One of the nursing home workers who physically abused patients in Albert Lea, Minn. learned her punishment last month. Brianna Broitzman was sentenced to only 180 days in jail. She pleaded guilty to the charges in August. It’s a staggered sentence where she will serve 60 days immediately and was taken directly to jail from the courtroom.
Vermont’s Rutland Herald had an interesting article about Leslie A. Whittington who is the subject of an investigation that alleges she interfered with medical care, did not keep records or adequate supplies on hand and attempted to intimidate her staff into either writing positive statements about her or recanting negative ones, according to a pair
Interesting article from the Courant.com about a deal to sell the bankrupt Haven Healthcare nursing-home chain. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that Formation Capital, which owns Genesis HealthCare, notified the state that it was pulling out of an $85 million deal to take over 14 of Haven’s homes in Connecticut and 10 in other New England states,
NY Times had an article about the overuse of certain medications in elderly residents. Below are excerpts of the article. Ramona Lamascola thought she was losing her 88-year-old mother to dementia. Instead, she was losing her to overmedication. Last fall her mother, Theresa Lamascola, of the Bronx, suffering from anxiety and confusion, was put on
In Dallas, Texas a local television station has been running background checks on licensed nurses. They have found “thousands of nurses with arrest records.” That much didn’t surprise me – but the arrests include murder, kidnapping and arson. What? Murder? My immediate thought was, don’t employers do background checks? My second thought was, are these
Alabama NewsChannell 19 had a horrendous story of neglect on their website. NewsChannel 19’s Carson Clark reported that a Marshall County Nursing Home is in trouble with state and federal officials after a patient died there. A doctor says the Golden Living Center in Boaz allowed a young woman to scream for help for more than
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