Category: Abuse and Neglect

Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act

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 another nursing home revealed

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

Staffing and Immigration

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

Cornell Study on Resident on Resident Abuse

I saw this article on another website discussing the recent Cornell University study on physical abuse between residents.  Resident on resident abuse is underreported and mismanaged in the nursing home setting and most likely caused Physical abuse in a nursing home may include staff or other residents.  According to a Cornell University Study, resident-on-resident violence

Rape trial of 98 year old resident

This article is very disturbing.  I cannot believe that the nursing home did not recognize this obvious sociopath. A Victorian nursing home employee accused of pinning down a 98-year-old dementia patient “like an animal” and raping her was just doing his job, according to his defense lawyer.   Henry Alexander, 35, of Mount Martha, is accused

Suit filed against rapist and facility

I read an article this weekend about a resident who was physically and sexually assaulted by the groundskeeper for a nursing home facility.  The family of an Alzheimer’s resident who was sexually assaulted by former Bedminster supervisor Robert Holland has sued him and the woman’s nursing home for civil damages. The late Helen Priester was 92

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