Nursing Home Worker Gets Seven Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Disabled Patient
Testifying through an interpreter and via spelling out words, a disabled nursing home patient convinced a New York City jury that her allegations of sexual abuse during her admission to a New York nursing home were indeed true. Consequently, her former CNA Jose Ramos will face seven years in prison for his crimes. The district attorney was summoned to prosecute the case after when a nurse at the nursing facility saw Ramos sexually assaulting the woman in her room. As a nursing home lawyer, I was glad to see that justice had been served in this matter as sexual abuse...
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Another Sexual Assault Of A Nursing Home Patient At The Hands Of A Convicted Felon
Sadly, the most recent episode of the sexual assault of nursing home patient at the hands of convicted felon-- who happens to be a fellow patient--- occurred last week in a Florida Nursing Home. 57-year-old Larry Donneal Evans, admitted to the sexual assault of a disabled female patient at the nursing home. The nursing home staff caught Mr. Evans in the act of assaulting the disabled woman and immediately reported the incident to police authorities. In addition to admitting to his inappropriate behavior, Mr. Evans stated that he did not stop his groping because the woman never said 'stop'. Prior...
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Disabled Nursing Home Patient 'Dumped' At A Homeless Shelter
Lots of chatter on Twitter over the weekend about Thai Hodges, a disabled woman who was taken to a homeless shelter by the good folks at ManorCare after her funds had apparently dried up. Hodges was admitted to ManorCare for rehabilitation and skilled nursing care after she suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. The good news about the story (if there really is any) is that Sylvia Negley, the shelter coordinator realized that Hodges was clearly in need of medical care and refused to take her in and sent her back to the nursing home for additional care. Negley says...
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Rather Than Do His Job, Nurse Would Rather 'Tie Down' Patient In New York Nursing Home
I know some blog readers think that I just re-post the same entries about nursing home employees abusing their patients--- but I'm not. The reality is that nursing home abuse is a problem encountered by an untold number of patients in nursing homes across the country. Out of New York, another case of abuse by a nurse's aide has recently made headlines when a nurses aide became irritated after a disabled patient repeatedly used a call light for assistance in the early morning hours in May, 2008. Rather than tend to the patient's needs, the aide chose to put an...
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