A Rocky Mount woman driving a Dodge Charger along I-40 in North Carolina was involved in several accidents. According to Star News Online, the driver of the Charger was charged with driving while impaired, hit and run, two counts of reckless driving and two counts of driving without a license. One of the accidents closed […]
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Dr. Kathryn L. Locatell is a geriatrician who has extensive experience with nursing homes, personally and professionally. Her first job as a teenager was in the kitchen of a nursing home, and her father died as the result of neglect in a nursing home. Dr. Locatell was asked to testify before Congress about the state
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A passing car ripped off the door of a Raleigh police officer’s patrol car but did not injure the officer, according to WRAL.com. The Raleigh police officer had pulled a vehicle over on Interstate 440 near the Glenwood Avenue exit in Raleigh and was exiting his patrol car when another vehicle drove by and clipped
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One of the many lessons of the still-developing story of Britthaven of Chapel Hill is that sick, elderly nursing home residents may be easy targets if the nursing staff wants to slip an extra pill or two into their patients’ medication allotment to ensure that the residents remain unresponsive and sleepy–a form of chemical restraint. There
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A team of state inspectors are investigating why nine people living in the Britthaven of Chapel Hill nursing home’s Alzheimer’s unit tested positive for strong pain-control opiate drugs that they weren’t supposed to be receiving. HensonFuerst Law firm, a long-time advocate of people and families suffering nursing home abuse, is also investigating.
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Emergency room doctors dread each new snow because they know that sledding accidents are soon to follow. This story in the Raleigh News & Observer highlights the danger of high-speed sledding–when cars tow snow-riders for that extra thrill. Too often, accidents cause severe injuries, including head injuries and even death. The white stuff is fun,
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Making the decision to find a care facility for a loved one is difficult and emotionally charged. We would like to think that all nursing homes are clean, caring, and compassionate places. Many are not. There are many tools you can use to try to find a good fit for your family member. While we
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Rocky Mount resident Tyler Strandberg has a problem. In the past three years, she had wrecked and totaled three cars. The last one was borrowed from her grandma. Tyler’s father, Buckley Strandberg, worries about her…but admits to having the same problem. He frequently drives impaired. At this point, you have probably come to your own
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The State of North Carolina has 106 state inspectors who are expected to properly inspect the state’s 435 nursing homes. That gives each inspector a caseload of roughly four facilities; inspectors review those nursing homes at least once every 15 months. In Harnett County, leaders said that local inspectors could do reviews every two months
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Kinston-based Britthaven, a major owner and operator of nursing home and assisted living facilities in North Carolina, will pay $300,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency recently announced. The EEOC had charged that Britthaven had, since at least 2002, subjected pregnant employees to different