In a hearing called by the state Comission on Veterans Affairs in regard to their role and that of the secretary of state's office in day-to-day operations at the Delaware Veterans Home, complaints arose about the quality of care at the facility. A nursing-home...
In yet another incident of nursing home neglect and abuse, a Washington state group home had its license permanently revoked by the state. Despite fear of retaliation, one of the residents reported anger, yelling and harsh grabbing by Carol Winters, operator of Carol's County...
Many Oklahoma nursing homes are under the operation of shell companies without assets or insurance, said the executive director of the Oklahoma Center for Consumer & Patient Safety in a news conference today. With the growing number of cases of nursing home abuse and...
Letters outlining a lack of staff response to concerns of understaffing, medication errors, worker complacency and patient neglect at the Thomas E. Creek Department of Verterans Affairs Medical Center prompted an investigation of the nursing home by a board from nearby elder care facilities....
A male dementia patient at an Australia nursing home allegedly raped and sexually assaulted several of the Bramble House's women residents over a nine month time frame starting last April. According to Australia's Daily Telegraph, case notes included complaint that the man fondled and...
A Vancouver, Canada nursing home resident who suffered from a condition called dysphagia that makes swallowing difficult died after being left unattended in the facility's dining room. Despite her identification as someone with a choking risk, the resident was served a dinner of meatballs...
When a high school student found 88-year-old Marguerite Miller about a block from the Osage Rehab and Health Care Center dressed in just a hospital gown in sub-zero Iowa temperatures, she was taken to a hospital and treated for frostbite and hypothermia. The resident...
According to an article in the Durant Daily Democrat, a former employee of the Four Seasons Nursing home has been charged with abusing a resident. An affidavit states that the nurse aide grabbed the resident's genitals after he became combatitive. The aide was mailed...
Many Oklahoma nursing homes are under the operation of shell companies without assets or insurance, said the executive director of the Oklahoma Center for Consumer & Patient Safety in a news conference today. With the growing number of cases of nursing home abuse and...
In a field hearing of the House Human Services Committee in Texas March 13, Tim Graves said the quality of care given in Texas nursing homes is adversely affected by a lack of state and federal funding. The state of Texas' Medicaid reimbursement rate...
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