I saw this article about a woman who was a resident of a Tennessee nursing home where they found maggots in her ear. How could this happen? Who is checking her? It is disgusting and unacceptable. I’m surprised the facility isn’t claiming it is part of her care and treatment! A Health Department investigation revealed that
I saw an article about resident abuse that is common and difficult to prove without the testimony of an honest employee of the nursing home. The industry has labeled injuries caused by abuse to be “injuries of unknown origins”. Perhaps, they should polygrapg the employees who provided care and treatment to the resident to determine
Although there is a concern regarding privacy issues, many families use hidden video cameras to document neglect by nursing home employees. These cameras are useful especially when the nursing home denies neglect or fails to supervise employees apporpriately. I ran across an article that illustates my point perfectly. An ex-employee of a Rochester nursing home
Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl is trying to prevent abuse by insituting a national system for criminal background checks on nursing home employees. Please contact your Senators and encourage them to support this legislation. Sen. Kohl says the best way to protect our elders from physical abuse is to institute a national system for background checks to determine
Poor conditions at a Tn nursing home prompted the state to prohibit the facility from admitting new patients. The state suspended any new patients from being admitted to the Cornelia House. A State Health Department review paints a different picture, detailing a successful escape this past April, in which a patient with dementia walked out
Several years ago, I was having dinner with a friend who had at one time worked in the same nursing home I had worked in. We began talking about staffing and ways to ensure that you had good staff, and ways to hold the staff accountable. She had recently suggested to the company that she