April 12, 2013
Corporate Assisted Living Facility Charged with Nursing Home Abuse, Concern Over Money Instead of Patient Welfare In Sacramento, California, a jury awarded $23 million in punitive damages to the family of an 81-year-old woman who died because the assisted living facility operator Emeritus focused on profits over care, leading to serious nursing home abuse problems. The [...]
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April 12, 2013
New Study Shows that Elder Abuse Increases Risk of Physical Problems and Hospitalization While it might be obvious that elder abuse in the form of physical abuse and neglect can lead to hospitalization, a new study shows that psychological and financial elder abuse are also factors in illness that leads to hospitalization. The Chicago Health and Aging [...]
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April 12, 2013
Four-Year-Long Study Shows SC Residential Care Facilities Make No Progress A major study released on Tuesday, April 9th shows that, after four years of study, South Carolina residential care facilities are still dirty and inadequate, which puts their residents at risk of abuse and neglect. The 60-page report was released by Columbia-based advocacy group Protection & Advocacy [...]
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April 7, 2013
Nursing Home in California Fined for Overmedicating Patient Which Led to Death The California Department of Public Health fined a Lincoln nursing home $100,000 for overmedicating an 82-year-old stroke patient, who died from complications in 2011. The citation was a Class AA citation, the strongest that the California Department of Public Health could impose on a [...]
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March 29, 2013
Nursing Home in Connecticut Fined After Patient Neglect Led to Festering Wounds The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) cited the Candlewood Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center in New Milford for patient neglect – specifically, failing to provide adequate care to a resident who needed wound treatment. The patient, who was diagnosed with dementia and depressive disorder [...]
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March 12, 2013
As Elder Abuse Problem Grows, Some Nursing Homes Open Rooms for Emergency Placement As the elderly population increases, concern has been growing about abuse and neglect in nursing homes. However, elder abuse is also a growing problem among in-home caretakers, particularly with relatives of the elderly victims. Now, some nursing homes are setting aside bedrooms [...]
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March 11, 2013
Report of Nursing Home Abuse in Indiana Leads to Charges Against Six Employees On Monday, February 11th, six people were received charges in a nursing home abuse investigation, led by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Indiana Attorney General’s office. A complaint triggered the nursing home abuse investigation. According to the complaint, a resident of [...]
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March 8, 2013
Woman Dies in CA Independent Living Facility when Staff Refuses to Give Her CPR An elderly woman at an independent living facility in Central California died last week after collapsing in the dining room. According to the facility’s policies, staff are not allowed to perform CPR on residents, but they do call emergency services when the [...]
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February 25, 2013
An Internal Investigation Into Allegations of Serious Nursing Home Abuse in SC Finalized After a very serious incident of nursing home abuse was reported to Mt. Pleasant Manor Nursing Facility and Mt. Pleasant police, the nursing facility conducted an internal investigation and will be adding security to their facility. In December 2012, a grievous complaint [...]
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February 21, 2013
Nursing Home Neglect Led Directly to Patient’s Death in Minnesota Last May, an 86-year-old patient died in Minnesota due to nursing home neglect. The Minnesota Department of Health investigated Luvern Kraft’s death, and determined that the CNA’s negligence was the cause. According to her own self-reporting, the nurse claimed that she was “too tired,” and wasn’t [...]
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