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The Early Autumns Residential Care Facility in Stillwater, Oklahoma, was cited by the Oklahoma Department of Health as a result of the death of an 82 year old resident who was found face-down in a creek about 25 feet behind the facility.
The Owner and administrator of Early Autumns Residential Care Facility misrepresented herself and her facility by promising the family that the staff would provide 24 hour supervision and nursing care. The family decided to place their father at Early Autumns based on what they were told. As it turns out, the facility did not have a nurse on staff.
Early Autumns should not have accepted the resident because he needed a higher level of care than Early Autumns provided. Assisted living facilities do not provide nursing care.
This is not the first incident of inadequate resident care and supervision at Early Autumns. A similar incident occurred in April 2007.
The Department of Health is considering penalties against the facility.
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The Good Samaritan Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Avon, Ohio, is being held accountable by the family of a 87 year old dementia patient who was killed when she was allowed to wander away from the nursing home.
The nursing home was told by the family that their mother had the tendency to wander and the family wanted to keep her safe. The nursing home agreed to accept the dementia resident and admitted her into their secured ward.
Wandering is a well recognized pattern for those with demetia. Nursing homes who accept dementia residents promise to keep these residents safe by maintaiing a secure environment and supervising the residents.
The resident was able to somehow disable an alarm on a sliding glass door in her room and walk up a long driveway leading from the nursing home without being noticed. She was spotted by a passersby lying beside the road about 100 feet from the nursing home's driveway. She died from her injuries the next day.
The family is filing a lawsuit against the nursing home to hold it accountable for their mother's death.
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Prosecutors are seeking a felony charges against a nursing aide working at The Arbor of Itasca Nursing Home in Itasca, Illinois, for criminal neglect and obstructing justice. The nursing aide did not investigate when a door alarm sounded because she was watching television. An 89 year old resident with dementia triggering the alarm when she wandered outside into a courtyard area. She was found dead after being outside in frigid temperatures for 90 minutes or longer.
As many as four nursing home workers tried to cover up the resident's cause of death and made it look like she died while in bed. The nursing staff returned the resident's body to her bed and changed her clothes.
The resident's family filed a lawsuit to hold the nursing home accountable.
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The Laurel Canyon nursing home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was convicted by a jury for the death of a 76 year old resident. The nursing home was charged with abuse and neglect of the resident and not employing enough staff care for its' residents.
"Nursing home are paid to provide around-the-clock care to those who cannot care for themselves," said Elizabeth Staley, director of the New Mexico attorney general's Elder Abuse and Medicaid Fraud Division. "Protecting this population is of paramount importance to the New Mexico attorney general, and similar violations will be prosecuted vigorously," she said.
The nursing home staff left the resident - who was recovering from a broken hip - on a bedpan for 24 hours on Christmas Day. The bedpan left an open wound in the shape of the rim. The wound became infected and the resident died 5 days later.
The nursing home will be sentenced next month.
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A CNA working at a nuring home in Sudbury, Massachusetts, Sudbury Pines Extended Care, was arrested for sexually molesting a 62 year old resident. The woman was recovering from a stroke and had limited ability to speak.
The CNA closed the bedroom door almost all the way and rubbed the resident’s breast. He then grabbed her arms and held them down when he touched her genitals area.
Later, another staff member noticed the victim was agitated when the CNA approached her and also noticed that she tried to get away from the CNA. The resident was able to answer questions saying "yes" and "no." She pointed to her body parts and indicated that it was the CNA who assaulted her.
Nursing Homes must conduct background checks of all new employees and must closely supervise the staff. Nursing Homes may be held accountable when they choose to hire staff with criminal backgrounds or decide to not closely monitor the staff.
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The Rhode Island Veterans Nursing Home in Bristol, Rhode Island is being investigated by the Rhode Island House Committee on Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Nursing Home was found by a House panel to have bitterness and anger between management and staff, poor communication with patients' families as well as building problems.
The Veterans Nursing Home is alleged to have ordered the performance of three surgeries for a World War II Veteran without his consent or the consent of his legal guardian. The surgeries were inconclusive. The nursing home changed the Veteran's legal status without notifying his family even though the Veteran was incompetent to made medical or financial decisions. It is also alleged that a nursing home doctor then pressured the legal guardian to approve a fourth surgery.
A staff member of the nursing home threatened to call the State Police to remove the Veteran's grandaughter from the nursing home because she was taking photographs of unexplained bruises on her grandafther's arm.
The family was pushing to have the Veteran moved to another nursing home when he passed away.
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Son Claims Dad Died Of Thirst In Nursing Home
The son of a man who died in a Stillwater, Minnesota, nursing home is suing the facility and claiming that his father died of thirst.
The state Department of Health investigated the January 2007 death of Dean Cole and found the Golden LivingCenter-Greeley home to be "in neglect.'' The lawsuit contends that staff at the facility observed Cole's rapid weight loss after he was admitted to the center about a month before his death, but did not notify doctors.
Kevin Cole is suing Golden LivingCenter in federal court.
Sharon Thole is executive director of Golden LivingCenter-Greeley. She says that the company is reviewing the allegations.
By Associated Press
KVLY-TV
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Man charged with raping St. Louis-area nursing home resident
According to the Belleville News-Democrat newspaper, a former employee at a Normandy area nursing home was arrested and charged earlier this week for raping a resident of the nursing home.
Lt. Frank Minnini of the Normandy Police Department said the incident took place December 21 at the Normandy Nursing Center, located in the 7300 block of St. Charles Rock Road.
Police arrested Antonio McCoy on Wednesday, January 7, and charged him the following day. He's being held in the St. Louis County Jail on $200,000 cash only bond, Minnini said.
McCoy had worked at the nursing home for nearly a year and a half and passed a background check, according to Kerry Kaufmann, the administrator of the home.
The victim, a 36-year-old woman, suffered from cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder. Police allege McCoy attacked the woman in a stairwell and raped her.
A spokesperson for the nursing home said they would not comment on the story until Monday.
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Maximum penalty sought in nursing home fall
A North Carolina nursing home could face $50,000 in fines after a resident with Alzheimer's disease fell from a loading dock and died.
The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday that state health officials have recommended the maximum penalty for Five Oaks Manor in Concord for failing to protect 87-year-old Annie Bell Scarboro.
Officials said Scarboro went unnoticed as she wandered through several doors, a kitchen and onto an unlit loading dock Dec. 18. She fell about four feet.
The state Department of Health and Human Services suggests the nursing home be fined $10,000 a day for the five days between Scarboro's fall and when repairs were completed. Repairs included an alarm system and fence around the dock.
A final decision will come from the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Information from: The Charlotte Observer
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Claiming it made "work fun," four young nursing home aides abused 15 dementia residents by hitting their breasts and genitals, sticking fingers in their mouths or noses to keep them from screaming, and taunting them, according to a Minnesota state investigation made public last week.
The four unidentified women—one adult and three juveniles—who were working at Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Albert Lea, Minn., were fired in May upon discovery of the abuse. The details of the case were revealed after family members had been recently informed of the abuse, which apparently occurred for several months, officials said.
According to the report, one aide spat in a resident's mouth, sexually "humped" some residents, and sat with bare buttocks on the lap of a woman resident who was in a wheelchair.
One aide who witnessed the abuse said that three of the aides would grope one man's genitals to "get a rouse out of him, as in sexual teasing." Another said that all four aides talked of hitting residents’ "boobs or crotch, or rub it around" to make the residents angry. All four aides would hold down residents who resisted care and put a hand over the residents' mouths to muffle their cries.
The nursing home was not at fault and followed correct procedures once the allegations were reported, the Health Department found.
Three of the residents have since died, and the others could not be interviewed by investigators because they all have diseases that affect cognition.
Freeborn County Attorney Craig Nelson said that he will decide by late September whether to bring criminal charges. He said "the standard of proof is higher for criminal charges than for the Health Department's findings. There is no real physical evidence, so it will depend on what people saw and might testify to."
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