OIG Report On Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect
September 15, 2017
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a memorandum dated August 24, 2017 entitled “Early Alert: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Has Inadequate Procedures To Ensure That Incidents of Potential Abuse or Neglect a[...]
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Husband Acquitted Of Sexually Abusing His Wife In Nursing Home
April 26, 2015
In a criminal case closely followed by the nursing home industry, nursing home residents, and their spouses and families, an elderly Iowa man was acquitted on April 22, 2015 of criminal charges that he sexually abused his wife while she was a resident of a nursing home. The alleged sexual conta[...]
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Massachusetts $2M Nursing Home Verdict For Sexual Assault
December 19, 2013
On December 17, 2013, a Middlesex Superior Court (Massachusetts) jury returned its $2,014,000 verdict in favor of an 87-year-old nursing home resident, who suffers from dementia and Huntington’s disease, for her alleged sexual assault that occurred in July 2011. The verdict was against the[...]
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