Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008. Kennewick,WA - Dealing with loved ones in long-term care facilities is hard enough without suddenly learning their care has been so inadequate they need to be moved -- immediately. But such was the case recently at the Walla Walla VA Medical Center. In a little more than a year, the ... [More >>]
Thursday, July 24th, 2008. Yakima, WA - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has shut down its 30-bed nursing home in Walla Walla after an outside review raised concerns about the quality of care, and an internal audit validated those concerns. Just 10 nursing beds were occupied. The Long Term Care Institute was contracted by the ... [More >>]
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008. Seattle, WA - King County prosecutors say they may seek an exceptional sentence against a caregiver accused of raping a disabled woman at a Kent nursing home. "It makes you angry," says Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan. The 31-year-old Kent man, Joseph Thurura, was arrested Wednesday and charged Tuesday with second-degree rape. ... [More >>]
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008. Union Gap, WA - Parkside Nursing Care Center, which has a recent history of serious problems with regulators, was cited Tuesday for failing to follow physician orders in caring for an elderly man who suffered from bedsores. The patient died last month at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital from an infection, but ... [More >>]
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008. Yakima, WA - State health officials summarily suspended the license Thursday of a male nurse in Yakima who allegedly molested a girl over a 10-year period, begining when she was 6 or 7. The registered nurse, 53, used his position of trust and authority as a health care provider to gain ... [More >>]
Saturday, March 15th, 2008. Yakima, WA - Last summer, an elderly woman living at Carol's Country Touch on South 32nd Avenue in Yakima told invest-igators that the operator of the adult group home launched into "tirades" if she became incontinent, and grabbed her harshly and angrily if she was moving too slowly with her ... [More >>]
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Seattle, WA - Four Washington state facilities have landed on the federal government's list of worst nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday made public the names of "Special Focus Facilities" -- including nursing homes in Auburn, Centralia, Longview and Spokane -- that get closer oversight. To ... [More >>]
Friday, May 11th, 2007. McKenna, WA - A Pierce County nursing home is under fire after a patient died from an overdose of morphine. Seventy-nine-year-old Florence Pierpoint was diagnosed with lung cancer, but that's not what killed her. According to a Pierce County medical examiner, she died from acute morphine poisoning administered by health care providers ... [More >>]
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007. Tacoma, WA - The family of Florence Pierpoint, a 79-year old nursing home patient who died while in the care of a Tacoma nursing home, today filed a lawsuit against the home operator after a Pierce County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by a morphine overdose. The complaint ... [More >>]
Sunday, April 1st, 2007. Walla Walla, WA - The elderly can be victims of abuse in many of the same ways as the young, but with fewer eyes watching and more perceived social taboos, professionals say. Data indicate only a a quarter of all senior abuse cases are referred for help - the rest remain ... [More >>]
