Number of nursing homes in New York: 636 Patients living in New York nursing homes: 109,218 Occupancy rates of New York nursing homes: 92.4% Average number of deficiencies at each New York nursing home: 7.6 Percent of New York nursing homes with serious deficiencies for actual harm to patient: 23.1% Most common deficiencies at New… Continue Reading
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Wheelchair Patient Falls To Death Down Un-secured Staircase In Nursing Home
Posted in Nursing Home Falls, Nursing Home InjuryWithout a doubt, one of the most frustrating aspects of litigating cases involving nursing home injuries is that many of them derive from the failure of staff to implement the most common sense safeguards. Unlike situations where a facility may be negligent providing poor medical care for a patient (which is plenty disturbing), the emergence… Continue Reading
Three New York Nurses Surrender Licenses After Being Charged with Nursing Home Abuse
Posted in Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home InjuryGraphic details have recently emerged about three New York nurses who subjected their nursing home patients to sustained verbal and physical abuse. According to an article in Mid-HudsonNews.com, Myrna Siegel, an RN at the Sullivan County Adult Care Facility in Liberty, forcibly held down a patient and called her an “evil witch.” In another incident,… Continue Reading
Should Communication Classes Become Mandatory For Nursing Home Workers?
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesI tend to harp on specific instances of misconduct where a nurse or nursing home employee makes and error that results in harm to a patient. While many of these occurrences are the result of poor judgement and inadequate training, I’m beginning to think that a deeper issue may be behind many instances of injuries… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Worker Gets Seven Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Disabled Patient
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseTestifying 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… Continue Reading
New York Nursing Home Workers Removed After Abusing Disabled Patients
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseIt 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… Continue Reading
Pharmacy Error Blamed For Death Of Nursing Home Patient After She Receives Incorrect Medication
Posted in Medication Errors, Pharmacy ErrorAn error by an institutional pharmacy, HealthDirect, is responsible for the death of a 94-year old patient at a New York nursing home. According to New York Health Department reports, the woman was to receive methimazole, to treat her thyroid condition, but pharmacists at HealthDirect filled the prescription with metolazone– a significantly different medication used… Continue Reading
Feds Impose Fine Against Nursing Home After Dangerous Smoking Conditions Discovered
Posted in BurnsSmoking in nursing homes can be a highly contested area, where a patient’s right to smoke is pitted against the facilities responsibility to ensure that protocols are in effect to protect the patients. As a lawyer who has prosecuted smoking-related injuries and deaths, I see a definite correlation between patient injury and sloppy implementation of… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Abuse: Hidden Camera Catches Nurse Yanking The Wheelchair Of A Disabled Patient
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseIf you think ‘nursing home abuse’ is simply a term of art, thrown into headlines for the purpose of getting attention– think again. Below is an actual video of a nurse seemingly intentionally yanking the wheelchair of a disabled nursing home patient. The yanking of the chair caused the patient to fall to the floor… Continue Reading
New York Jury Punishes Nursing Home Where Man Develops More Than 20 Bed Sores
Posted in Bed Sore Lawsuit, LitigationIt never fails to amaze me. Frequently, when I tell people about some of the cases I work on involving bed sores, I only to get a ‘so what?’ reaction from them. Are the people who surround me heartless? Maybe some of them (just joking, honey)? Nonetheless, the reality is that most people have no… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Patient Sustains Serious Burns After Smoking In His Bed
Posted in BurnsA nursing home patient, connected to an oxygen line, sustained serious burns to his face and after his cigarette ignited the nasal line and the bed in which he was laying. The incident took place at Summit Park Nursing Home in New York. Nurses were able to extinguish the fire before the man sustained more… Continue Reading
Rather Than Do His Job, Nurse Would Rather ‘Tie Down’ Patient In New York Nursing Home
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseI 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… Continue Reading
Nurse Charged With Rape Of Disabled Patient
Posted in Sexual Abuse & AssaultAfter a six-month investigation by a New York grand jury, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) is now facing formal criminal charges of: second degree rape and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or disabled person. This story first came to light when a complaint was reported to the New York State Department of Health… Continue Reading
‘Dignity Training’ Ordered For Staff In New York Nursing Home After They Humiliate Residents Who Need Assistance With Toileting
Posted in Nursing Home StaffPerhaps one of the most de-humanizing aspects of nursing home life is the reliance on others for toileting needs. Especially in the case of bed-bound residents, notifying a staff member every-time one needs to use the toilet, means being reliant on others for basic bodily functions. When the staff fails to timely assist with toileting… Continue Reading
Nurse Charged With Sexually Abusing Two Nursing Home Residents
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseA CNA at Northwoods Rehabilitation Center, a New York nursing home, is being charged multiple felony charges related to an alleged sexual assault of a 78-year-old resident. The New York Attorney General has filed criminal charges against Robert Gunderson for sexual assaults that occurred at Northwoods between December, 2007 and January 2008. Gunderson faces similar… Continue Reading
Engagement Ring Stolen From The Hand Of Disabled Resident In New York Nursing Home
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesIn a brazen display of greed, a nurse’s aid entered the room of a disabled New York nursing home resident and removed her engagement ring directly from her hand. Local police say Chad Smith, a nurses aide at Eastern Star Nursing Home will be charged with third-degree grand larceny. After Smith removed the engagement ring… Continue Reading
Brooklyn Nursing Homes Fined For Failing To Provide Safe Living Conditions
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesThree Brooklyn nursing homes have received fines by federal and state official totaling almost $18,000 for failing to provide safe living conditions to their residents. The New York nursing homes that received fines include: Wartburg Nursing Home: The East New York facility was ordered to pay $10,400 due to the fact that Wartburg was not… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Worker Faces 25 Years In Jail Following Molestation Of Disabled Patient
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's PatientsJuan Tavares-Nunez of Queens, has been convicted by a jury of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person. The incident occurred in 2007, when Tavares-Nunez was working as a porter at Cliffside Nursing Home in Flushing, NY. Tavares-Nunez, who had been working in the New York Nursing Home… Continue Reading
Caregivers Charged With Abusing Elderly In New York Nursing Homes
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseThe New York Attorney General is on a roll– prosecuting abusive nursing home workers. Two certified nursing aide’s (CNA’s) represent Mr. Cuomo’s latest arrests. Monique Jones, 32 of Rochester, is accused of kicking and 88-year-old resident in his ribs at Kirkhaven Nursing Home. Nellie Weller, 47 of Rochester, is accused of tying a 76-year-old resident’s… Continue Reading
Nurses Caught Administering Insulin To Non-Diabetic Nursing Home Residents
Posted in Medication ErrorsNew York Nursing Home inspectors were recently called to investigate, Hilltop Nursing Home, following two incidents where nurses at the facility gave insulin to non-diabetic residents. The residents went into shock and were hospitalized. According to a report from the New York Department of Public Health, the two incidents were investigated following tips made on… Continue Reading
New York Nursing Home Investigated Over Sex Abuse Claims
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseA dementia patient has been removed from The Shore Winds Nursing Home following a report of alleged sex abuse by a nurse at the facility. The complaint was reported to the New York State Health Department of Health and a preliminary investigation by the agency determined the claim to be serious enough to merit a… Continue Reading
Three New York Nursing Home Employees Charged With Abusing Elderly
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseThree employees of Gowanda Nursing Home, of New York, face criminal charges related to their allegedly abusive treatment of their elderly patients. According to court papers, Andrew Austin, a CNA at the New York Nursing Home, admittedly used racial epithets and physically attacked a resident after he refused to take his medications. The abusive behavior… Continue Reading
Lawsuit Filed Against New York Nursing Home In Relation To Nun’s Death
Posted in LitigationThe family of a 90-year-old nun who died from complications related to a fractured skull has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center. The New York nursing home allegedly failed to secure unsteady dressers, within residents rooms, to the wall. Apparently, when the nun attempted to get some… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Resident Chokes To Death On Dinner
Posted in ChokingThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fined The Crossings, a New York nursing home $13,300 for failing to provide emergency medical treatment to a choking resident. The fine involves an October 15, 2007 incident where an 89-year-old woman was left unattended by a nurse as she ate her dinner. The nurse returned… Continue Reading