A second round of arrests involving four new workers at The Medford Multicare Center for Living, in Medford, New York were charged yesterday with mistreating patients and falsifying records. According to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, one resident of the Medford Multicare Center for Living was not showered for a month; an 84-year-old female [...]

Christine M. Borasky, 22, of Ogdensburg, New York has been convicted of abusing an elderly nursing home patient. She was sentenced to five years’ probation, has been placed on 90 days electronic home monitoring, and has surrendered her state license.
She was accused of pulling the hair and spraying foam into the mouth and eyes of [...]

The state of New York is expanding a program to keep a high-tech eye on some of the state’s most vulnerable residents based on recommendations of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Recently, an actual video of patient abuse, taken by a hidden camera, showed a nursing home worker slapping a patient. Cuomo used those pictures to [...]

In a little-publicized line-item veto last month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated state funding for California’s long-term care ombudsman program. The $3.8 million cut represents half the funding for ombudsman services, which is a program that investigates elder abuse and other complaints on behalf of 250,000 residents of California’s 1,300 nursing homes and more than 8,000 [...]

According to a recent report, more than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, and for-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes. About 17 percent of nursing homes had deficiencies that caused “actual harm or immediate jeopardy” [...]

A former employee of a Calabasas, California assisted-living facility, specializing in caring for Alzheimer’s and other memory-impaired patients, was charged on October 6th with torture and multiple counts of elder abuse. The charge stems from the death of an 80-year-old resident last year and the alleged abuse of other residents.
Cesar Ulloa, 20, is scheduled to [...]