After Video Of Nursing Home Abuse, Attorney General Gets Involved
Sensing something wasn't right, the family of an Ohio Nursing Home patient elected to put a hidden camera in their loved ones room. After several months of recordings, the camera provided what the family had suspected all along-- that staff at the Prentiss Center for Skilled Nursing Care (part of the MetroHealth) were indeed abusing the woman. In all three nurses aides were seen mistreating the woman and have been disciplined by the facility. Now the Ohio Attorney General is conducting their own investigation and may pursue criminal charges against these nursing home workers. Related: Criminal & Civil...
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New York Nursing Home Workers Removed After Abusing Disabled Patients
It always surprises me how many people wind up working in jobs that they are completely unsuited for! While many of these people may later gravitate towards jobs that may be a better fit, it usually does come with any harm to people. Not in the case of two women have been removed from their position at Northgate Health Care Facility (NY). Nursing assistant Alicia Clemens and her co-worker Gloria Maxwell were both removed from their position at the nursing home and similarly banned from working in other nursing homes by the New York State Health Department. Their...
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Elder Abuse: Captured On Video At California Facility
The California Department of Social Services revoked the residential care home license from Fair Oaks Care Home. The revocation comes after the family of a patient at the facility came forth with a hidden video demonstrating staff abusing the elderly patient. In addition to abusive living conditions, the state further alleges that the facility was unfit to care for patients due to: Fire code violations Improperly disposing dirty needles Forging prescription Dispensing expired prescriptions Sadly, the abusive conditions in the video were not discovered until after the death of the woman at the facility. Though the woman's death is...
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Video Demonstrates Proper Dressing Changes For Patients With Pressure Ulcers
In order to heal a pressure ulcer, staff at nursing homes, hospitals or wound clinics must pay extra attention to dressings on the wound. Too often, the problems associated with pressure ulcers are compounded when staff fail to follow physician orders with respect to the frequently of dressing changes or the dressings changes are not done properly. When dressing changes are not properly done, the wound will take longer to heal and the likelihood of infection increases. This video demonstrates proper dressing changing technique. Nursing Home Injury Laws: Bed Sore, Pressure Sores, Decubitus Ulcer, Pressure Sores Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers:...
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Why Didn't I Think Of This?
As a father of an active toddler, I am well versed in the importance of keeping close tabs on him at all times. We keep a video monitor on him to make sure he doesn't harm himself. Video monitoring has even gone to the streets in Chicago where police can monitor street traffic in crime ridden areas. The time has come for monitoring to take the jump to nursing homes. "Granny Cams" as Attorney David Terry describes in the Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog would be an important part of protecting our nursing home residents from nursing home abuse from...
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Caught On Tape: 90-Year-Old Man Beaten By Home Nurse
Think the term 'nursing home abuse' is made up by lawyers? Cameras don't lie... ...
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