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Nursing Home Rape Victim Receives Justice 17 Years Later

A nursing home rape victim will finally receive justice after 17 years of waiting. An incident that occurred in 2000 has remained an open case while detectives waited for a DNA match. “This was not going to be a case where the victim was going to be able to assist us in any way.

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Nursing Home Whistleblowers To Receive Settlement Payments

Whistleblowers who brought forth allegations in a lawsuit are all due about $10 million each as part of a settlement for fraud. A nursing home company was accused and found guilty of getting its employees to falsify records in order to document patients as other than terminal. Patients with terminal illnesses were not eligible for certain types of care that would provide reimbursements to the nursing home company. The nursing home company acquired funding by billing for services that could …

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Nursing Home Patient Allowed To Die After Failure to Resuscitate

The family of a nursing home patient has filed a lawsuit citing the nursing home's failure to resuscitate a patient. According to video footage, the patient was not offered CPR despite the entrance and exit of three caregivers at the home. For 30 minutes, the patient was not offered any assistance.

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Nursing Home Neglect Decision Overturned

A nursing home neglect case decision has been overturned by the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff stating that there is cause for proof that neglect did occur with a patient at the nursing home. The family of the patient stated that the patient was allowed to develop a UTI infection and that it went untreated. The patient died as a result. The defendants attempted to prove that the patient died from sepsis rather than incapacity.

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Nursing Home Allows Maggots To Infest Patient's Face

A nursing home patient has died after developing infected wounds in his face. The patient was sent to the hospital with facial wounds that had 50 or so maggots in them. The hospital was shocked and sent a complaint to authorities questioning the patient's treatment at the nursing home. An investigation determined that the nursing home failed to 'meet expected outcomes' in treating the patient's skin.

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Nursing Home Under Investigation For Profit In Spite of Poor Care Provided

A nursing home under fire for poor quality care to its patients has turned a profit of more than $1 million. The nursing home was under financial duress until new owners took over the facility. The nursing home had 70 percent of its patients covered by Medicare and Medicaid payments.The home only has a 1 star rating, making its profit a concern and question to the attorney general's office currently prosecuting it.

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