In Kentucky, State Representative Tom Burch will introduce a new proposal to the House of Health and Welfare committee that could aid in reducing or possibly halting abuse and neglect cases in nursing homes by having nursing homes report all deaths to the coroner. According to the report from CBS affiliate WKYT, current law does not require nursing home staff to report a death if it is believed to be caused by natural causes.
Continue Reading...Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky has accepted a report on nursing home and elder abuse reform by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS). The report was commissioned after a series of nursing home abuse cases in Kentucky and allegations that the state did not investigate them properly. It suggests changes to the procedures for reporting incidents of neglect or abuse. The governor has ordered that the recommendations be implemented immediately.
Continue Reading...The Lexington, Kentucky NBC Affiliate, LEX18 has reported that an administrator for Hazard Nursing Home Incorporated and the company itself have been charged with failure to report suspected elder abuse. The report states that 61-year-old Sheila Noe was allegedly aware of a possible case of elder sexual abuse from one patient to another and did not report the incident to proper authorities.
Continue Reading...According to a news report from WOWKTV in Charleston, WV, the YWCA has developed a program that will be used to assist women that are victims of elder abuse. Together with the YWCA, the Shanklin Center Apartments in West Virginia offer permanent housing to people that have been victimized and rendered homeless as a result of elder abuse.
Continue Reading...The Illinois Government News Network has posted a report on their website discussing a bill that Governor Pat Quinn has signed that will protect elderly individuals in Illinois from suffering elder financial abuse. The report states that this new law will call for financial institutions to set stronger methods in place to identify and report financial abuse of elderly individuals.
Continue Reading...The Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act was reintroduced into the Senate this week. The bill is intended to prevent workers with criminal histories from working in skilled nursing facilities.
The bill requires each state to establish coordinated systems that include checks against neglect and abuse registries, the FBI database and state police records.
The bill had been introduced last year but failed to make it out of Congress.
State background investigation requirements are checkered and lack any uniformity making it easy for someone with a criminal conviction in one state to escape detection in another.
If this legislation becomes law, it will go a long way in reducing violence to nursing home residents.
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