Nursing Home Abuse News and Updates
1/10/09
Compiled by Bee Becker
Spokesperson for SafetyForum Nursing Home Abuse Action Group (NHAAG)

SC - Missing elderly woman drowns

PA - Woman who beat Alzheimer's patient fails to show in court

CA - Senior home employee cashed in at women's expense, suit alleges

VA - Elliot Sentenced for Rape

NC - Maximum penalty sought in nursing home fall

NC - Nursing home director lied to us about investigation

IA - Friendship Haven pays federal penalty
$260 fine related to falls

AL - Federal government alleges deadly deficiencies at state veterans home in Bay Minette

TX - Police search for missing elderly man

AL - Woman sought in thefts of patches

NY - County fined over nun's death

PA - Man's Death In Frigid Boarding House Under Investigation
Part Of Building Used To Be Assisted-Living Facility

MD - Assisted living home working on six-point correction plan
‘Individuals remain at risk,' state regulators say

PA - Pa. care home shut down over assault

FL - Ill Wife Who Was Flown to Illinois...Passes Away

OH - Former Nurse Sentenced For Stealing Drugs From Elderly

HI - Nursing home patient evicted, left at hospital Florence Ko, 81, says staff wheeled her out without explanation

NY - Niskayuna nursing home cited for medical errors

NH - Nurse Charged With Stealing Pain Pills From Nursing Home Residents

FL - Two missing Miami-Dade men are found safe

MD - MS Patient To Stay At Nursing Home
Woman Had Been Threatened With Eviction

IL - State Owes Area Health Care Providers Millions

CA - SEIU plans to form new union of health-care workers

TN - Nursing Home Will Close In 30 Days

FL - Man Reported Missing From Assisted Living Facility In Tampa

PA - Creditors ask judge to sell Covenant at South Hills Bank says senior living center's debts top $48 million

OR - Sunwest's chief executive files for bankruptcy protection

MO - East St. Louis woman charged with voter registration fraud

TX - Fire breaks out at Houston assisted living facility

MO - Man charged with raping St. Louis-area nursing home resident

TN - Advocat Plans Vigorous Defense Against Class Action Complaint

CT - Judge backs plan to acquire nursing homes