Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes(2)

  Beth Janicek | June 04, 2011 12:22 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  I have previously written about the issue of having people with criminal records working in nursing homes. Recently, a Fort Worth Star Telegram article raised the related concern of former sex...

• Six employees arrested at California nursing home for greasing patients

  Beth Janicek | August 06, 2010 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  I blog about nursing homes frequently and have seen many stories on elder abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse, but I still am continually surprised at the callousness of other people. Six former...

• California Nursing Home Chain Faces $677 Million for Understaffing

  Beth Janicek | July 09, 2010 11:11 AM | 3 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  On Tuesday a jury rendered a verdict in the class-action lawsuit against the Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc, based in Southern California. The lawsuit claimed that the nursing home chain, that...

• Is Abuse at Nursing Homes Properly Investigated?

  Beth Janicek | July 07, 2010 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Every state has an agency in charge of investigating nursing home abuse and neglect claims. In Texas it is the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (TDADS), which was created to...

• Video: Nurse Dumps Elderly Resident to Floor

  Beth Janicek | June 11, 2010 1:20 PM | 2 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A NYC nurse at the William Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion in Queens has had criminal charges filed against her by the attorney general for dumping an elderly woman in a wheelchair on the floor....

• May 2010 Proclaimed Elder Abuse Prevention Month

  Beth Janicek | May 10, 2010 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Governor Rick Perry has proclaimed May 2010 as Elder Abuse Prevention Month in Texas. In the proclamation he said, “Elder abuse touches all racial, cultural, religious and socioeconomic...

• Major California Nursing Home Chain Overbilled Medicare $100 Million by “Upcoding” Patients

  Beth Janicek | April 03, 2010 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  North American Health Care (NAHC), a major California Nursing Home chain, allegedly falsified records and overbilled Medicare by $100 million. According to court documents, NAHC employees have been...

• Nursing Homes not required to carry sufficient Insurance

  Beth Janicek | March 05, 2010 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  An article in the Clarion Ledger by Sid Salter, from the talk radio show, On Deadline with Sid Salter, discussed the issue of tort reform and the elderly. He mentioned that when his parents were put...

• Charges settled in kickback case involving SavaSeniorCare/Mariner and Omnicare, Inc.

  Beth Janicek | March 04, 2010 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  The U.S. Department of Justice reached a $14 million settlement with the nursing home chains Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC over the alleged kickbacks from...

• Potential Elder Abuse Leads to San Antonio’s First Homicide of the Year

  Beth Janicek | January 13, 2010 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  San Antonio’s first homicide of 2010 involved Ralph Wayne Nunley, who is accused of killing his mother. Floy Nunley was found dead in her bed with wounds to her hands and face. Ralph...