Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Arizona assisted living facilities shuttered

  Barry Doyle | June 11, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Four Arizona assisted living facilties were recently closed by state authorities after inpsections revealed filthy conditions and care deficiencies.In one instance, one resident was found to have 22 decubitus ulcers, some of which were bone-deep.Many consumers are unaware of the differences between assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Assisted living facilities are intended to provide...

• Mount Carmel Nursing Home Cited for 16 Federal Violations

  Shannon Weidemann | June 09, 2007 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  The Mount Carmel Nursing Home in Greenfield, Wisconsin was cited for numerous violations and needs to have them fixed before any new admissions will be paid for with state funding. The home was in danger of being closed in 1998, but since then has had a record of very few violations. The nursing home was cited for many acts of negligence. The facility at 5700 W. Layton Ave., which has 439...

• Abuse alleged in Wisconsin nursing home

  Barry Doyle | June 09, 2007 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A West Allis, Wisconsin nursing home is under investigation after a family made complaints about several unexplained injuries that their grandmother suffered while a resident at the facility. The lack of explanation for the injuries has led the family to believe that she was abused by the staff, even though an internal investigation revealed no wrongdoing.The unexplained injuries include...

• Wisconsin Nursing Home Resident May Have Been Abused

  Shannon Weidemann | June 08, 2007 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A resident of the Allis Care Center in West Allis, Wisconsin may have been a victim of nursing home abuse. The woman was being treated for diabetes. Her family got a call that she had fell from her wheelchair and was taken to the hospital. Andalhari says, "my grandmother looked like, as if someone had a bat and beat her. Beat her face, the left side, with a bat. As if she was punched in the...

• Nursing Home Neglect Settlement

  Ken Margolin | June 07, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  A significant settlement in a disturbing case of nursing home neglect, was reported in this week's Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. A generally healthy, active, older women (exact age unspecified in the report), entered the nursing home for rehabilitation after a compression fracture. Darvocet, which the woman was taking for pain, has a known side effect for many people, of constipation. Despite...

• Nursing Home Abuses: Oversight of California Nursing Homes

  Laura Blatt | June 05, 2007 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA

  A recent state audit criticized the California Department of Health Services (DHS) for not doing an adequate job of overseeing the quality of nursing homes. Some DHS employees overlooked or underestimated nursing home violations, the audit said. Also, the timing of inspections was quite predictable, so it was too easy for a nursing home to prepare for the visit and hide deficiencies.The DHS...

• Conditions in Arizona Nursing Homes Alarming

  Chrissie Cole | June 03, 2007 9:20 PM | 0 CommentsTucson, AZ

  Conditions in Arizona nursing homes are so unsafe and alarming that state inspectors will not leave until all the problems have been fixed and are in compliance with state laws.Inspectors discovered nursing home abuse of patients that are unable to get the right medicines and seniors living in fear of being abused by abusive employees. In the past two years the numbers of Arizona nursing homes...

• Nursing Home Abuse: Finding Out About California Nursing Home Violations

  Laura Blatt | June 01, 2007 6:51 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA

  When it comes to quality care for the elderly, California nursing homes have a mixed record. Some deliver good service, but too many have been cited for serious deficiencies. In 2005 alone, for example, the California Department of Health Services (DHS) received 21,388 complaints, and this may be an understatement of the problem.Wouldn't it be helpful to know about a nursing home's history of...

• Nursing Home Abuse: Nursing Homes with Repeated Violations

  Laura Blatt | June 01, 2007 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA

  In 2006, one in five nursing homes received citations for violations that could seriously harm residents. This figure comes from recent studies by the GAO (Government Accountability Office), which has been tracking nursing home performance for the last decade and reporting back to Congress at least once a year.Sadly, the GAO found that some nursing homes repeatedly violated federal and state...

• CNA sentenced in rape of nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | May 30, 2007 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A DuPage County judge today sentenced a former nursing home CNA to 25 years in prison. The sentence follows a guilty plea to sexual assault charges.The victim of the assault was a severely disabled woman who resided in the nursing home. The sexual assult was not discovered until after it was discovered that the woman was pregnant. The CNA was identified as the perpetrator through DNA...