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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Nursing Home employee accused of exposing self

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 A Carmichaels man is facing several charges after police said he inappropriately touched a co-worker at the nursing home he worked at. A...

Pueblo nursing home hit with $3.7 million judgement for patient's death

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A Pueblo nursing home was hit with a $3.7 million judgement Monday when a jury found its management and staff liable for the death of one o...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Nurse’s aide convicted of abusing patient

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After a week-long jury trial in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, a former nurse’s aide was found guilty Friday of nursing home patient abuse...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

$900,000 for death at Kirkland adult-family home

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For 22 days, caregivers at a Kirkland adult-family home guarded a secret. An elderly woman at Houghton Lakeview nursing home suffered from...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Costs of Nursing Home Care

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In-home U.S. senior care costs $16-$26 per hour, or $150-$280 for 24-hour live-in care, while a nursing home costs $180-$400 a day, expert...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Amgen will pay $25M to resolve kickback case including kickbacks to Kindred

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The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that biotech drugmaker Amgen Inc. will pay $24.9 million to resolve claims it paid kickbacks to...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

$90 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home will stand

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A $90 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home will stand for now after a judge denied the business ow...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Investigators: Wisconsin’s worst nursing homes

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Some of the worst nursing homes in Wisconsin continue to violate state and federal regulations designed to protect our sickest and most vul...
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...