Last year a 46-year old patient walked away from the Unique Living Center, a nursing home in Shelby, North Carolina. The patient remains missing, and the state has closed the facility. Pending, though, are an additional $60,000 in fines to include penalties for not properly supervising patients; for not prohibiting smoking inside the building; for […]
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The Long Term Care Community Coalition of New York is reporting selected actions taken by the New York State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the latter months of 2008. The unit prosecutes cases of resident abuse in nursing homes. The five cases reported range from falsification of safety check records by nursing home
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March 10, 2009 The News and Observer reported that a newly appointed head of the Department of Health and Human Services has become stricter on punishment for Raleigh nursing home abuse. Since assuming the role, he has started putting people involved in North Carolina nursing home abuse cases on administrative leave until situations are investigated.
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Various operating entities, wholly or partly owned by Trefzer—a Hickory entrepreneur—manage 20 assisted living centers in North Carolina, with operations divided among a series of limited-liability entities, according to The News & Observer. Since Trefzger began managing Zebulon House in Wake County last summer, the long-term care center has racked up citations for a four-month
HB 493, according to The Pensacola News Journal, literally makes it easier for nursing home corporations to get away with poor care, abuse and even the death of a nursing home resident. The bill was introduced by Florida Rep. Dave Murzin, who, according to The NewsJournal, has been the most frequent author of bills to
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According to Erdman B. Palmore, a professor emeritus of gerontology at Duke University, “The way our society devalues older people could contribute to their neglect and abuse on some occasions.” One Alzheimer’s patient cried out for water before going to the hospital with dehydration. Another broke an eye socket when a wheelchair rolled down a
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Eric Larrabee, 24, of Madison, Wisconsin, slapped an 85-year-old patient who died 10 days after he slapped her across the face on Feb. 10, 2008. Larrabee then appeared to a former co-worker to have a “look of enjoyment” on his face, said Assistant Attorney General Eric Defort, who prosecuted the case. Larrabee, who was originally
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March 3, 2009 The Greenville Reflector reported that two people suffered some injuries during a recent Greenville car accident. The driver of one car made a left turn in front of another car, causing the Greenville auto accident and forcing the first car up onto the sidewalk. The drivers of both vehicles were taken to
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Should you find it necessary to consult with an attorney concerning matters of nursing home care, inquiries should be made about the prospective attorney’s experience in matters of nursing home abuse and neglect, as well as lectures and seminars attended and articles written.
A bill making its way through the Maryland House of Delegates would require nursing homes to give people the choice of installing cameras that the patients or their families would pay for themselves. The partners of HensonFuerst’s Nursing Home Litigation Division endorse this bill-of-choice and encourage viewers to this blog to voice their support by
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