Owner of Adult Care Home Faces Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Charges The owner of a Williston, FL care home was charged on Thursday, October 3rd, with serious nursing home abuse charges, including failure to provide beds, straining a resident with handcuffs, abusing and neglecting residents, and other crimes. Priscilla Smith Johnson was charged with false imprisonment, aggravated abuse and … [Read more...]
South Dakota Nursing Home Abuse Case Goes to Trial
September 5, 2013 By
Opening Statements in Nursing Home Abuse Trial in South Dakota On Tuesday, August 27th, a jury heard the opening statements in the trial of a former nurse at a Dell Rapids, SD nursing home, who has been accused of nursing home abuse. Heather Lynn Laird, 36, pleaded not guilty earlier this year to one count of nursing home abuse, specifically abusing a disabled adult. She is currently free on a … [Read more...]
New Report Shows Which States Have Worst Nursing Home Abuse Rates
August 16, 2013 By
Florida-Based Advocacy Group Against Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citizens. Families for … [Read more...]
Two Arizona CNAs Arrested for Nursing Home Abuse
July 24, 2013 By
Reports of Injured 93-Year-Old Led to Two Former Employees’ Arrest and Nursing Home Abuse Charges After a 93-year-old woman’s injuries were discovered in a Tuscon skilled nursing facility, two former employees were arrested on nursing home abuse charges. According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the woman was a resident of the Asterion Acres Home. Staff notified police about the abuse, … [Read more...]
Woman Uses Surveillance Camera to Capture Nursing Home Abuse
June 11, 2012 By
South Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Through surveillance footage, a woman was able to capture the abuse of her mother at the hands of nursing home caretakers. Jane Worroll used an alarm clock with a built in camera to capture workers, physically and emotionally abusing her mother over a two day period, at Ash Court nursing home in North London. Worroll became suspicious when she … [Read more...]
Health Officials Hear More Complaints About Nursing Facilities
January 25, 2012 By
There are more than 400 nursing facilities across North Carolina and South Carolina designed to provide therapy and safe homes for thousands of seniors. But a woman from Concord, NC is complaining that her husband was severely neglected at one of them. Some local health officials said despite how highly regulated the system is, they hear dozens of similar complaints every week and worry that … [Read more...]
Cost of Long-Term Care Significantly Increases
January 25, 2012 By
South Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Recently, the Metlife Mature Market Institute released its annual survey of the cost of long-term care services, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day programs, and home care. And the results were anything but cheap. Overall, provider costs rose far faster than the rate of inflation. The only exceptions were home care services, … [Read more...]
Nursing Home Patient Falls After Staff Ignores Her Calls
November 18, 2011 By
South Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers According to a lawsuit filed in Florida, a nursing home resident fell and broke her wrist when she tried to get out of bed after the staff did not respond to her calls for assistance. The victim says that the licensees and operators of the nursing home are directly responsible for her continued pain and limited mobility. The patient, who was … [Read more...]
SC Receives $11.25M to Improve Patient Care
November 2, 2011 By
South Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers The Duke Endowment recently issued Health Sciences South Carolina, a South Carolina health care group with a $11.25 million grant to improve patient care through data collection. Health Sciences South Carolina is a statewide biomedical research organization comprised of several hospital systems and three universities. Dr. Iain Sanderson, Health … [Read more...]
Strom Law Firm Nursing Home Task Force
October 26, 2011 By
South Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Founded by former U.S. State Attorney Pete Strom in 1996, the Strom Law Firm has been fighting elder abuse cases for 15 years. The nursing home abuse lawyers at the Strom Law Firm take an aggressive approach to confronting the kind of egregious misconduct found in nursing home abuse and neglect cases. We represent elderly clients and families who have … [Read more...]
