Posts tagged nursing home

• Flim-Flam On Nursing Home Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 11, 2006 7:25 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Nursing Home Residents Storm Tallahassee To Protest Legislature's Dishonesty - that should be the headline in newspapers throughout the State of Florida. The legislative flim-flam that took away their rights in exchange for promised improvements in nursing home care that will likely never occur should be recognized for what it was. It was a fraud, pure and simple. Read the story from the...

• Nursing Home Denies Resident His Rights Before He Moves In

  Bob Carroll | December 22, 2005 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A Florida nursing home has devised a scheme to deny its residents important rights before they even move into the facility. A Florida Appellate Court found that the nursing home effectively buried an agreement requiring arbitration and limiting liability in a package of documents that the resident's daughter was asked to sign while her father was on route from the hospital to the home. Holding...

• Blame The Children Of The Nursing Home Residents?

  Bob Carroll | September 22, 2005 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Just who is responsible for the timely and safe evacuation of the residents of nursing homes?The Louisiana Attorney General has got it right. The professions who were entrusted with the lives of their residents had the responsibility to provide a timely and safe evacuation. The relatives of the deceased residents will forever live with their loss and do not need the additional burden of the...