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
Joshua Gaunt is calling for authorities to investigate The Ashford assisted living facility. A camera recorded a staff member assaulting his elderly mother. It shows the nursing aide berating 76-year-old Anne Brown, who suffers from advanced-stage dementia, as she seemingly refuses to get out of bed. The aide says, “Always sitting there with that dumbass
Nine Black nurses and aides have filed a lawsuit against an Alabama nursing home for placing them in a “racially discriminatory hostile environment,” Atlanta Black Star reports. The women claim they suffered verbal abuse, and dealt with racial taunts at Florala Health and Rehabilitation, including being called slurs like the N-word and “slave girls.” Meanwhile,
11Alive had an incredibly tragic story of Brian Jones. His life changed in 2018 after a sleep-deprived truck driver slammed into him, leaving him paralyzed. That was horrific. The tragedy is how he was treated at Pruitt Health in Lilburn. “I have been left sitting in feces and urine for 7 to 8 hours,” he
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