Posts tagged Nursing Home

• More Nursing Home Abuse-Drugs Missing

  Rick Patterson | February 08, 2007 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...

• Nurse's Aid Admits to Elder Abuse

  Rick Patterson | January 29, 2007 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...

• Lewis County Nursing Facility Cited

  Rick Patterson | January 02, 2007 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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. ...

• Nursing Home Workers Charged with Neglect

  Greg Owen | December 20, 2006 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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,...

• Abuse of Elderly Patient at Nursing Home Disturbing

  Christina Cole | December 09, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...