Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nursing Homes May Be Reimbursed for Employee Screening

  Sandy Grinnell | August 04, 2007 10:51 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  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...

• Medical Malpractice Lawyers for Injured People Need To Learn Simplicity

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | August 02, 2007 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The lawyers in my law firm Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis and Appleton exclusively handle injury and wrongful death cases and only do them on behalf of the injured people and families never the insurance companies. We are always tying to continue our legal education to make sure to do the very best job possible in court in the complicated area of medical malpractice lawsuits. When...

• $160 Million Nursing Home Abuse Verdict

  Ken Margolin | August 02, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Corporate nursing home officials who bank on jurors discounting residents' injuries from nursing home abuse, because of their age or pre-existing illness, may think again after a $160 million dollar verdict in Texas. The victim of the abuse was an 81 year old resident of the Comanche Trail Nursing Home in Big Spring, Texas. Nursing home personnel assigned him a new roommate who was mentally ill...

• Nursing Home Aide Arrested for Sexual Abuse of Resident

  Chrissie Cole | August 02, 2007 12:31 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Many more victims of nursing home abuse are coming forward after the arrest of a nursing home worker who has been brought up on sexual abuse charges, according to Salt Lake Police.In just one day, over a dozen phone calls have been received by people who may not have been taken seriously in their original complaint against the male nursing home worker.Some of the calls involved people with...

• Sexual Abuse at Nursing Home

  Chrissie Cole | July 31, 2007 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  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 Charged Criminally for Abuse

  Matt Christian | July 31, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Life Care Centers of America pled not guilty this week to charges of manslaughter, abuse and neglect, and filing false Medicare claims. The charges against the Tennessee based chain come in the wake of an investigation in the death of a 74 year-old woman in Massachussetts.McCauley, a resident confined to a wheelchair at the Life Care Center of Acton, died after wheeling herself out of front...

• Celina Nursing Home Cited for Bad Conditions

  Shannon Weidemann | July 27, 2007 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A nursing home in Celina was inspected by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services and found that the conditions were so bad that a trustee was appointed to run the home. The nursing home neglect was found at the Amberwood Care Center. Among other things, the investigation found patients suffering from bed ulcers, a tracheotomy tube "coated with crust" and ventilators set at...

• Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Cases

  Rob McKinney | July 25, 2007 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Winston Churchill once said " The greatest gift the English people gave America was the right to a trial by jury ". Nursing home operators do not believe in this fundamental right . Nursing homes have been placing arbitration clauses in their contracts which prevents one from suing the nursing home if they are negligent . These arbitration clauses prevent the nursing homes...

• Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Cases(2)

  Rob McKinney | July 25, 2007 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Winston Churchill once said " The greatest gift the English people gave America was the right to a trial by jury ". Nursing home operators do not believe in this fundamental right . Nursing homes have been placing arbitration clauses in their contracts which prevents one from suing the nursing home if they are negligent . These arbitration clauses prevent the nursing homes...

• Suit Filed Over Death Of Wheelchair Bound Nursing Home Resident

  David Lowe | July 25, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today reports about a suit filed by the widow of a nursing home resident who died on August 5, 2004 of head injuries suffered in a fall down stairs at St. Johns Home on the east side of Milwaukee.The suit, filed on July 18, 2007, alleges that John Mellinger was wheelchair bound following an earlier hip fracture injury, and that he was also suffering from dementia. ...