A total of 9 nursing home employees have been arrested and seven of them related to the death of a nursing home resident. The charges include allowing the resident’s alarm to ring for two hours when she stopped breathing, embezzling Medicare funds, and numerous counts of neglect.
A whistleblower turned in the employees after feeling the need to expose what had happened to the 72-year-old resident whose family was told she died of a heart attack. An investigation took place after officials were alerted to the incident. For more, read the story.
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Robert W. Carter, Jr. is a Virginia attorney whose law practice is dedicated to protecting the rights of the victims of nursing home and assisted living neglect and abuse in Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Danville, Charlottesville, and across Virginia.
