Posts tagged nursing home

• Choosing A Nursing Home for Your Loved One

  Steve Watrel | April 24, 2012 2:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  One of the most important decisions you and your family will ever have to make is placing a loved one into a nursing home. The right choice can mean the difference between life or death. The...

• Future of Florida Nursing Homes Looks Bleak Due to State and Federal Budget Cuts

  Council Wooten | August 25, 2011 9:21 AM | 2 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Former Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson paints a bleak picture when it comes to the future of Florida nursing homes. As President and CEO of the American Health Care Association, Parkinson spoke at...

• 136 Silver Alerts Issued In 2009

  Eddie Farah | December 27, 2009 9:00 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  They are a lot like the Amber Alerts. Since Florida began the Silver Alert program a year ago, 136 alerts have been issued for missing Floridians ages 54 to 94. Some have Alzheimer’s, while...

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• Florida Has Weak Protection Laws for Our Seniors

  Sandy Grinnell | September 28, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Orlando Sentinel has an excellent article today on the pitfalls of the state of Florida's control over who is taking care of the elderly in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult...

• Long Term Pain In Personal Injury Cases

  Joseph Bernardo | March 18, 2008 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Trauma patients in America's hospitals are not necessarily "all better" just because they are released from the hospital. A large number of those hurt in accidents and falls and are treated at hospitals are not pain free upon their release.62.7% of patients in hospital admissions from trauma had pain 12 months llater. The pain was characterized as moderately severe. More than half of these...

• Alleged Abuse at Pathways to Care in Casselberry

  Mike Damaso | February 29, 2008 5:19 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Channel 9 Eyewitness News website is reporting allegations that an employee of Pathways to Care in Casselberry has been using illegal drugs and abusing patients. The assisted living facility worker is being accused of smoking crack cocaine on the property, stealing prescription medications, and verbally abusing residents.Channel 9 attempted to get a statement from the head nurse at the...

• Nursing Home Patient Had Maggots In His Eyes

  Diego Madrigal | January 23, 2008 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A nursing home patient who was brought to the hospital with maggots in his eyes and an infected breathing tube died. The Attorney General's office is investigating possible neglect or abuse directed at the man. The man was a resident at University Center West in Deland when he was taken to the hospital with these horrible conditions. He was later moved to a hospital in Jacksonville where he...

• CNA Accused of Abusing Florida Nursing Home Resident

  Chrissie Cole | September 24, 2007 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A certified nursing home assistant has been taken into custody on allegations that she abused a nursing home resident at a Pensacola nursing home. She is accused of causing injuries to the face and neck of an Alzheimer's patient.The arrest was carried out in Louisiana by the Houma Police Department, acting on behalf of the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. "This victim was...

• Shocking Nursing Home Abuse

  Ed Normand | September 01, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Right here in Central Florida we have another example of inhumane treatment at a nursing home. The list of alleged abuses is sickening:One resident suffered with an untreated impacted bowel for three weeks until her death.A resident with Alzheimer's fell out of bed. She called for help for an hour until she crawled to a phone and called 911. Firefighters rescued her and found the 3 nursing home...