Criminal Charges Brought Against Nursing Home Workers Who Allowed Resident To Freeze To Death
Criminal charges have been brought against three nursing home workers on duty the night an Alzheimer's patient wandered from Texas nursing home to his death. The three were employed in various capacities at a facility known as Tumbleweed Nursing Home on the evening of February 3rd of this year. Surveillance video from the nursing home demonstrated that an Alzheimer's patient that the staff was responsible for supervising wandered without any intervention from the safety of the nursing home into the frigid outside temperatures. Hours after the patient left the nursing home, he was found dead outside. An autopsy revealed...
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Abuse & Cover-Up At Assisted Living Facility Caring For the Disabled
Two caregivers responsible for caring for a mentally and physically disabled man face criminal charges following an intensive police investigation that points the finger at them for his death at Richmond State Supported Living Center in Fort Bend County (Texas). An autopsy of the disabled man, revealed that he died from blunt force trauma to his abdomen. Prosecutors believe that the caregiver responsible for providing non-medical care to the man struck him in the stomach in the early morning hours of October 8th of last year. A nurse who was scheduled to make regular checks on the disabled man--...
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Assisted Living Facility Willing To Forgive & Forget Nurse's Criminal Past
Everyone deserves a second chance--- or do they? What about when the individual has a past that makes him / her particularly unsuitable for a particular job? What if the person is working with particularly vulnerable people? Should we just ignore the person's past indiscretions and give them the opportunity to redeem themselves? While I can appreciate the gesture of giving someone a new beginning, I certainly hope that it's not done with the safety my family member at stake! A news story about an admitted drug user and thief-- seemingly two times over-- caught my attention-- not so much...
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CNA Arrested After Soliciting Sexual Favors From Resident
Apparently, a history of criminal financial behavior wasn't enough to discourage the owners of Waterbook Assisted Living from hiring Katonia Davis as a CNA at their facility--- because she wasn't going to be handling any of the finances at the facility. Yet, just four months into her tenure at the North Carolina assisted living facility, Ms. Davis apparently couldn't control the strong feeling she had for a resident at the facility that she was to care for. Another employee at the facility witnessed Ms. Davis pay the resident $20 for him to perform sexual acts with her. While Davis...
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Criminal & Civil Charges Brought Against Sunrise Facility After Videotaped Abuse
The family of a Pennsylvania assisted living patient has initiated a civil lawsuit against Sunrise Senior Living, a popular chain of assisted living facilities, after a hidden video demonstrated that three employees at the facility were abusing their 78-year-old mother. The family installed the hidden camera after they suspected that their mother was being mistreated at the facility. According to news reports, the families concerns were discarded by officials at Sunrise due to the fact that their mother suffered from Alzheimer's making alleging her condition made her incapable of accurately articulating the abuse. In addition to the civil lawsuit against...
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Nursing Home Cover-Up: NY Aides Lied About Doing Their Jobs
As a nursing home lawyer, I spend a lot of time reviewing patient charts. Particularly when it comes to evaluating cases, a thorough review of medical records is crucial for determining the important questions: Who? What? Why? When? Occasionally, my chart reviews reveal more than I expect when: medication charts reveal that medication was administered for days after my client was transferred to another facility. Or on one occasion, there were nurses’ notes for hours following a client’s death. When I see serious charting errors, I makes me question not just the care surrounding a particular incident, but all care...
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Nurse Facing Criminal Charges After Intentionally Neglecting Ventilator Patient
Perhaps Abiodun Oke should be shoveling asphalt or a similar occupation where a person's compassionate side is not necessarily crucial to the job? On the other hand, as a licensed practical nurse (such as Mr. Oke)--- or really any profession responsible for caring for the elderly-- I would suggest have substantial dose of compassion as they are the ones who are responsible for providing the daily care necessary for some of the most fragile members of society. The reason I suggest that Mr. Oke look for a more physical type of work is that he faces criminal charges relating to...
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Nursing Home Abuse: Workers' Prank In Applying Grease To Dementia Patients In California Results In Criminal Charges
A demented sense of humor amongst nursing home workers at Valley View Skilled Nursing Facility seems to have backfired-- and has landed a group of them jobless and facing criminal charges. The fallout stems from an incident in which four employees at the California nursing home, covered dementia patients at the facility with lubricant from head to toe, making the patients slippery for staff on the next shift to handle. In the wake of the incident and following investigations from the nursing homes parent company, Horizon West Healthcare and the California Attorney General's Bureau of Elder Abuse, it was determined...
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Court Determines Nursing Home Corporation Can't Be Criminally Prosecuted For Employees' Negligent Conduct
The collective negligence of multiple nursing home employees does not impute criminal conduct on the part of the corporate owner according to a recent ruling made the Supreme Judicial Court-- the highest court in Massachusetts. The decision stems from the death of a 74-year-old patient at a MA nursing home owned by Life Care Centers of America. Despite the patient's extensive history with respect to wandering from the facility, the facility failed to take basic precautionary measures that would likely prevented the wheelchair-bound patient from falling down a set of stairs to her death. An investigation into the patient's death...
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Health Care Company Rips Off State By Providing Less Skilled Workers To Care For Ventilator Patients
Criminal charges have been filed against Barbara Currin, the owner of Ometta Vent Care Services. The criminal charges come after a patient Currin was responsible for caring for, tipped off state officials she was not receiving the medical care that the state was paying for. The tip initiated an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Attorney General. Both agencies concluded that Ometta was not keeping up its end of the bargain in proving skilled nursing services for vent patients. According to Attorney General Lori Swanson said, "The nursing facility deprived patients who are very in...
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