Nursing Home Abuse News and Updates
8/17/08 - 8/29/08
Compiled by Bee Becker
Spokesperson for SafetyForum Nursing Home Abuse Action Group (NHAAG)

OH - State probes abuse charges at Findlay nursing home

CA - Man charged with murder in nursing home fire

MN - State report alleges abuse at Good Samaritan nursing home
Teenage girls said to perform lurid acts on the elderly

RI - Judge rules against jailed nursing home owner

WA - Nursing home sued over death
Patient's family says facility's lack of staffing, care failed their daughter

MN - Staff accused of abuse at Albert Lea nursing home

UT - Man gets up to 15 years in sex abuse case

OH - Nursing assistant gets four years in prison for elderly patient's death

CT - Manager altered patient’s record, state charges

MT - Family sues nursing home over death

NY - Falls nursing home worker charged in sex attack on 89-year-old patient

IL - Nursing home resident sues over gangrene

DE - Police: Man put pillow over patient's face to quiet him

TX - Nursing home patient who may have been abused died before case could go to grand jury

CA - Nursing home fined $100,000
PATIENT'S DEATH: It's the state's most severe citation. It comes after workers failed to follow up on a woman's injury

WI/MO - Former priest sentenced for decades-old Wis. abuse

IA - Woman allegedly steals $8K in medication
Faces charges of theft, tampering, prohibited acts

NY - Endicott nursing home fined $76,050
Absolut facility cited for 23 deficiencies

PA - Missing New Stanton assisted living resident found safe

NY - State cites 2 nursing homes in Rome

OH - Inspection finds 30 violations at nursing home in Beacon

OR - Nurse's aide held in pain-patch thefts in Portland area

NY - Two Rochester nursing homes fined for poor care

CT - Two Rochester nursing homes fined for poor care

RI - Murderer working in nursing home

MS - 3 accused in crimes against a nursing home resident

Eight Indiana Health Care Facilities Receive National Recognition

TX - Woman pleads guilty to injury to elderly individual indictments

TN - State medical boards discipline Dyersburg pharmacy tech, nurse

CA - Brea Nursing Home Co. Settles For $2M In Suit

NY - 2 arrested on fraud charges

NJ - Barnegat psychologist settles accusation of $400,000 fraud

PA - Carlyle-ManorCare Facing New Federal Charges for Breaking the Law: Interrogating, Threatening, Retaliating Against Nursing Home Workers for Trying to Form a Union

VT - Nursing assistant sentenced in narcotics case

NY - Montrose veterans nursing home fined for poor care

PA - Nursing home’s license downgraded

KS - Small Kansas Nursing Home Loses License

SC - Tucker Story Generates Many Reader Responses

NY - Deplorable conditions plague worst-run adult homes

Sprinklers Now a Must for Nursing Homes