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Nursing Home Residents Lacking Food, Water, Shelter, and Medicines in Haiti
Earthquake survivors have brought food and some medicine to dying residents in the rubble of a Haiti nursing home, but large-scale foreign aid has yet to reach dozens of nursing homes. Several elderly residents are very near death as they…
One State Pushes Elder Abuse Legislation Forward
A representative from one state said efforts are under way that could help improve elder abuse reporting as well as make stiffer laws for those who take advantage of the state’s senior population. Legislation has been introduced that would establish…
Nursing Home Pleads Guilty to Medicare/Medicaid fraud for Failing to Care for Residents
A 73 year old former nursing home resident said she could walk and talk when she entered the nursing home where she was a resident for just 11 months. By the time her family pulled her out she was strapped…
Elderly Resident Found Laying Outside of His Nursing Home
A 93-year-old nursing home resident who was found outdoors on a frigid night earlier this week is the subject of a police investigation, officials said Wednesday. According to the nursing home’s administrator, the resident is in stable condition at the…
Nursing Home Resident Allegedly Kidnapped by Family Member
According to Police, at approximately 5:30 Wednesday night, officers responded to a call from a man who claimed his 85-year-old mother had been kidnapped from her nursing home. When officers arrived, he explained that nursing home employees had notified him that…
Former Employees Protest Over Unsafe Nursing Home Conditions
Three former employees of one nursing home say they were working to renovate a portion of the building when they stumbled upon serious mold. They are now claiming that when they tried to alert management, but they were fired for…