Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Local Nursing Homes Fall Short in Government Ratings

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 10, 2009 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, families and caregivers to compare nursing homes with greater ease. Nursing homes...

• Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse

  Timothy Smith | December 31, 2008 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  Long-term analysis of nursing home quality of care has recently been completed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This reporting substantiates the lower quality of care provided by...

• PA Assisted Living Facility Shut Down after Owner Chokes Patient, 2 Suspicious Deaths

  Mike Ferrara | December 13, 2008 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Willow Crest Manor, a private assisted living facility in Pennsylvania’s Upper Moreland Township, has been closed down by the Department of Public Works after investigations into the...

• Hidden Cameras in Nursing Homes

  Dan Frith | October 16, 2008 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  ....are they a good idea! YES. Family members who are concerned over the care received by their loved ones cannot be at the nursing home watching what happens and doesn't happen 24 hours a day 7...

• Tulsa World Oped on Nursing Home Abuse

  Jeremy Thurman | March 23, 2008 6:56 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I saw this great oped in the Tulsa World this morning. The article is by Hugh M. Robert and below. For those of us who represent injured Oklahomans in nursing home abuse cases, we realize the importance of getting insurance for Oklahoma nursing homes. This will create a greater degree of responsibility and allow injured Oklahomans to hold nursing homes liable for their neglect."A growing...

• Long-term Care in Nursing Homes

  Rick Patterson | February 14, 2008 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  An overhaul of Tennessee's state services to the elderly and disabled may not be in the too distant future. A long-term care study committee will be drafting recommendations to overhaul the current system. The state could pay Tennesseans to take care of relatives and friends rather than sending them to nursing homes. "Govenor Phil Bredesen said he will work with lawmakers to "fundamentally...

• Nursing Home to Pay $54M For Resident Who Bled to Death

  Ric Davis | August 10, 2007 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In the largest personal injury verdict in state history, a New Mexico jury awarded $54 million to the family of a woman who bled to death in her nursing home. The plaintiff's lawyer, Carl Bettinger of Albuquerque, was already well-acquainted with the defendant, having previously litigated more than half a dozen similar negligence trials against Manor Care, a nursing home chain based in Toledo,...

• Nursing Home Abuse Settlement Reported

  John Inserra | May 15, 2007 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  Life Care Center of Elkhorn has settled a lawsuit that accused it of neglecting its patients and allowing an elderly woman to lie in her own feces for hours at a time after back surgery.A patient developed an infection in her wound during her stay at the Life Care Center of Elkhorn that required surgery to reopen her incision and drain the infection and fecal matter in the wound.Terms of the...

• Nursing Home Aide Accused of Abuse

  Christina Cole | April 18, 2007 4:34 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Police are investigating an alleged case of nursing home abuse. Officers were called to a Georgetown Healthcare and Rehab where they met with the home direct and a representative from the Department of Social Services. The report alleges a 55-year-old patient was choked by a nurse's aide.In the report, the man said the attacked occurred in December but he had not reported it due to fear of...

• Agency fines Hemet nursing home

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The agency that oversees California nursing homes has fined a Hemet facility $75,000 in connection with a patient's death. ManorCare Health Services in Hemet received an AA citation, which is the most severe under state law, on March 13, the article said. Evaluators from the California Department of Health Services found that an 83-year-old man died at a hospital on Jan. 13, 2006, seven days...