Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Elderly Dementia Patients Given Antipsychotic Drugs

  Beth Janicek | May 29, 2008 4:29 PM | 1 CommentSan Antonio, TX

  Canadian researchers said on Monday that elderly patients with dementia that were prescribed antipsychotic drugs are three times more at risk for serious health problems or dying within a month...

• Public Alert for the Mentally Ill

  Beth Janicek | May 06, 2008 8:29 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Falls in Nursing Homes

  Beth Janicek | April 14, 2008 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Falls in Nursing Homes are a serious problem. The statistics are staggering. Each year nursing homes of 100 beds reports 100 to 200 falls and many falls go unreported. Among older adults, falls...

• Kindred Healthcare Spent Over $1 million Lobbying

  Beth Janicek | April 03, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Forbes magazine reported that reports from the lobbyist show that Kindred Healthcare spent over one million in lobbying the federal government last year. Kindred Healthcare operates hospitals,...

• Nursing Home Abuse

  Beth Janicek | February 01, 2008 8:38 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Nursing Home Violations Result in More Than 50 Deaths

  Staff Writer | August 14, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  More than 50 preventable deaths have ocurred in North Carolina adult-care and nursing homes over the past five years, a story in the Charlotte Observer reported Sundday. Each person who died passed as a result of something the facility in which they were living did or failed to do.According to the story, the 53 deaths count only those reported to the state. Supporters of higher standards for...

• Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes

  Beth Janicek | July 28, 2008 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  In USA Today, there is an article discussing the movement to require nursing homes to notify residents if there is a sex offender living in the nursing home. This is legislation that Texas needs to...