Following a two week trial and several hours of deliberations, a Kentucky jury has awarded the family of a deceased nursing home patient $8 million in damages for the errors made related to the care of the patient during an admission in 2008. Categorically, the damages were apportioned: $2 million for pain and suffering, $1… Continue Reading
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Nursing Home Injury Laws: Kentucky
Posted in Litigation, National Nursing Home IssuesNumber of nursing homes in Kentucky: 282 Patients living in Kentucky nursing homes: 22,990 Occupancy rates of Kentucky nursing homes: 90.0% Average number of deficiencies at each Kentucky nursing home: 7.6 Percent of Kentucky nursing homes with serious deficiencies for actual harm to patient: 21.6% Most common deficiencies at Kentucky nursing homes: Accident Environment, Food… Continue Reading
Financial Abuse Of The Elderly: Nursing Home Administrator Admits To Stealing From Patients
Posted in EconomicsA former administrator at a Kentucky nursing home has pleaded guilty to multiple charges including: theft, exploitation of a vulnerable adult and tax fraud. The nursing home administrator identified as James Tackett, confessed to stealing more than $300,000 from patients he was responsible for caring for at the Golden Years Rest Home (ironically a… Continue Reading
Too Little, Too Late. Nursing Home Submits Corrective Plan After Disabled Patient Wanders From Facility To His Death
Posted in Elopement & WanderingOne of the most basic safeguards a nursing home can implement to protect its patients — regardless of the patients overall condition— is to have staff available to supervise and periodically check on patients while they are actively engaged in activities as well as when they are resting. While some activities may command supervision from… Continue Reading
Jury Finds Nursing Home Responsible For Alzheimer’s Patients Injuries
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's PatientsAfter two hours of deliberations a Kentucky jury has awarded a former nursing home patient more than $1 million in damages for injuries she sustained while a patient at the facility. The nursing home negligence lawsuit alleged that Cambridge Place Nursing Home in Lexington, KY was negligent in looking after an Alzheimer’s patient who managed… Continue Reading
Government Prosecution Of Kentucky Nursing Home Comes After Facility Has Long Battled Similar Negligence Claims
Posted in Litigation, Whistleblower / Qui Tam ClaimsThe Kentucky nursing home at the heart of a recently filed False Claims Act lawsuit, based upon billing patients for ‘worthless services’ has apparently faced similar claims brought by patients’ families in a civil setting. It seems like the Feds maybe a little late to the party? As reported by Cincinnati.com, Carespring Health Care… Continue Reading
False Claims Act Lawsuit Seeks Damages From Nursing Home That Provided Inadequate Care
Posted in Whistleblower / Qui Tam ClaimsAfter evaluating the care provided to patients at Villaspring Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a Kentucky Nursing Home, the U.S. Attorney’s Office deemed the care so inadequate that the facility should never have billed Medicare or Medicaid for such services. Evaluating a period of care at Villaspring from 2004 through 2008, the investigation discovered that the… Continue Reading
Lawsuit Blames Nurse For Delay In Providing Assistance For Choking Patient
Posted in ChokingA recently filed nursing home lawsuit alleges that the delay in providing treatment for a coking resident resulted in her death. The suit files by the family of the deceased nursing home patient, claims that a nurse and other staff members at the Johnson Mathers Nursing Home were negligent in the the way they responded… Continue Reading
Inadequate Staffing Alleged In Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Nursing Home
Posted in Wrongful DeathA Kentucky nursing home was named in a recently wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a patient who was allegedly neglected at the facility. Donna Anderson’s lawsuit cites inadequate staffing and ongoing deficiencies as the primary reasons for her husband’s physical decline and eventual death at Madison Manor nursing home. According to news… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Ombudsmen Making A Difference In Patients’ Lives
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesPart supervisor, part enforcer, part friend, nursing home ombudsmen commonly play an important role in the well-being of nursing home patients. Generally run as non-profit groups, nursing home ombudsmen help ensure patients rights are protected and resolve issues–big and small– as they arise. Kentucky.com had a heart-warming story about, Nursing Home Ombudsmen Agency of the… Continue Reading
Will Proposal Notifying Coroner Following Nursing Home Deaths Help Deter Abuse?
Posted in Neglect, Nursing Home AbuseThe Lexington Herald Leader is reporting about proposed legislation that would require Kentucky nursing homes to notify coroners following the death of nursing home patients at the facility or shortly after their discharge. The proposal is intended to assist families and prosecutors to identify and pursue situations involving suspected nursing home abuse and neglect. Currently,… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Worker Indicted For ‘Adult Abuse’ After Taking Naked Videos Of Resident
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseHere’s a suggestion for nursing home owners, who wish to ensure the safety and privacy of their patients— take your employee’s cell phones away from them. While ‘on the job’ there is no use for them other than a source of distraction and an invasion of privacy. The most recent situation involving inappropriate use of… Continue Reading
Invasion Of Privacy; Two Kentucky Nursing Homes Cited After Employees Use Cellular Phones To Take Photos Of Residents
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseTwo Kentucky nursing homes have been cited by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services after employees improperly used their cell phones to take photos of residents. The most recent incident took place at Dawson Point. Although the specifics of the incident have not been disclosed, Dawson Point administrator, Margaret Curtis, said she was forced… Continue Reading
Color Coded Bracelets Could Help Staff Comply With Residents’ Last Wishes
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesEnd of life decisions are an obvious personal decision. Whatever the individuals decision to use or withhold lifesaving measures, the individuals decision should be respected and followed by the facility. In medical emergencies where time is of the essence, it may not be practical for nursing home or hospital staff to carefully review the contents… Continue Reading
Extendicare Nursing Home Added To Government ‘Watch List’ Following Abuse Of Resident
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesThe Richmond Health and Rehabilitation Complex, otherwise known as ‘Madison Manor’ has been added to the Special Focus Facility List following the disclosure of a videotape nursing assistants at the facility physically abusing, failing to provide food and failing to clean an 84-year-old resident at the facility in August. The family of the woman placed… Continue Reading
Videotape Reveals Abuse In Kentucky Nursing Home
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseUnsatisfied with the nursing home’s explanation for the dozens of bruises on their 84-year-old grandmother, the family of Armeda Thomas, an 84-year-old resident at Madison Manor Nursing Home decided to place a video camera in the disabled woman’s room. The video tape confirmed that Thomas was the victim of physical and verbal abuse from the… Continue Reading
Government Funding Pulled On Dangerous Nursing Home
Posted in MedicareThe Green Meadows Health Care Center in Louisville, Kentucky has lost its Medicare and Medicaid funding after repeatedly putting their residents at risk for danger and not investigating resident injuries. No specific act of wrong doing is cited in the denial of government funding. Rather, the nursing home has received numerous type ‘A’ citations. Type… Continue Reading