Category: Staffing

Supervision Failure

Supervision of vulnerable adults suffering from dementia is a key purpose of long term care facilities. The main safety issue. Ohio Valley Manor nursing home allowed Margaret Marshall to suffer preventable injuries when they failed to supervise her. She wandered away from the nursing home, was injured, and died from her injuries. The hospital reported

Exhausted or drugged?

A video appears to show a caregiver sleeping. The New York State Health Department launched an investigation of an Auburn Rehabilitation & Nursing Center employee who appears to have fallen asleep on the job. The comments are insightful.

Evading Overtime

The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division accuses the owner of three Michigan nursing homes owe more than $69,000 in back wages after regularly switching the employment status of 45 managers from hourly to salaried to evade overtime pay. Owner Amee Patel paid hourly wages when the managers worked fewer than 40 hours

Criminally negligent homicide

CBS News reported the conviction of two nursing home caregivers for criminally negligent homicide, a felony. Police charged Letticia Martinez, Jamie Johnston and Jenny Logan for the death of 86-year-old Hazel Place. They left her unattended and unsupervised for over 6 hours in the hot sun. Prosecutors with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office told CBS4 that

Sexual Assault Arrest

WPXI reported a nursing home worker in Mount Lebanon is charged with sexual assault of a resident. Certified nurse assistant Solomon Rivers also known as Solomon Roberson is charged with institutional sexual assault. Documents show the victim in this case has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old and is confined to a wheelchair. According to the criminal

Unqualified Caregivers

The U.S. Department of Justice charged 25 Floridians a wire fraud scheme that created illegal licenses and employment shortcuts to supply unqualified caregivers to nursing homes throughout the southeast including South Carolina. The defendants “engaged in a scheme to sell fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts obtained from accredited Florida-based nursing schools.”

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