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… Continue Reading
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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
Elder Abuse: Captured On Video At California Facility
Posted in Nursing Home AbuseThe 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… Continue Reading
Video Demonstrates Proper Dressing Changes For Patients With Pressure Ulcers
Posted in Bed Sores, Pressure Sores, Decubitus Ulcers & Pressure UlcersIn 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… Continue Reading
Why Didn’t I Think Of This?
Posted in Neglect, Nursing Home AbuseAs 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… Continue Reading
Caught On Tape: 90-Year-Old Man Beaten By Home Nurse
Posted in Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home StaffThink the term ‘nursing home abuse’ is made up by lawyers? Cameras don’t lie…