Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• Nursing Home Must Pay Damages for Prolonging Life

  Shannon Weidemann | April 07, 2007 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A jury in Palm Beach County has decided that a nursing home must pay $150,000 in damages to a woman's family after they did not follow her living will and advance directive. The 92-year-old woman had stated that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Workers at Morse Geriatric called paramedics and had her taken to the hosptial where she died six days later after having many...

• Girard Nursing Home Fined for Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | August 29, 2007 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A nursing home in Girard, Illinois had abuse complaints lodged against it. Investigators found that the workers at Pleasant Hill Village Nursing Home was abusing residents. A fine of $25,000 was levied against the home. A February report by the Illinois Department of Public Health indicated the incidents might have started as early as August 2006.Aides allegedly poked one resident with a pin...

• Flaws In Florida Emergency Requirements For Nursing Homes

  Bob Carroll | October 17, 2005 7:36 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  After Katrina we were shocked at the disaster in some nursing homes in New Orleans. Florida nursing home residents may not have faired any better. Last month's mandatory evacuation of the Florida Keys lashed by Hurricane Rita revealed critical flaws in the state's elaborate emergency requirements for nursing homes.In the afternath of Katrina we were shocked at the disaster in some nursing...

• One Company's Nursing Home Abuse Record - Is "Blatant" Strong Enough?

  Bob Carroll | June 02, 2006 4:51 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Over at OpEdNews.com there is a lengthy article that details some of the most egregious nursing home misconduct imaginable. The disgusting incidents described are truly shocking. Amazingly, all of the patient abuse and neglect occurred at the facilities of one nursing home company, Beverly Enterprises.Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry Nowhere in...

• Blame The Children Of The Nursing Home Residents?

  Bob Carroll | September 22, 2005 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Just who is responsible for the timely and safe evacuation of the residents of nursing homes?The Louisiana Attorney General has got it right. The professions who were entrusted with the lives of their residents had the responsibility to provide a timely and safe evacuation. The relatives of the deceased residents will forever live with their loss and do not need the additional burden of the...

• Nursing Homes Have Fire Safety Obligations

  Bob Carroll | October 21, 2006 3:21 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Fire in a nursing home obviously can be a disaster because of the immobility of many of the residents. It would be a guaranteed disaster if the nursing home falsified fire drill reports and appointed an untrained maintenance man to oversee fire safety training at the facility, leaving employees unable to handle the crisis. That is what is alleged to have happened in Nashville.Judge clears way...

• Long Shadow Inn Fails Its Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 10, 2006 5:27 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  My father lived for more than four years at the end of his life at an assisted living facility in Palm Harbor. He received excellent and compassionate services in a setting that was safe and properly supervised. That same facility has now been shut down by state officials because of health and safety violations. What could have caused the changes at the Long Shadow Inn in the years since my...

• Rocky Times For Nursing Home Resident Leads To Death

  Bob Carroll | October 21, 2005 4:10 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Rocky Mountain News tells the story of Manuela Beltran who died in a nursing home from starvation and dehydration after she was given almost nothing to drink or eat for nine days, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Denver. The details of this lawsuit show just how rocky life was for the deceased during 10 days in December.From the Rocky Mountain News comes the story of Manuela Beltran who...

• Nursing Homes Understaffed - Abuses Continue

  Bob Carroll | April 30, 2006 7:26 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  Understaffing at nursing homes appears to be the underlying reason for continued problems and abuses according to a just-released national report examining nursing home abuse and neglect. The story is from FortWayne.com:Report IDs roots of elderly neglect"The Faces of Neglect: Behind the Closed Doors of Nursing Homes," commissioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform,...