Posts tagged Nursing Home

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• 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...

• Girard Nursing Home Fined for Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | August 29, 2007 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A nursing home in Girard, Illinois had abuse complaints lodged against it. Investigators found that the workers at Pleasant Hill Village Nursing Home was abusing residents. A fine of $25,000 was levied against the home. A February report by the Illinois Department of Public Health indicated the incidents might have started as early as August 2006.Aides allegedly poked one resident with a pin...

• 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...

• 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...

• Florida Has Weak Protection Laws for Our Seniors

  Sandy Grinnell | September 28, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Orlando Sentinel has an excellent article today on the pitfalls of the state of Florida's control over who is taking care of the elderly in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult...

• Nursing Home Must Pay Damages for Prolonging Life

  Shannon Weidemann | April 07, 2007 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A jury in Palm Beach County has decided that a nursing home must pay $150,000 in damages to a woman's family after they did not follow her living will and advance directive. The 92-year-old woman had stated that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Workers at Morse Geriatric called paramedics and had her taken to the hosptial where she died six days later after having many...

• Nursing Home Janitor Charged with Abuse

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A former nursing home employee in Palm Beach County is being charged with striking a disabled nursing home resident.He was arrested after a completed investigation by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE) team. The investigation show's he was employed as a janitor at the Nursing Center.The investigation alleges, he struck a 48-year-old...

• 2 Nurses Arrested on Numerous Nursing Home Neglect Charges

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 1:55 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  According to the Florida Attorney General, two nurses from Suwannee County nursing home have been arrested on several counts of nursing home abuse and neglect. An investigation showed they withheld medication from nursing home patients.The attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began its investigation against the two nurses last October after they had received an abuse report from the...

• 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...