NPR had a great article on resident to resident altercations in long term care facilities. Violent altercations between residents of long-term care facilities are very common. Throughout the country, many residents in nursing homes or assisted living centers have been killed due to these resident-to-resident altercations. These residents have weaponized a bed rail, shoved pillow
A home aide is currently “on the run” after she was caught beating an elderly woman, Dorothy, who’s 95 years old, with a saucepan in her apartment on July 21st. Dorothy’s granddaughters placed cameras throughout her apartment in Harlem, New York, where they witnessed in horror as the healthcare worker assaulted their loved one with
The family of Vera Plares, a 98-year-old Santa Clara woman, is claiming that the nursing home where she was living is liable after Plares’s roommate beat her to death with a cane. Plares was a resident at the for-profit Mission Skilled Nursing & Subacute Center in Santa Clara. Last December, Plares’ roommate, 78-year-old Connie Delucca,
Many staff members of the Colonial Heights Nursing Home were seen before a judge because of an investigation associated with elder abuse within the facility. The facility failed to provide services necessary to maintain the health, safety, and well-being of the residents. The resident was left in her feces and urine, not properly turned, and not
McKnight’s had an article showing how the profitable nursing home industry is whining about regulatory oversight. According to Foley & Lardner partner Matt Krueger, the increased “scrutiny” faced by nursing home providers since 2020 includes an “overall increased and increasingly hostile approach by surveyors in the quality-of-care area. Another area that I think we continue
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