Regional updates in category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

Did you know that most nursing homes are owned by stockholders? Does that matter when you are choosing a long term care facility for your family member? It should. Although there may not be a great...

A television station research licensed nurses in Texas and found that more than one in 20 had a criminal record. The station compared the records with the licensing board and Texas Department of...

California Law provides new rights for victims of elder abuse: mandatory financial insitution reporting and a right to freeze the assets of the wrongdoer before trial.

After a month of anguish, a San Antonio family has found their mentally ill mother in Dallas. Marguerite “Margie” Hockley, age 48, was reported to be schizophrenic. The missing person alert was...

Felicia Ann Engle of Boaz, 20 years old, was placed in Golden Living Center due to terminal kidney disease. Her elderly father was unable to take care of her needs. On April 3, 2008 at approximately...

Note: see also Medical Malpractice category. One of the legislative changes that many states need to enact is to require a minimum amount of insurance for all medical professionals, hospitals and nursing homes. It appears to me that the states are going to catch up fast with these nursing homes that are hiding all of their assets and keeping inadequate insurance limits. The bottom line is that the tort reform medical malpractice "crisis" has been a massive sham that has used falsehoods to influence the public.

Over the years, nursing homes have been called upon to provide increasingly complex medical care to residents. Much of that complex care requires the use of sophisticated medical devices such as...

That is correct...it is not a misstatement. I did not mean to say that two residents died as a result of neglect or abuse. The nursing homes at issue are located near Sacramento, California. The...

As our readers have heard me say before, arbitration agreements in nursing home admission contracts are unfair and unreasonable. These agreements, often hidden in the small print, prevent the...

Knowledge is power and sometimes it is the difference between being cared for or being neglected and abused. What am I talking about? Nursing homes of course and which ones are good and which ones...

Lauren Ellerman and I spend a great deal of our professional time representing residents and their family members in cases of nursing home abuse and neglect. In today's world you no longer see the...

Do you have a relative or friend in a nursing home and on Medicaid? If so, a few minutes of your time could do him or her a world of good. I'm talking about the federal tax refund (also called the...

A Picture is worth a thousand words. Please watch this report. It may focus on California, but sadly, the problems are in every state, including Virginia: '>YOU TUBE VIDEO ON ELDER ABUSE

Recently all 239 nursing homes in Arkansas participated in a national campaign intended to make life better for residents of their facilities. Arkansas appears to be the only state to achieve total participation in the campaign called "Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes."

In this disturbing story out of Virginia, two disabled women in wheelchairs separately testified that they had been molested and raped numerous times by the driver who transported one to adult...