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An overhaul of Tennessee's state services to the elderly and disabled may not be in the too distant future. A long-term care study committee will be drafting recommendations to overhaul the current system. The state could pay Tennesseans to take care of relatives and friends rather than sending them to nursing homes. "Govenor Phil Bredesen said he will work with lawmakers to "fundamentally...

Nursing home care has long been a concern. Families leave their loved ones in the care of others and many times that care falls short of what one would expect. Recently a nursing home known as Pacific Coast Manor was issued the most severe citation under state law. In addition to the citation, they were fined $100,000 after a state investigation concluded inadequate care led to the death of a...

It is believed that 1 in 20 of our elderly are victims of nursing home abuse, according to the National Center for Elder Abuse. In fact as many as 57% of nursing aids have admitted witnessing abuse. Some have evan participated in the abuse. The report sites problems in the industry such as chronic understaffing and inadequate pay for workers. . Two hearings were held yesterday. Committees from...

An Oklahoma judge sentenced a former nursing home aide to a six-year prison sentence for scalding two residents of a nursing home. She was charged with two counts of neglect. Paula Marie Drew, a 41 year-old, worked at Green Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Apparently, she put two residents in an overheated shower, which resulted in severe burns. Unfortunitly, nursing home neglect is all too...

Nursing home chain, Manor Care, is the largest nursing home chain in the United States. This year a private equity group purchased the chain. That transaction made Manor Care's CEO Paul Ormond between $118 and $186 million richer. As is the case with all nursing home chains, most of Manor Care's revenues come from public programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Toby S. Edelman of the Center for...

On April 17, 2004, 74-year-old Julia McCauley died at the hands of the care takers that she put her trust in. The facility, Life Care Centers of America Inc., was charged with manslaughter, abuse, neglect and making a false Medicaid Claim in connection with the elderly resident's death. They now face what amounts to a slap on the hand: A maximum of $16,000 in fines: $1,000 on the manslaughter...

A study that was conducted in 2004 by the Adult Protective Services showed that there was a 19.7-percent increase in the combined total reports of elder and vulnerable adult abuse. For example, in Fauquier County alone, there were 141 cases reported in between June 2006 and May 2007, according to Mittie Wallace who is a program manager for the elderly and disabled for the Fauquier County...

Serious concerns have been raised by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) after inspecting Marlborough House, a 52-bed nursing home in Dorset, South West England. Concerns raised, which were much the same as concerns raised here in substandard U. S facilities, include standards of health, shortfalls in nutrition and poorly trained staff. The original report was made in January of...

Another nursing home in Michigan is being shut down. This comes on the heels of the most recent accusations from the state that patient care is substandard and at times, patients have been put in outright danger. Just since their last inspection alone, they have been sited an additional 29 times. Accordingly, the state feels it is necessary to take these measures to ensure an immediate shut...

At Ridgewood Care Center nursing home in Racine, Wisconsin, an 85-year-old man suffered such terrible damage to his ear that it required 19 stitches to repair his torn ear cartilage. Medical staff said the injuries could have been caused by a fingernail but could not have been self-inflicted. It seems obvious that the perpetrator of the abuse is Amelia J. Clay, 20. She faces charges of abuse and...

In Florida, the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began investigating two female nurses after receiving an abuse report from the Florida Department of Children and Families in October 2006. The accused, Ashley Dawn Fralick, 27, and Melissa Elaine Bowen, 30, worked for Suwannee County nursing facility. They have been arrested on several counts of neglect. "Knowing that elderly...

On March 22, 2007, Yolette Joseph, 49, will be sentenced for violating Public Health Law by committing elder abuse. She faces up to one year in jail. Joseph, a former certified nurse's aid, admitted to hitting a patient who is 69-years-old, wheelchair-bound and suffers from dementia. The incident took place on July 20, 2006. It seems that Joseph was arguing with the patient. As the argument...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services imposed fines on a Lewis County Nursing Facility as a result of resident-on-resident sexual abuse and deficiencies in the quality of care, nutrition and errors in medication. Initially the fine was $4,050 per day starting on November 17, 2006. However, since November 20, 2006 the fine has been $150 daily. A 38-page report was obtained by NewsWatch50. ...

The Price Hill Police Department received a call on Monday at approximately 1:45 a.m. from a nursing home resident inside the home saying that he had been left alone. Since then, 3 employees at the Price Hill Nursing Home located at 584 Elberon Avenue, Price Hill, have been terminated after being charged with neglect of the patients placed in their care. Those employees include Lanetra Smith,...

A nursing home assistant is in jail after State Police say he put a pillow over an elderly man's face and repeatedly punched him. 47-year-old Andrew Thompson of Fort Edward, a certified nurse assistant, will not be able to work with the elderly anytime in the foreseeable future. Thompson is in jail after State Police charged him with abusing 85-year-old Fabian Vega, an Alzheimer's patient.State...