There are many nursing homes that have caring and kind staff that attend to all the needs your loved on has. The kind nursing home workers are often not recognized enough for their dedication and their compassion. One family decided to pay tribute to the nursing home workers that had a great impact on their loved one’s life.
Continue Reading...There are many nursing homes that have caring and kind staff that attend to all the needs your loved on has. The kind nursing home workers are often not recognized enough for their dedication and their compassion. One family decided to pay tribute to the nursing home workers that had a great impact on their loved one’s life.
Continue Reading...According to new U.S Labor Department statistics, nursing home workers are accidentally injured on the job at a higher rate than workers in other types of professions. The statistics measured the injury rates by the number of injuries per every 100 full-time employees in 2010.
Continue Reading...An 84-year-old woman was being placed on a mechanical lift when she was dropped head first from several feet out of the full body lift. The two nursing home residents who were helping her have been reprimanded for failing to properly strap the woman inside the lift.
Continue Reading...A nursing assistant in a Georgetown, TX nursing home has been terminated for reports that she had injured an 88-year-old patient. According to the attacker’s police arrest affidavit she is facing a charge of injury to the elderly and police are planning to arrest her.
Continue Reading...A woman in Kalamazoo, MI still mourns the death of her elderly mother who died in August 2010 at her nursing home. The elderly woman’s tracheostomy tube was somehow caught around a bed rail and became dislodged.
Continue Reading...In Willmar, MN a nursing home is being blamed for the death of a resident who chocked on raw cucumbers that should not have been served for her according to reports by state officials.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has announced a Senior Anti-Crime University in Sedona on June 24. This free half-day seminar will feature classes on consumer scams, investment fraud, personal safety, elder abuse, financial exploitation and other issues affecting seniors.
Continue Reading...A North Carolina nursing home worker has been arrested for murder after allegedly giving an Alzheimer's patient a lethal dose of morphine. Angela Almore also faces felony abuse charges for overmedicating at least six other residents with morphine. It is believed that Almore overmedicated the residents in order to keep them docile and manageable.
Continue Reading...Among the millions of missing person’s each year, many are elderly who had resided at a nursing home and wandered off. Accoding to an article by Enterprisenews.com, Thomas Gould, 54, was reported missing two weeks ago from Old Colony Rest Home where he had resided for several years.
Continue Reading...The former CEO of a Milwaukee nursing home who stole from her nursing home while patients were neglected is going to prison for tax evasion. The CEO is alleged to have stolen over $1 million from her nursing home while patients were denied baths and clean sheets and one resident jumped to his death after the staff ignored his threats of suicide.
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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