Police arrested and charged another certified nursing assistant (CNA) for sexually assaulting two elderly nursing home residents at Bear Hill Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Wakefield and Knollwood Nursing Center in Worcester. The alleged assailant worked overnight shifts at the nursing homes. Apparently without any supervision. As a CNA, Wachira was responsible for changing, bathing,
Nursing home surveillance cameras caught two employees abuse and taunt a vulnerable resident. Clearly caught on tape. The employees were teenage girls who work in a rural nursing home in Minnesota. Police accuse these caregivers of abusing and taunting an elderly female with dementia. Reports from the local police department and Minnesota Department of Health
Ignore Safety The Star-Tribune reported on the case of a Covid whistleblower. Brooke Peoples was the administrator at St. Therese of New Hope nursing home. The facility was the site of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak last year. Peoples said the facility ordered its caregivers to violate safety regulations to prevent the spread of the epidemic in
Vox reports that hospitals are turning away patients in hard-hit Southern states. Throughout the South, hospitals are reporting they have more patients in need of ICU care than ICU beds available, as the Times reported. Americans are being transported hundreds of miles from their homes because no nearby hospital has room for them. Some even died
Vaccination Rates CMS publishes available information online on CMS’s Care Compare site through Medicare.gov. The purpose is to help consumers determine safety and increase pressure on facilities with low vaccination rates. The new features allow users to search for nursing homes by location. Users can select multiple nursing homes to display and compare the data
Certified nursing assistants are unlicensed health care providers. They provide custodial care and provide assistance with activities of daily living. Activities of daily living include personal hygiene, transfers and ambulation, eating, and bathing. They are often paid slave wages with no benefits. New research published in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that CNAs are the least
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