Nursing Home Abuse: CNA Punches 87-Year-Old Nursing Home Resident In The Face For Not Following Instructions
Seemingly straight out of the fiction section, another CNA stands accused of punching an elderly person she was responsible for caring for. The Champaign County Sheriff arrested Sharoia D. Hill of Danville, IL, for the aggravated battery of a senior citizen. The alleged battery took place at the Champaign County Nursing Home in Southern Illinois, where Hill was a CNA in the Alzheimer's unit. According to Hill's co-workers, the elderly man involved would not return a gait belt, used to help transfer residents, back to Hill. In apparent retaliation, Hill punched the man two times with a closed fist. A...
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CNA Facing Battery Charges After Co-Worker Reports Abuse To Authorities
Karen Buck, a CNA in Muncie, Indiana, is facing Class D felony (abuse of individuals who are physically or mentally disabled) battery charges after allegedly slapping a 94-year-old nursing home resident in the mouth. The alleged incident took place in June 2, 2007 at the Golden Living Center after the nursing home resident became agitated when Buck began to change the dressings on her feet with open wounds. The resident was unable to speak due to complications from a stroke. Authorities were tipped off to this incident following the report from Buck's co-worker who saw the nursing home abuse taking...
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Hazing Type Abuse In Mississippi Nursing Home
Recent national headlines regarding abusive nursing home workers appear almost surreal. Abusive people caring for the most vulnerable seems commonplace. Nonetheless, I was particularly disturbed to hear the report of nursing home abuse involving nurses at a Mississippi Nursing Home. Clarionledger.com reports, two employees of Graceland Care Center have been arrested for crimes involving abuse of vulnerable adults. According to the Mississippi Attorney General, Jim Hood, the arrests of the nurses were made following indictments by a Mississippi grand jury. Cynthia Hunt, a 46-year-old LPN was charged with two felony counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult for an alleged incident where she...
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Nursing Home Abusers To Be Released
I just did a double-take. Four nursing home employees charged with abusing residents at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Minnesota will soon be released from custody. The Minnesota Attorney General blames the the nursing home employees release on a lack of hard evidence and hearsay testimony. Blog readers may recall these four 'Minnesota girls gone wild' from my earlier post. The charges stem from a report where the nursing home employees victimized residents suffer from dementia or related disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. The report alleges the following incidents of physical abuse and neglect: spitting in mouths poking breasts and nipples...
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Nurse Charged With Abuse & Neglect After Abandoning Residents At Assisted Living Facility
Episania Fitzgerald was charged with abuse and neglect of an elderly person when she decided to leave her post as night nurse at an assisted living facility. Fitzgerald told the sheriff's office investigating the matter that she left the assisted living facility with another resident in charge to provide home health care services elsewhere. Fitzgerald was gone for more than two hours, leaving the 21 elderly residents completely unattended. During, nurse Fitzgerald's leave an 88-year-old resident fell on the bathroom floor requiring paramedic assistance. It is unknown what, if any action the facility will take as discipline for this nurses...
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Spraying Foam, Pulling Hair, Breaking Hands--Just Another Day At Work For This Nurses Aide
A 22-year-old Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) has plead guilty to multiple charges involving nursing home abuse and neglect. Christine Borasky plead guilty to felony charges of second-degree endangering the welfare of a vulnerable person. Ms. Borasky admitted to spraying foam into the face of an 82-year-old nursing home resident. Additionally, this CNA pulled the woman's hair and squeezed the nursing home resident's hand so hard that it broke. Under the terms of the plea agreement, this CNA must surrender her license and will be on probation for 5 years. Read more about this bad nurse here. What in the world...
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Sex Crimes Land Utah Nursing Home Worker In Jail
Jacob Mut Bolith, was sentenced by a Utah Judge to 15 years in jail and to pay restitution for the sex crimes he committed on nursing home residents. Bolith plead guilty to second-degree felony forcible sex abuse of an 85-year-old woman in a nursing home where he was employed. Bolith's attorney Clayton Simms asked the Judge to sentence his client for 365 days in addition to the 389 days he has already served. He asked for leniency because Bolith is a Sudanese refugee who was displaced from his home and spent time in Ethiopia and Kenya before he came to...
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Nusing Home Supervisor Admits To Abusing 100 Residents
John Riems, a former nursing home supervisor at Conrad Care and Rehabilitation Center in Ohio. During questioning by prosecutors, Reims admitted to abusing nearly 100 patients during his 22-year career at nursing homes. Reims is under investigation from an original charges involving the allegations of abuse involving a 55-year-old blind man and a partially paralyzed man in his 80's. Fourteen more felony counts have been filed against Mr. Reims since the investigation began-- 12 counts of rape and two counts of felonious sexual penetration. Read more about this Ohio nursing home story here. I certainly believe in 'innocent until proven...
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