths to stop an El Paso judge and lawyer from uncovering abuse of the elderly and incapacitated? Perhaps a history lesson is in order. Two years ago, El Paso County Probate Judge Max Higgs and lawyer Terry Hammond made national ... [More >>]
Monday, May 1st, 2006. Austin, TX - On Dec. 22, 2005, a former Hillsboro nursing home activity director pled guilty to two charges of fraudulent use of identifying information. A Hillsboro Police Department investigator discovered the woman had stolen the personal information of two residents to obtain utility services at her personal residence and ... [More >>]
Friday, March 31st, 2006. TX - Texas Legal Services Center is starting a new hotline aimed at helping nursing home or assisted living center residents report crimes. The TLSC created the hotline through a grant from the Attorney General of Texas Crime Victims Services Division. “Our goal on the new hotline is to help victims ... [More >>]
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006. Wichita Falls, TX - A Wichita Falls nurses aide is out on bond after a 76-year-old nursing home patient reported he was beaten. The River Oaks Care Center patient told police 45-year-old Barara Johnson Walton became very rough while bathing him and he cried out in pain. He said Walton ... [More >>]
Thursday, October 27th, 2005. Lubbock, TX - Lubbock County Sheriff's deputies and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot's criminal officers arrested a nurse at a nursing home in Brownfield Oct. 20 on warrants connected to a September indictment on two counts of injury to disabled persons. Tiffany Cunningham, a certified nurse aide employed at the Bender ... [More >>]
Thursday, October 20th, 2005. Austin, TX - The president of the Coastal Bend Chapter, Texas Advocates for Nursing Home Residents, urged Texas lawmakers on Thursday to hold hearings into whether recent nursing home ownership changes are putting the state's 85,000 elderly residents at risk. Libby Edwards, of Corpus Christi, said her organization is concerned by ... [More >>]
Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Dallas, TX - Texas regulators said Friday they don't have copies of nursing home evacuation plans and don't know whether too many homes rely on too few transportation contractors. The admission, following a charter bus explosion that killed elderly evacuees and days of freeway gridlock, added to mounting questions about state ... [More >>]
Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Corporate owners such as the ones that run McAllen Nursing Center have little to fear financially if a vocational nurse or a poorly trained nurse’s aide negligently kills a patient. When Martinez family members tried to file a lawsuit following Noe Sr.’s death, they ran hard into one of Texas’ most ... [More >>]
