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		<title>Group home license revoked for abuse of residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yakima, WA - 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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vets home care criticized before state lawmakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dover, DE - The Delaware Veterans Home near Milford is not providing quality care to its residents, a joint legislative committee was told today.
“The residents are not getting good care because they are falling through the cracks,” said Diane Draper McGuire, a nursing-home administrator who, after a personal investigation, attributed problems in large part to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold all caregivers to same standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Des Moines, IA - The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals regulates nursing homes and can pursue dependent-adult abuse charges against workers in these homes. If a caregiver sexually abuses or steals from a resident, the state agency can take action. But the inspections department cannot pursue abuse charges against a worker in an assisted-living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man who admitted abuse released; Simons set free after court threw out conviction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corvallis, OR - Michael Simons ran like a free man after being released out the back door of the Benton County jail on Friday morning. But his first action after spending four years in prison was to dart across the street to see a parole officer.
Simons, 27, confessed to the rape, sodomy and sexual abuse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elderly-abuse.com/wordpress/2008/03/07/man-who-admitted-abuse-released-simons-set-free-after-court-threw-out-conviction/</link>
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		<title>Nursing home bill ignores quality of care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Murfreesboro, TN - Wake up Tennesseans, seniors and your families! At some point in our lifetime, the pending legislation before the House (House bill 4053) and the Senate (Senate bill 4075) can affect your very lives. Summaries of both these bills can be found at http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills.

In essence the nursing home industry is putting itself in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 area nursing homes cited by state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Utica, NY - Three area nursing homes were cited for deficiencies of care in recent months by the state Department of Health. 
According to a recent report from the Long Term Care Community Coalition, the three local nursing home facilities failed to pass all aspects of a standard health inspection: 

Katherine Luther Nursing Home, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elderly-abuse.com/wordpress/2008/03/06/3-area-nursing-homes-cited-by-state/</link>
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		<title>Central Florida Woman Accused Of Chili Pepper Sex Assault On Teen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne, FL - A 40-year-old Central Florida woman is accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl with yellow chili peppers.
Investigators said the woman, who works at the Carnagie Gardens Nursing Home Center in Melbourne, beat the victim with an iron and iron cord after she arrived home.
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		<description><![CDATA[Des Moines, IA - A bill that would close loopholes in Iowa&#8217;s elder-abuse law is drawing criticism from health industry officials and lawmakers who fear that it could &#8220;criminalize&#8221; the nursing profession.
The bill would modify Iowa&#8217;s dependent-adult abuse law to create slightly broader definitions of &#8220;caretakers&#8221; and &#8220;dependent adults.&#8221;
Under the current law, some employees of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elderly-abuse.com/wordpress/2008/03/05/745/</link>
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		<title>End Iowa&#8217;s bonus for nursing homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Des Moines, IA - Say you&#8217;re a nursing-home owner fined by the state for providing poor care. Can&#8217;t pay up? There&#8217;s hope. Maybe another arm of state government will award you a &#8220;performance-based&#8221; bonus that will more than cover the cost of penalties.
This is the absurd gist of what&#8217;s going on with Iowa nursing homes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elderly-abuse.com/wordpress/2008/03/05/end-iowas-bonus-for-nursing-homes/</link>
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		<title>Nursing home bill cuts patients&#8217; legal redress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again the nursing home industry has proposed legislation to protect itself from the consequences of less than quality care in our long-term care facilities, familiarly known as nursing homes. House bill 4053 and Senate bill 4075 summaries can be found at http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills. Every Tennessean, seniors and their families, should be aware and concerned about [...]]]></description>
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