Posts tagged Neglect

• Long Term Pain In Personal Injury Cases

  Joseph Bernardo | March 18, 2008 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Trauma patients in America's hospitals are not necessarily "all better" just because they are released from the hospital. A large number of those hurt in accidents and falls and are treated at hospitals are not pain free upon their release.62.7% of patients in hospital admissions from trauma had pain 12 months llater. The pain was characterized as moderately severe. More than half of these...

• Alleged Abuse at Pathways to Care in Casselberry

  Mike Damaso | February 29, 2008 5:19 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Channel 9 Eyewitness News website is reporting allegations that an employee of Pathways to Care in Casselberry has been using illegal drugs and abusing patients. The assisted living facility worker is being accused of smoking crack cocaine on the property, stealing prescription medications, and verbally abusing residents.Channel 9 attempted to get a statement from the head nurse at the...

• Nursing Home Patient Had Maggots In His Eyes

  Diego Madrigal | January 23, 2008 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A nursing home patient who was brought to the hospital with maggots in his eyes and an infected breathing tube died. The Attorney General's office is investigating possible neglect or abuse directed at the man. The man was a resident at University Center West in Deland when he was taken to the hospital with these horrible conditions. He was later moved to a hospital in Jacksonville where he...

• CNA Accused of Abusing Florida Nursing Home Resident

  Chrissie Cole | September 24, 2007 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A certified nursing home assistant has been taken into custody on allegations that she abused a nursing home resident at a Pensacola nursing home. She is accused of causing injuries to the face and neck of an Alzheimer's patient.The arrest was carried out in Louisiana by the Houma Police Department, acting on behalf of the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. "This victim was...

• Shocking Nursing Home Abuse

  Ed Normand | September 01, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Right here in Central Florida we have another example of inhumane treatment at a nursing home. The list of alleged abuses is sickening:One resident suffered with an untreated impacted bowel for three weeks until her death.A resident with Alzheimer's fell out of bed. She called for help for an hour until she crawled to a phone and called 911. Firefighters rescued her and found the 3 nursing home...

• Nursing Homes May Be Reimbursed for Employee Screening

  Sandy Grinnell | August 04, 2007 10:51 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A bill submitted by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) will allow Medicare and Medicaid to pay long term care facilities for the background check of applicants for hire. It also provides for a centralized database from all states from which the background checks can be made. The Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007, which is supported by the American Health Care Association, would allow...

• Avoid Muscle Weakness Ailment That Often Leads to Nursing Home Care

  Patricia Doherty | July 12, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The most common reasons senior citizens require nursing home care are muscle weakness, known as sarcopenia, osteoporosis and dementia, like Alzheimer's disease. While there has been publicity on osteoporosis and dementia, Americans know very little about Sarcopenia - age related loss of muscle mass. To minimize muscle loss as you age participate in strength training, eat a healthy diet, low...

• Nursing Home Faces Manslaughter Charges

  Chrissie Cole | June 25, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  If Julia McCauley,74, had been wearing the monitoring bracelet prescribed by her doctor, authorities believe the elderly resident of Life Care Center would not have plummeted to her death down a stairwell on April 17, 2004.Life Care Centers of America was indited with criminal manslaughter charges due to the workers at the Acton Life Care Center acting recklessly by not making sure the woman...

• No Penalty for Nursing Home Abuse

  Craig Cannon | April 25, 2007 8:43 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Federal health officials impose only minimal penalties on nursing homes repeatedly cited for mistreatment and abuse of patients. As a result, some nursing homes go in and out of compliance with federal standards. Those nursing homes pose a continued threat to the health and safety of patients."Some of these homes repeatedly harmed residents over a six-year period and yet remain in the Medicare...

• Janitor Charged with Striking a Nursing Home Resident

  Christina Cole | March 24, 2007 1:26 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A man has been charged with striking a disabled resident of a nursing home where he was once employed.The worker was arrested, Friday, after an investigation led by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE team). The investigation claims the worker, 56, was employed as a janitor at the Edward J. Healy Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in...