Texas updates in category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

Antipsychotic drugs are over prescribed to all the elderly including those in the nursing homes. Medicaid sent out a mandate last year to nursing home inspectors to crack down on the over prescribing of the antipsychotic drugs. Of the state's 398 nursing homes, 38 percent were cited last year for using such medications inappropriately, up from 27 percent in 2006.The drugs are often precribed...

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Centers of Medicare Services published its nursing home bad list. The list includes bad nursing homes from all over the nation and including eight nursing homes in Bexar County. The following are on the list; Buena Vida Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of San Antonio; Leon Valley Care Center; Mayfield Care Center; Meridian Care; Princeton Place Rehabilitation & Healthcare Bander; Regent Care...

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Here is the list of the worst nursing homes.

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A nurse is accused of raping and assaulting a paralyzed patient at a nursing home. John Riems, an Ohio nurse, has admitted to over 100 cases of abuse but claims to be able to remember the details on a couple dozen. "Police say Riems sexually assaulted a 55-year-old man as he lay partially paralyzed in his bed at Concord Care and Rehabilitation Home" Reims worked at over 10 different nursing...

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A 52 year old mentally disabled woman claims to have been sexually assaulted by a male caregiver at her adult day care center. She was living at The Special Opportunity Center in Kerrville, Texas. The Police are investigating this claim, but have not made any arrests. The Special Opportunity Center has placed the accused on administrative leave as a precaution.

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A 10-year old autistic boy who was cared for at Howell Care Centers-Clear Creek facility wandered off on Sunday morning. The boy was able to just walk away from the facility. Searchers were found him about an hour later in a pond about a quarter mile away. He was taken to the local hospital but did not survive. The facility has approximately 100 mentally disabled residents. Howell Care...

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The suit was filed again Barry Manor and White Oak Manor nursing homes and the suit claimed the facilities were negligent and failed to properly care for patient, John Novogradac. Mr. Novogradac lived at both facilities and developed bedsores on his body. He also had to have both legs amputated from above the knee due to his wounds becoming severely infected with dead and gangrenous tissue....

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On October 28, 2007, Ken Conner, attorney, spoke at "Nursing Homes: A Failed Experiment". As an attorney he spoke regarding abuse in nursing homes and regarded nursing homes for putting profit over care. Mr. Connor urges people to pay attention to signs from their loved ones in nursing homes. You should check for pressure ulcers, infections, or foul odors. Bernie Vonderheide, president of...

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The Carlyle Group has purchased the nursing home chain, Manor Care. They are claiming they will not cut staff and will make patient care a priority. David Goldstien, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California, referred to the pledge as "meaningless" and stated "For-profit companies should not be in the business of health care. Their allegiance is not...

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The New York Times analyzed records collected for Medicare and Medicaid Services and revealed that at 60% of nursing homes bought by large private equity groups in 2000 to 2006 have cut staffing and do not have the required amount of registered nurses. For example, Habana Health Care Center in Tampa, Florida was struggling financially when a group of large private investment firms purchased it...

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Greenbrier Manor, a nursing home in West Virginia has been sued for elder abuse on behalf of a woman who was a resident there. The woman lived in the nursing home for a few months in 2005. The lawsuit contends that the woman fell a number of times and it may have resulted in a head injury. She also lost 12 percent of her body weight in the short time that she stayed there. The suit claims...

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Golden Living Center, a Nebraska nursing home, was fined for leaving an elderly resident unattended. The state department of Health and Human Services did an investigation and found that the nursing home discharged the resident because the family couldn't pay.The facility then transported the resident to the family's home and they refused to accept the resident because they couldn't care for...

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A nursing home in Celina was inspected by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services and found that the conditions were so bad that a trustee was appointed to run the home. The nursing home neglect was found at the Amberwood Care Center. Among other things, the investigation found patients suffering from bed ulcers, a tracheotomy tube "coated with crust" and ventilators set at...

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On April 17, 2004, Julia McCauley, 74 years old, wheeled herself into a stairwell and plunged to her death. In 1999, Ms. McCauley was found unattended in a foyer in her wheelchair, was deemed an ``elopement'' risk and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device. The device is called a WanderGuard and it will set off an alarm and lock doors if she left a specified area. But, on April 17,...

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The death of a patient at a Tacoma nursing home has been ruled a homicide and the family has moved foward with a wrongful death lawsuit citing abuse by the nursing home. The victim was a patient at Nisqually Valley Care Center. She had been at a local hospital being treated for pneumonia and then was transferred to the nursing home to further her care. The nursing home is accused of...

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