Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Suit Filed Against McKenna Nursing Home

  Ryan Nute | May 09, 2007 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  The Nisqually Valley Care Center in McKenna, Washington is being sued by the daughter of a resident (Florence Pierpoint, 79) who reportedly died after being given a morphine overdose when staff did not follow her doctor's instructions about pain medication.While prosecutors declined to file criminal charges, the nursing home received a citation in connection with her death because the staff...

• Morphine overdose kills nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | May 08, 2007 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Washington woman has filed suit against the nursing home where her mother resided. The suit alleges that the nursing home staff was negligent in administering morphine to her mother.The suit follows a finding by the local coroner that a morphine overdose led to the death of the patient.There are some basic things that have to be verified before a nurse gives medication to a patient, especially...

• Windsor Manor Sued in Two Wrongful Death Suits

  Shannon Weidemann | May 02, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A California nursing home has been sued twice with wrongful death suits. A husband and wife are both suing the Windsor Manor nursing home in Concord, California. Both of their mothers died while patients at the nursing home in two seperate incidents. One mother died from a fall while she was unsupervised and unassisted and the other died from apiration pneumonia. Attorney Jay P. Renneisen, a...

• Federal Health Officials Impose Only Minimal Penalties on Nursing Homes

  Beth Janicek | April 30, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Congressional investigators reports that nursing homes are repeatedly cited for mistreatment of patients and the federal health officials only impose minimal penalties. Nursing homes cycle in and out of compliance and 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 and Medicaid...

• Epidemic of Nursing Home Abuse Continues

  Ken Margolin | April 27, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Newspapers are printing an advance overview of a GAO (Government Accountability Office) report, due out next week. The GAO investigated nursing homes receiving Medicaid/Medicare payments, to see if incidences of nursing home abuse had lessened since a 1998 GAO report, targeting such disgraces. The new report is not encouraging. Even homes in which instances of shocking abuse occur, receive...

• Nursing home fined $100,000 for unsafe bed rails

  Barry Doyle | April 26, 2007 7:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Michigan nursing home has been cited by a state monitor after she found that the bed rails in several rooms were not properly installed, creating a safety hazard to residents.Improperly installed bed rails have caused the deaths of several Michigan nursing home residents since 1999.Bed rails are considered a form of restraint and shouldnto be used unless ordered by a physician. The danger...

• Malpractice Defendants Sue Their Lawyers

  Brent Adams | April 25, 2007 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  In a case which reports a good example of abuse of our civil justice system by insurance companies, medical doctors who suffered a $217,000,000.00 verdict against them in a malpractice case have sued their own lawyers.Among the claims against their former lawyers was the fact their lawyers turned down settlement offers of $1,000,000.00 for one doctor and $3,000,000.00 for the other doctor. The...

• No Penalty for Nursing Home Abuse

  Craig Cannon | April 25, 2007 8:43 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  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...

• Body exhumed in nursing home investigation

  Barry Doyle | April 25, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The body of a second deceased resident from a McHenry nurisng home has been exhumed.The body was removed from its resting place as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations that residents at the facility were deliberately given fatal medication overdoses.This has been a fascinating story to watch develop. It involves allegations that a member of the nursing staff was giving...

• Nursing Home Safety Report

  Rob McKinney | April 24, 2007 8:13 AM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Over 1.5 million people live in one of 16,400 nursing homes during the year . Why is the Federal Government not cracking down on the on the homes that have a history of mistreating patients ? Congress enacted tough laws in 1987 to protect nursing home residents . However , the Department of Health and Human Services has failed to do their job . The New York Times...