A former nursing home administrator accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from residents in her care remained in county jail. The charges allege she stole about $100,000 from a total of 18 victims and according to a police detective, the loss of patient funds was discovered through an internal audit. The administrator was arrested last week at her home on a warrant that had been issued by a judge and is charged with 12 felony counts of financial exploitation of an elderly person, thef…

An administrator of a nursing home where a woman was sexually abused by another resident, who is a sex offender, is now facing licensing sanctions and is guilty of professional incompetence. The nursing home board states that the administrator should have known that the offender posed a threat to other residents of the home. Reports indicate several employees of the home told investigators the administrator warned them not to tell anyone sex offenders were living in the home or they would be fir…

Power of Attorney (POA) is seeking compensatory and punitive damages from a nursing home that he alleges caused injuries to a resident of the defendants’ nursing facility. The POA claims the defendants are responsible and failed to provide the necessary amount of fluid to the resident so as to prevent dehydration and they also failed to implement a plan of care. He alleges, the nursing facility failed to provide the resident with the necessary catheter and personal care to reduce her risk for in…

The Department of Health Care and Rehab, has fined a nursing home twelve thousand dollars after an incident was discovered by the Department of Health (DOH) during an earlier inspection. The violations involved a medication error that caused the hospitalization of a patient. The patient involved in the incident had been admitted to the nursing home for short term rehabilitation.

A nursing home is closed after an investigation was launched when patients’ relatives complained about neglect of their family members. The decision to shut down the facility comes after an undercover investigation revealed evidence of patient neglect and multiple health department inspections found repeated patterns of substandard care at the 100-bed facility. With the permission of patients’ families, agents installed hidden surveillance cameras in several rooms and recorded instances where st…

Several employees of a long-term care facility have been suspended and investigations have been launched after the son of a patient released hidden camera video of his 85-year-old mother being mistreated and neglected. He installed a motion activated hidden camera following several incidents that he thought were suspicious. He captured video of a staff member tormenting his mother with a rag smeared with her own feces, a man blowing his nose on her clean bed sheets, an elderly male resident help…