Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Abuse of Elderly Patient at Nursing Home Disturbing

  Christina Cole | December 09, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  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...

• Nursing Home Abuse

  Rick Patterson | September 02, 2007 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  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...

• The Cost of Nursing Home Care

  Rick Patterson | August 11, 2007 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  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...

• Another Shut down Due to Nursing Home Abuse

  Rick Patterson | April 17, 2007 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  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...

• Nursing Home Abuse in Wisconsin

  Rick Patterson | March 13, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  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...