Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Flim-Flam On Nursing Home Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 11, 2006 7:25 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Nursing Home Residents Storm Tallahassee To Protest Legislature's Dishonesty - that should be the headline in newspapers throughout the State of Florida. The legislative flim-flam that took away their rights in exchange for promised improvements in nursing home care that will likely never occur should be recognized for what it was. It was a fraud, pure and simple. Read the story from the...

• Long Shadow Inn Fails Its Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 10, 2006 5:27 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  My father lived for more than four years at the end of his life at an assisted living facility in Palm Harbor. He received excellent and compassionate services in a setting that was safe and properly supervised. That same facility has now been shut down by state officials because of health and safety violations. What could have caused the changes at the Long Shadow Inn in the years since my...

• Nursing Home Denies Resident His Rights Before He Moves In

  Bob Carroll | December 22, 2005 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A Florida nursing home has devised a scheme to deny its residents important rights before they even move into the facility. A Florida Appellate Court found that the nursing home effectively buried an agreement requiring arbitration and limiting liability in a package of documents that the resident's daughter was asked to sign while her father was on route from the hospital to the home. Holding...

• Rocky Times For Nursing Home Resident Leads To Death

  Bob Carroll | October 21, 2005 4:10 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Rocky Mountain News tells the story of Manuela Beltran who died in a nursing home from starvation and dehydration after she was given almost nothing to drink or eat for nine days, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Denver. The details of this lawsuit show just how rocky life was for the deceased during 10 days in December.From the Rocky Mountain News comes the story of Manuela Beltran who...

• Flaws In Florida Emergency Requirements For Nursing Homes

  Bob Carroll | October 17, 2005 7:36 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  After Katrina we were shocked at the disaster in some nursing homes in New Orleans. Florida nursing home residents may not have faired any better. Last month's mandatory evacuation of the Florida Keys lashed by Hurricane Rita revealed critical flaws in the state's elaborate emergency requirements for nursing homes.In the afternath of Katrina we were shocked at the disaster in some nursing...

• Blame The Children Of The Nursing Home Residents?

  Bob Carroll | September 22, 2005 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Just who is responsible for the timely and safe evacuation of the residents of nursing homes?The Louisiana Attorney General has got it right. The professions who were entrusted with the lives of their residents had the responsibility to provide a timely and safe evacuation. The relatives of the deceased residents will forever live with their loss and do not need the additional burden of the...