Posts tagged neglect

• Janitor Charged with Striking a Nursing Home Resident

  Christina Cole | March 24, 2007 1:26 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A man has been charged with striking a disabled resident of a nursing home where he was once employed.The worker was arrested, Friday, after an investigation led by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE team). The investigation claims the worker, 56, was employed as a janitor at the Edward J. Healy Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in...

• Nursing Home Janitor Charged with Abuse

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A former nursing home employee in Palm Beach County is being charged with striking a disabled nursing home resident.He was arrested after a completed investigation by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE) team. The investigation show's he was employed as a janitor at the Nursing Center.The investigation alleges, he struck a 48-year-old...

• Nursing Home Abuse Ends in Wrongful Death

  Craig Cannon | February 22, 2007 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Choosing a good nursing home is difficult. Unfortunately for the family of one elderly person, the nursing home they choose for their mother resulted in her wrongful death. The 81 year who suffered from alzheimer's was abused by aides at the nursing home. Thankfully, cases like this are rare - but resident advocates and nursing home administrators alike say elder abuse, in all its forms, is...

• 2 Nurses Arrested on Numerous Nursing Home Neglect Charges

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 1:55 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  According to the Florida Attorney General, two nurses from Suwannee County nursing home have been arrested on several counts of nursing home abuse and neglect. An investigation showed they withheld medication from nursing home patients.The attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began its investigation against the two nurses last October after they had received an abuse report from the...

• No Polk County Nursing Homes on Florida's Watch List

  Shannon Weidemann | January 30, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The quality of care and level of safety have improved in Florida's nursing homes since laws were passed in 2001 to improve the standards. These measures included more time spent with each patient that is charted, more nurses to be hired, and that nursing homes must carry liability insurance. Six nursing homes in Polk County have made Florida's Watch List in the past, which alerts the public to...

• Jury Selection Begins in Nursing Home Death

  Christina Cole | January 09, 2007 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Martha Bell, the former manager of a Robinson nursing home is being accused of covering up an 88-year-old Alzheimer patient's death. Bell said little as she sat doodling notes while attorneys were interviewing potential jurors.Bell is being charged in connection with the death of Mabel Taylor, a resident of (now-closed) Ronald Reagan Atrium/Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. Bell is being...