Posts tagged neglect

• Windsor Manor Sued in Two Wrongful Death Suits

  Shannon Weidemann | May 02, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A California nursing home has been sued twice with wrongful death suits. A husband and wife are both suing the Windsor Manor nursing home in Concord, California. Both of their mothers died while patients at the nursing home in two seperate incidents. One mother died from a fall while she was unsupervised and unassisted and the other died from apiration pneumonia. Attorney Jay P. Renneisen, a...

• Nursing Home Cleared of Complaint

  Christina Cole | April 19, 2007 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsSpartanburg, SC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Police have determined there is not sufficient evidence to back up a recent complaint of nursing home abuse filed against a nurse at Georgetown Healthcare and Rehablitation.Police were called to the facility in March when a resident alleges he was choked by a nurse. He said the incident happened back in December, but he had waited until now to report it due to fear that the nurse would...

• Nursing Home Visited by Jurors During Death Trial

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2007 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Jurors in the Mabel Taylor neglect of a care dependent person, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless endangerment trial will visit the scene of the nursing home on Monday. The former Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing, Research, and Rehabilitation Center was closed in 2004 and replaced with a diabetes treatment facility. Mrs. Taylor, age 88, died after being left in an outdoor, fenced courtyard...

• Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed

  Staff Writer | September 28, 2006 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The daughters of a woman who died in a California nursing home are suing the facility after the state found it failed to monitor the woman while she was on medication. Maria Tirado dies while on the anti-coagulant Coumadin, and the state fined the nursing home $94,000 for failing to monitor Tirado despite orders from her physician. Tirado died Jan. 18, after suffering from massive bleeding on...