Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nursing Home Chain under pressure promises better patient care

  Beth Janicek | October 23, 2007 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Nursing Homes: More Profit and Less Nursing

  Beth Janicek | October 06, 2007 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Greenbrier Nursing Home Sued for Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | September 25, 2007 1:52 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Nursing Home Leaves Resident Unattended

  Beth Janicek | September 07, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Celina Nursing Home Cited for Bad Conditions

  Shannon Weidemann | July 27, 2007 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Nursing Home Charged With Manslaughter, Abuse, and Neglect of an Elderly Patient

  Beth Janicek | June 18, 2007 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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,...

• Woman Killed at Tacoma Nursing Home

  Shannon Weidemann | May 10, 2007 5:50 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Federal Health Officials Impose Only Minimal Penalties on Nursing Homes

  Beth Janicek | April 30, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Congressional investigators reports that nursing homes are repeatedly cited for mistreatment of patients and the federal health officials only impose minimal penalties. Nursing homes cycle in and out of compliance and pose a continued threat to the health and safety of patients."Some of these homes repeatedly harmed residents over a six-year period and yet remain in the Medicare and Medicaid...

• Washington County Receives Notice of Claim for Nursing Home Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | April 20, 2007 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A resident of a Pleasant Valley Nursing Home was assaulted by a nursing assistant in November. The employee was fired after an investigation, but the family of the victim is concerned that the nursing home and Washington County did not take proper action to keep the assault from happening in the first place. They have file a Notice of Claim against the county in prelude to filing a lawsuit. A...

• Jury Holds Nursing Home Accountable for Nursing Home Rape

  Beth Janicek | February 26, 2007 9:34 AM | 1 CommentSan Antonio, TX

  Nursing homes often do not provide adequate protection for their venerable residents. Recently, a jury found against the nursing home for not having adequately protected one of their residents who was raped. The jury awarded $750,000 to the family. A repeat sex offender was admitted to the facility and committed the rape.If your loved one has suffered abuse or neglect in a nursing facility...