Recognizing the significant threat that ‘falls’ pose to patients in nursing homes, federal regulations impose a duty on facilities to assess each patient at the time they are admitted (and similarly reassess on a regular basis) to determine the likelihood of the patient is at risk falling and then create a plan of care for… Continue Reading
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Criminal Charges Brought Against Nursing Home Workers Who Allowed Resident To Freeze To Death
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's Patients, Elopement & WanderingCriminal charges have been brought against three nursing home workers on duty the night an Alzheimer’s patient wandered from Texas nursing home to his death. The three were employed in various capacities at a facility known as Tumbleweed Nursing Home on the evening of February 3rd of this year. Surveillance video from the nursing home… Continue Reading
Caregivers Must Exercise Patience When It Comes To Caring For Alzheimer’s Paitents
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's PatientsNursing aide to be charged with injury: kxan.com Frustration is likely to blame for an episode of elder abuse at a Texas nursing home where a CNA attacked an Alzheimer’s patient she was trying to get dressed. Staff members at Wesleyan Nursing Home, notified nursing home administrators when they saw the CNA grab the patient… Continue Reading
As More Sex Offenders Make Their Way Into Nursing Homes, Are Facilities Exposing Themselves To Increased Liability?
Posted in Sexual Abuse & AssaultAs if nursing home patients and their families didn’t have enough to worry about with respect to receiving proper medical care, many patients may be shocked to learn that they are living amongst registered sex offenders. While the component of sex offenders in nursing homes is nothing new, the fact remains that as a generation… Continue Reading
Hidden Camera Catches Nursing Home Worker Abusing Paralyzed Stroke Patient
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseFirst-degree felony abuse charges have been filed against a nurses aide at Castle Pines Retirement Home in Lufkin, TX. The aide identified as Johnetta Dashaw Phillips, was responsible for caring for a patient who was left paralyzed from a stroke and suffers from dementia. Despite earlier complaints of abuse by the patient’s husband to administrators… Continue Reading
Family Claims Nursing Home Failed To Protect Elderly Woman For Brutal Assault At Hands Of Intruder
Posted in LitigationA nursing home negligence lawsuit has been filed against Brookdale Senior Living Center for failing to protect its patients. Janice Maier’s family brought the lawsuit against Brookdale after she was physically abused by an intruder to the Texas nursing home. A police investigation concluded that 25-year-old Daniel Villarreal pushed the back door of the… Continue Reading
Alzheimer’s Patient Wanders From Texas Nursing Home To Her Death
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's Patients, Elopement & WanderingAuthorities are now looking into how 85-year-old, Edna May Sides, managed to wander from Hillside Plaza Nursing Home without the knowledge of nursing home staff. On July 15th, Sides dead body was found a short distance from the facility. Initially, the nursing home told the family that Sides passed from ‘natural causes’. However,… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Manager Accused Of Stealing From Resident
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseAdelita Rosas, a manager at an Austin nursing home stands accused of stealing more than $2,000 from an elderly resident at Maggie Johnson Nursing Home. Rosas admittedly endorsed and cashed a check made payable to a resident and then gave the funds to the resident’s family, yet she claims the situation is an innocent misunderstanding. … Continue Reading
Nursing Home Abuse: Texas Nursing Home Worker Caught Punching Resident
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseCan someone please let me know what drives a person to physically abuse a defenseless elder? Is it empowering? Is it done out of frustration? Does it just feel good? Out of Texas, Lufkin Police have arrested a certified nurses aide (CNA) in connection with an episode of abuse witnessed by co-workers. The incident took… Continue Reading
Nursing Homes Not Prepared To Care For Obese Residents
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesThe Brownsville Herald had an article on nursing homes inability to care an increasingly large portion of the nursing home population– the morbidly obese. Under-staffing is particularly problematic for large nursing home residents. Obese nursing home residents require special equipment and additional staffing in order for their needs to be met. Read more about the… Continue Reading
Jury Awards $2.1 Million To Family Of Dead Nurisng Home Resident
Posted in LitigationA Texas jury found CLC Richland Hills nursing home and its medical director responsible for the death of a 79-year old woman. The woman entered the facility for rehabilitation following a fall. During the course of her stay, she developed a urinary tract infection which went untreated by the nursing home staff. Not only did… Continue Reading