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Nursing Home Director Named in Two Wrongful Death Lawsuits
The former medical director of a nursing home at the center of the “Angel of Death” criminal probe has been added as a defendant to a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman whose death is under investigation. The…
Nurses Assistant Allows Paralyzed Man to Fall From His Bed
A former nursing assistant (CNA) was charged Monday in connection with the abuse of a patient at the nursing home where he was employed. The former CNA was charged with one count of reckless abuse of an adult. The investigation…
Police Investigation Leads to Arrest of Nursing Home Employee
After a Police investigation at John M. Reed Nursing Home in Washington County, Virginia, it was determined that an employee may have been physically and emotionally abusing one or more residents at the facility. Amanda Tibble, 34, a certified nurses…
Nursing Home Man’s Paralyzing Fall and Subsequent Bedsores Lead to His Death
Family members of one nursing home resident alleged that the mans two different nursing homes acted negligently when they failed to provide adequate health care for the 87-year-old man, who died in November 2005 of a blood infection. The man…
79-Year-Old Woman Earns Her Law Degree to Practice Elder Abuse Law
One woman had the determination to enroll in law school at an uncommonly old age. She persevered as her longtime companion battled and eventually succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease, and as she was put on academic probation before finally graduating from…
Over-Medication Hospitalizes Three Alzheimers Patients in Nursing Home
State officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation of a nursing home where Alzheimer’s patients tested positive for high amounts of pain-control drugs that they weren’t prescribed. The State Bureau of Investigation and the Medicaid Investigations Unit of the Attorney…