Posts tagged nursing home abuse

• Nursing Home Abuse/Neglect & Little known facts

  Susy Owen | September 29, 2007 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Would it surprise you to know that nursing home abuse and neglect is more prevalent in facilities that are owned by private investment firms. With many of our elderly in need of nursing homes in terms of business there is big money to be made. And that fact has not gone unnoticed by investment firms. However, business are looking at their bottom line and are often employ aggressive cost cutting...

• Nursing Home Abuse Caught on Tape

  Chrissie Cole | September 01, 2007 9:27 PM | 0 CommentsModesto, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A hidden video camera captured a home caregiver abusing the 90-year old man she was supposed to be caring for.The man's daughter suspected nursing home abuse and neglect and set up a hidden camera. The video was horrific as you might imagine..."She takes her fist and hitting him in the chest. She was hitting him in the stomach. Hitting him in the arm, and when we look back a few days before, she...

• Long-term Care in Nursing Homes

  Rick Patterson | February 14, 2008 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...

• Woman Dies in Nursing Home Due to Lack of Care

  Rick Patterson | December 26, 2007 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Nursing home care has long been a concern. Families leave their loved ones in the care of others and many times that care falls short of what one would expect. Recently a nursing home known as Pacific Coast Manor was issued the most severe citation under state law. In addition to the citation, they were fined $100,000 after a state investigation concluded inadequate care led to the death of a...

• Lawsuit claims two nursing homes are deliberately understaffed

  IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 12:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Two North San Diego County nursing homes are accused of providing substandard care to residents by keeping staff levels low to maximize profits, according to an article published in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune.The allegations are in a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court against Life Care Centers of America, the corporate parent of Life Care Center of Escondido and Life Care...

• Lawsuit Accuses Riverside Nursing Home of Neglect

  IB Contributor | February 25, 2007 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Broken hip after repeated falls for a 81-year old grandmother.The granddaughter of a former Riverside nursing-home resident has sued the owners of Pleasant Care Convalescent of Riverside claiming her grandmother repeatedly was neglected and abused there, according to a Feb. 20 news report in the Riverside Press-Enterprise.Gegett A. Mike, of Montclair, alleged in her lawsuit that nursing home...

• Wisconsin Nursing Home Resident May Have Been Abused

  Shannon Weidemann | June 08, 2007 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...

• Agency fines Hemet nursing home

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...

• Indiana nursing home could be placed on probation

  IB Contributor | March 30, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Indiana health officials are considering placing a nursing home's license on probation after a resident with Alzheimer's disease accidentally died last month at the nursing homre, according to an Associated Press news report published in the Indianapolis Star. The Indiana State Department of Health also wants Bradner Village Health Care Center to hire a registered nurse consultant and a licensed...

• Woman Files Lawsuit Against Nursing Home

  IB Contributor | February 21, 2007 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Dropped patients, common in nursing homes.More common than anyone wants to talk about is the injuries caused by lifting and moving patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Not only are patients injured but a great deal of hospital personal have injured backs from the lifting and moving. Some hospitals are using lifts but not enough of them to save the patients and the nursing staff.Women files...