Posts tagged Nursing Home Abuse

• Long-term Care in Nursing Homes

  Rick Patterson | February 14, 2008 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  An overhaul of Tennessee's state services to the elderly and disabled may not be in the too distant future. A long-term care study committee will be drafting recommendations to overhaul the current system. The state could pay Tennesseans to take care of relatives and friends rather than sending them to nursing homes. "Govenor Phil Bredesen said he will work with lawmakers to "fundamentally...

• Woman Dies in Nursing Home Due to Lack of Care

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2007 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Nursing home care has long been a concern. Families leave their loved ones in the care of others and many times that care falls short of what one would expect. Recently a nursing home known as Pacific Coast Manor was issued the most severe citation under state law. In addition to the citation, they were fined $100,000 after a state investigation concluded inadequate care led to the death of a...

• Camden Police Officers Indicted for Fraud

  Rick Patterson | November 22, 2007 8:12 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  It is believed that 1 in 20 of our elderly are victims of nursing home abuse, according to the National Center for Elder Abuse. In fact as many as 57% of nursing aids have admitted witnessing abuse. Some have evan participated in the abuse. The report sites problems in the industry such as chronic understaffing and inadequate pay for workers. . Two hearings were held yesterday. Committees from...

• Nursing Home Abuse/Neglect & Little known facts

  Susy Owen | September 29, 2007 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Would it surprise you to know that nursing home abuse and neglect is more prevalent in facilities that are owned by private investment firms. With many of our elderly in need of nursing homes in terms of business there is big money to be made. And that fact has not gone unnoticed by investment firms. However, business are looking at their bottom line and are often employ aggressive cost cutting...

• Nursing Home Abuse

  Rick Patterson | September 02, 2007 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  An Oklahoma judge sentenced a former nursing home aide to a six-year prison sentence for scalding two residents of a nursing home. She was charged with two counts of neglect. Paula Marie Drew, a 41 year-old, worked at Green Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Apparently, she put two residents in an overheated shower, which resulted in severe burns. Unfortunitly, nursing home neglect is all too...

• Nursing Home Abuse Caught on Tape

  Chrissie Cole | September 01, 2007 9:27 PM | 0 CommentsModesto, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A hidden video camera captured a home caregiver abusing the 90-year old man she was supposed to be caring for.The man's daughter suspected nursing home abuse and neglect and set up a hidden camera. The video was horrific as you might imagine..."She takes her fist and hitting him in the chest. She was hitting him in the stomach. Hitting him in the arm, and when we look back a few days before, she...

• The Cost of Nursing Home Care

  Rick Patterson | August 11, 2007 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Nursing home chain, Manor Care, is the largest nursing home chain in the United States. This year a private equity group purchased the chain. That transaction made Manor Care's CEO Paul Ormond between $118 and $186 million richer. As is the case with all nursing home chains, most of Manor Care's revenues come from public programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Toby S. Edelman of the Center for...

• Sexual Abuse at Nursing Home

  Chrissie Cole | July 31, 2007 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Following the arrest of a nursing home worker brought up on sexual abuse charges, several more victims are coming forward, according to Salt Lake Police.In less than one day they have received over a dozen calls from people who may not have been taken seriously in their original complaint against the worker.Detective Jared Wihongi says, "Some of the calls have involved people with elderly...

• Nursing Home Sexual Abuse

  Susy Owen | July 14, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In a Utah case Jacob Bolith was booked on sexual abuse charges. He was accused of sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman at a Salt Lake nursing home. The police say more and more people are now coming forward with similar charges."Detective Jared Wihongi says, "Some of the calls have involved people with elderly parents that for some reason or another didn't take seriously the complaints the...

• Preventing Nursing Home Abuse

  Susy Owen | July 06, 2007 6:26 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  It is sad to say that nursing home abuse and neglect is an even bigger problem that many may realize. The truth is, by both witness accounts and survey results it seems that the problem is underreported. When you take into consideration the rise in our elderly population and the fact that more and more elderly will seek nursing home care in the coming years, staff shortage is sure to add to the...