The Latest Nursing Home News for Dec 28, 2010
Three nursing homes in the Lower Hudson Valley face hefty state and federal fines for violations that include not following the advance directives of terminally ill residents and failing to properly treat pressure sores. Somers Manor Nursing Home in Somers will pay more than $28,000; Northern Riverview Health Care Center in Haverstraw will pay more [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Dec 21, 2010
 Four city nursing homes were hit with federal fines for substandard care – including a Bronx home that let an epileptic man with impaired memory wander off the premises. The feds fined Bronx Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare $36,450 for “failing to have systems in place to consistently identify, accurately assess and supervise” residents [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Dec 14, 2010
WICHITA | A Kansas nurse pleaded guilty on Monday to diluting morphine-based solutions prescribed to patients at a private nursing home in Halstead. Deborah Riggs pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Topeka to one count each of consumer product tampering and adulteration of a drug. The 55-year-old Goddard nurse faces up to 10 years [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Nov 30, 2010
An overhaul of the system for investigating deaths in Kentucky nursing homes is proposed in a bill pre-filed by state Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, for the 2011 General Assembly. Central to Burch’s legislation is a provision that would require a specific staff member at long-term care facilities and hospices to report all deaths to the [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Nov 22, 2010
In yet another, shocking case of elder care issues at nursing home facilities, the owner of the Glencare Home in Mount Olive, North Carolina, has said that five residents have died from hepatitis B, wrote the Washington Post. Glenn Kornegay, owner, said that public health investigators are looking into a shared blood testing needle that [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Nov 08, 2010
The recent Elder Justice Act, a provision of the federal health reform law, is partly responsible for a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into abuse and neglect in Northern California nursing homes, said California Watch. President Barack Obama signed the law in March; the Act seeks to prevent “elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation” via [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Oct 29, 2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Sacramento nursing home faces a $90,000 fine in connection with the death of 97-year-old patient three years ago. The state Department of Public Health on Monday fined the Gramercy Court nursing home where the woman was a resident. Department officials say the unidentified patient fell to the floor from her bed while an [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Oct 29, 2010
 DELANO, Calif. (AP) – A Kern County nursing home has been fined $100,000 after investigators found a patient died because staff failed to appropriately monitor the resident. State regulators announced Monday they were citing Browning Manor Convalescent Hospital for inadequate care that led to the death of a 58-year-old man in 2009. California Department [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Oct 14, 2010
FREEBORN COUNTY, Minn. – The second of two women accused of physically and sexually humiliating nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease in Albert Lea, Minn., pleaded guilty Thursday to three of the charges against her in a case that has altered how aides are chosen and supervised. Ashton Larson, 20, pleaded guilty to three counts [...]
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The Latest Nursing Home News for Oct 14, 2010
 ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA) — It may be one of the largest nursing home abuse cases in history. Nearly a dozen employees at Potomac Center nursing home at 1785 S. Hayes Street in Arlington have been indicted. Two of them are already convicted. “My husband’s diaper, I would come in 12 hours later, the diaper [...]
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