Fuquay-Varina Police Department arrested and charged Cynthia Williams Sellars, a former assisted-living employee, with murder. Police said Sellars was an employee at the time at Windsor Point Retirement Community. She was involved in an assault while working at the facility. According to arrest warrants, Sellers was initially charged with assault on individuals with a disability for
The Michigan Attorney General issued a press release about Jessica Struhar. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel arrested Jessica Struhar on one count each of 2nd degree Vulnerable Adult Abuse and Intentionally Placing False Information in a Medical Record. Each count is a four-year felony. The Attorney General alleges that during Struhar’s employment in 2021 as
The accused is a registered sex offender. Currently on probation. Weeks after the incident, he’s still there, living in the same facility. Horrific.
In June 2023, the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) released a new report titled “They Make You Pay: How Fear of Retaliation Silences Residents in America’s Nursing Homes.” It is made worse from the unsafe staffing at most facilities. Understaffing in America’s nursing homes is lethal. The Economic Policy Institute found that long-term care workers (over
Troy police arrested Brianna Leanate Cowart-Birckett, an employee of Troy Health and Rehab nursing home, on elder abuse allegations. Police arrested her on Sept. 12 after management told investogators Cowart-Birckett had physically assaulted a resident. The criminal complaint alleges she placed a cover over someone’s face and shoved that person’s head repeatedly. Cowart-Birckett is charged with
Clark Kaufman wrote a great article for the Iowa Capital Dispatch on a scary situation. The Lenox Care Center nursing home cited for abusing residents through intimidation and punishment. At least two residents were reportedly denied food, beverages or privileges because the staff felt their incontinence was deliberate, attention-seeking behavior. Last year, a nurse at
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