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Friday, April 05, 2013

Nurse fired for reporting Abuse

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Nurse Annie O'Malley says she was fired from the MetroHealth Prentiss Center nursing home for reporting what she believed to be abuse i...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Need for Nursing Home reform

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On the lawn of the state Health Department, flanked by the daughters of a 96-year-old woman who was physically abused by two Oklahoma City n...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Negligent Nursing Homes Grab 5 Billion Tax Dollars in One Year

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 If members of both polital parties bothered to read a report released last week by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector Ge...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

MRSA rampant in Southern California nursing homes, caused by understaffing

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A new study shows a super bug is rampant in nursing homes . Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a staph infection tha...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Nursing home giant guilty in wrongful death suit - Understaffing and cost cutting

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A Sacramento Superior Court jury has returned verdicts of wrongful death and elder abuse against the nation's largest assisted living ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Need for Full Time Nursing Home Dr's

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Jonathan M. Evans is a geriatric physician. A firm believer in onsite physicians at nursing homes , he explained, “The thing that matters ...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Ct Nursing home residents called 'monkeys,' left hungry

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A Litchfield  nursing home has been ordered to hire a new manager, improve resident care and pay a $2,000 fine after findings that adminis...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Lawsuit filed against nursing home for an alleged sexual assault

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A lawsuit has been filed against at Watertown CT. nursing home after one of the patients was allegedly sexually assaulted . The woman died...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Judge rejects mistrial claim in Sacramento elder abuse trial

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The judge rejected an effort Friday by lawyers for Emeritus Corp. to call off the Sacramento civil trial where the survivors of an Alzheimer...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Massachusetts Nursing Homes Cited for Violations

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Over the past three years, Massachusetts nursing home inspectors acting on behalf of the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services f...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Union battling nursing homes places Globe ad highlighting HealthBridge’s antipsychotic track record

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Union battling nursing homes places Globe ad highlighting HealthBridge’s antipsychotic track record: In bold, bright red lettering, a full...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

High fines for nursing North Carolina homes

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State and federal nursing home regulators have imposed some of North Carolina’s heftier fines on Triad nursing homes during the past severa...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Chronic underfunding means short staffing for Maine nursing homes

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Staffing Levels can affect the quality of nursing home care . That is why proper funding is crucial to long term care residents in nursing h...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Administrator fired over nursing home assault - YNN, Your News Now

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Following a case of alleged sexual assault at the Loudonville Nursing Home, an administrator with the home has been fired. According to a s...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Waconia nursing home resident dies as 'tired' staffer fails to give CPR

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A Waconia nursing home employee failed to take necessary emergency actions to save the life of a resident who became unresponsive and soon ...