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	<title>Nursing Home Abuse News &#187; Washington</title>
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		<title>VA should have given more notice of facility&#8217;s closure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kennewick,WA &#8211; 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 &#8212; immediately. But such was the case recently at the Walla Walla VA Medical Center. In a little more than a year, the center&#8217;s nursing home went from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA shuts down Wash. nursing home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yakima, WA &#8211; 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 VA nationally to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caregiver accused of nursing home rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle, WA &#8211; King County prosecutors say they may seek an exceptional sentence against a caregiver accused of raping a disabled woman at a Kent nursing home. &#34;It makes you angry,&#34; says Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan. The 31-year-old Kent man, Joseph Thurura, was arrested Wednesday and charged Tuesday with second-degree rape.]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing home cited: Facility didn&#8217;t follow doctor&#8217;s orders for man who later died</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union Gap, WA &#8211; 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 state authorities couldn&#8217;t find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurse accused of abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yakima, WA &#8211; 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 physical access to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group home license revoked for abuse of residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yakima, WA &#8211; Last summer, an elderly woman living at Carol&#8217;s Country Touch on South 32nd Avenue in Yakima told invest-igators that the operator of the adult group home launched into &#8220;tirades&#8221; if she became incontinent, and grabbed her harshly and angrily if she was moving too slowly with her walker. Carol Winters, operator of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Washington Nursing Homes Get Lowest Rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle, WA &#8211; Four Washington state facilities have landed on the federal government&#8217;s list of worst nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday made public the names of &#8220;Special Focus Facilities&#8221; &#8212; including nursing homes in Auburn, Centralia, Longview and Spokane &#8212; that get closer oversight. To make it onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierce County nursing home accused of abuse, neglect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 17:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McKenna, WA &#8211; 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&#8217;s not what killed her. According to a Pierce County medical examiner, she died from acute morphine poisoning administered by health care providers at Nisqually Valley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tacoma Nursing Home Death Ruled Homicide by Coroner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 17:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tacoma, WA &#8211; 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 cites allegations of abuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many elder-abuse cases go unreported: Seniors are frequently reluctant to involve police or social-service agencies, officials say</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; the rest remain hidden. That compares to [...]]]></description>
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