Federal regulators have designated a Rochester nursing home one of the worst for patient care and safety in the country. New Roc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has just been added to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Special Focus Facility (SFF) list. Read more at whec.com
Tuesday the 23rd
The video doesn’t lie. And it led to Jason Nixon’s arrest and conviction. Monday, Nixon was sentenced to a year in jail for physically hurting two elderly people at a nursing facility in Clearfield. Read more at abc4.com.
Tuesday the 16th
Bertha Davis fell down at her nursing home, the Pensacola Health Care Facility, on April 24, 2012.The fall caused a blood vessel to burst and blood to begin pooling in a portion of her brain. Four days later, the 78-year-old woman died. Read more at pnj.com
Thursday the 11th
Millington police are investigating another possible case of elder abuse at a health care facility, after WREG reported on another allegation there in February. Read more at wreg.com
Tuesday the 9th
Bradick Barrett served two tours of duty in Iraq, but it was only after he was back home in Missouri that his sisters started fearing for his safety. Read more at fox4kc.com
Tuesday the 2nd
Betsy Crane had already fallen 19 times while in the care of the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Westboro. Read more at homenewshere.com
Tuesday the 26th
It was the summer of 2015, and Betty Crane was looking forward to her 70th wedding anniversary in December. But at a press conference at the Massachusetts attorney general’s office Wednesday, Crane’s daughter, Candi Hitchcock, said her mother didn’t make it past August. A caretaker at the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Westborough […]
Thursday the 21st
Six Iowa nursing home employees have been indicted for obtaining prescription drugs that were meant for the people they were caring for. Four women from the Des Moines metro and two from southern Iowa are accused of diverting drugs from nursing home residents to themselves, according to a news release from the office of Marc […]
Tuesday the 19th
Rosewood Care Center has been fined for incidents related to the abuse and neglect of patients. The 120-bed facility at 7300 34th Ave. was cited for three licensure violations, all of high-risk designation, and its fine for the incidents was therefore doubled to $2,200. Read more at qconline.com
Thursday the 14th
The family of an elderly man who died at a nursing home here says the facility caused him excessive suffering and sped up his death. Read more at mercurynews.com
Tuesday the 12th