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Pennsylvania Nursing Home Worker Charged With Abusing Elderly Resident

June 10, 2016

A 28-year-old employee of a Pennsylvania nursing home was arrested on May 19, 2016 and charged with misdemeanor criminal charges alleging neglect of care of a dependent person, reckless endangering another person, simple assault, and harassment. The nursing home worker was released from custody afte[...]

New York Nursing Home Owners Plead Guilty To Abuse And Neglect Cover-Up

January 11, 2016

The New York Attorney General announced on January 4, 2016 that the corporate owner of a New York nursing home pleaded guilty on January 4, 2016 to falsifying business records to resolve a 45-count indictment that alleged crimes arising from the suppression of two incidents of patient abuse and neg[...]

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[...]

17 Former Nursing Home Workers Sentenced After Guilty Pleas Arising Out Of Nursing Home Neglect

February 12, 2015

The last of 17 former Buffalo, New York nursing home workers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges arising out of the neglect of a 56-year-old resident who was totally dependent on their care. The felony charges against them were reduced to misdemeanor charges and only one former nurs[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Resident Treated Like An Animal

September 9, 2014

When the daughter of a 74-year-old Iowa nursing home resident visited her mother early last month after receiving a telephone call from the nursing home the night before that her mother was restless, screaming, and they did not know what to do, she immediately heard her mother screaming from her [...]

Florida Nursing Home Malpractice Case Alleges Wrongful Death

August 9, 2014

A Florida nursing home negligence case that was filed in July 2014 alleges that the Florida nursing home, its management companies, and two former administrators of the nursing home are responsible for the poor care and the resulting death of the nursing home resident who had lived in the nursing [...]

Grim Statistics For Nursing Home Residents Who Suffer Hip Fractures

June 27, 2014

In an article appearing in this week’s online edition (June 23, 2014) of JAMA Internal Medicine, it was reported that among the Medicare population studied who suffered a hip fracture, 13% died within three months, 24% died within twelve months, and only 50% of those who survived at least six [...]

Nursing Home Rape

May 10, 2014

On May 7, 2014, a 24-year-old certified nursing assistant (“CNA”) employed at a Massachusetts nursing home was arraigned on four felony counts – two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and one count of battery – with regard to the alleged rape of a 69-year-old fema[...]

17 New York Nursing Home Employees Criminally Charged With Neglect

April 29, 2014

The New York Attorney General announced last week that 17 employees of a Buffalo, New York nursing home (eight nurses and nine certified nursing assistants) have been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree (a class E felony), endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physi[...]

Wisconsin Nursing Home Fined $30,750 For 30 Violations; Had Hired Convicted Sex Offender

April 1, 2014

On February 28, 2014, a Wisconsin 77-bed nursing home that opened in 2012 was cited by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Quality Assurance with 30 violations as a result of an investigation conducted from September 24, 2013 to January 9, 2014. The nursing home (which bills it[...]

NY Nursing Home Hidden Camera Results In Criminal Charges Against 10

March 27, 2014

A loving son who was concerned that his father was being harmed in a New York nursing home took the bold step of placing a concealed camera in his father’s nursing home room to monitor and document the care (or lack of care) his father was receiving. The recordings from the hidden camera [...]

Two Nursing Home Aides Charged With Striking 96-Year-old Resident

March 19, 2014

Two 18-year-old certified nursing assistants at a nursing home located in Illinois have been charged with battery for an alleged incident that occurred on March 11, 2014, at which time it is charged that the two aides struck a 96-year-old resident who suffered from dementia, laughing as they recor[...]

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