Posts tagged neglect

• Elder Abuse: Woman Dies After Leaving Palomar Heights Care Center

  Scott Barber | November 27, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A 94 year-old resident of Palomar Heights Care Center in Escondido died early Thanksgiving morning after wandering out of the facility and being struck by a car. To compound matters the resident, Maria Cobian, was wearing a bracelet intended to alert staff if she attempted to leave the facility. According to Escondido Police, the only door the bracelet doesn't trigger an alarm. "Either she...

• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against California Nursing Homes

  Randy Walton | November 07, 2007 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A class action lawsuit for substandard nursing home care was filed in Orange County Superior Court against S&F Management Company, Inc.; S&F Management Company, LLC; Windsor Healthcare Management, Inc.; and its 15 skilled nursing care facilities around the state of California.Stephen Garcia, attorney for the plaintiff, alleges in the complaint that Windsor promotes itself in a misleading way,...

• Elderly Woman Killed After Wandering From Escondido Nursing Home

  Randy Walton | November 27, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Cases involving nursing home wanderers are not uncommon in the nursing home abuse and neglect arena. I have had them, and I know my colleagues have as well. When an elderly resident of a nursing home wanders away, usually because there is some memory impairment, it rarely ends well.That was the case in Escondido on Thanksgiving Day when 94-year-old Maria Cobian, a resident of Palomar Heights...

• Battle Against Bedsores Requires Teamwork

  Walton Barber, LLP | February 19, 2008 11:42 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  New research shows that preventing and treating pressure ulcers in the nursing home setting requires a team approach, involving nurses, laundry workers, cafeteria and maintenance workers, and even the cosmeticians.Large bedsores are a sight to behold. The larger ones - Stage III and IV - can result in a wound so deep that you can see the bone. Wounds like this can be very painful and can lead...

• Abuse of Antipsychotic Drugs Found in U.S. Nursing Homes

  Randy Walton | December 04, 2007 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Studies show that Medicaid spends more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than any other prescription drug. Why? Because nursing homes across the country are giving these powerful drugs to elderly residents for the purposes of "quieting" them.The Wall Street Journal is reporting that nearly 30% of the total nursing home population is receiving antipsychotic drugs in a practice that is...

• Bedrail Entrapment - How To Be Safe

  Randy Walton | September 29, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a major crib recall, reporting that 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs have been recalled after three children became entrapped and suffocated, including a 9-month-old child who died. But bed rail entrapment is a danger not limited to the young. It continues to injure and kill many elder Americans every year.It is estimated that...

• Fancy Nursing Home, Shocking Death

  Randy Walton | December 20, 2007 3:32 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Because part of my law practice involves representing seniors in nursing homes who have been subjected to abuse or neglect, I am frequently asked for recommendations for a "good" nursing home. I respond that I don't know any. But on the other hand, I tell the person asking, I don't necessarily know the "bad" ones either. One thing I have learned, in cases against fancy chain homes or the...

• Allegations of Nursing Home Abuse Surface in Pastor's Death

  David Rowell | November 01, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The family of Reverend Dennis Graham claims that nursing home abuse led to the minister's death. Dennis Graham died in September 2007 and, according to his family, the cause of his death was abuse and neglect from the nursing home where he was beilng care for. Sherry Cooke, the victim's sister, says that "what happened [to him] there was inhumane and would not be allowed to happen to animals."...

• A Ghoulish Story of Dependent Adult Abuse

  Randy Walton | October 31, 2007 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  This Halloween a San Luis Obispo transplant surgeon is accused of dependent adult abuse after allegedly prescribing excessive painkillers and sedatives to expedite the death of a 25-year-old patient with the hope of harvesting his organs.Prosecutors say Dr. Hootan Roozrokh ordered massive doses of drugs to speed the death of 25-year-old Ruben Navarro last year. Navarro was taken to Sierra Vista...

• Elders More Vulnerable To "Poisonous" Drug Cocktails

  Scott Barber | September 18, 2007 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A recent New York Times article reports that elderly patients are much more vulnerable to "poisonous" drug cocktails. Elderly persons, those over the age of 65, are more likely to be taking multiple medications for multiple conditions which have been prescribed by multiple physicians. This can result in elders receiving medications which should not be prescribed together. This can even occur...