Eight teen girls have been accused of groping and taunting seven residents at the Good Samaritan nursing home in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The woman attended high school together and worked together part-time at the Good Samaritan nursing home. The official criminal complaint states that they laughed together early this year as they spat in [...]

Harold Edwards is accusing the Meadowlawn Health Care Center of Davenport, Iowa of wrongful discharge and being dropped off into an unfurnished apartment with only $30 and four days worth of medications. He is suing the parent company, Petersen Health Care of Illinois. Edwards lived at the center from November 2006 through March 2007.
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The state Health Department of Oklahoma has cited the Whispering Pines Nursing Center in Norman, Oklahoma, for failing to fully investigate abuse allegations and endangering patients’ health by not providing condoms to a sexually active, HIV-positive nursing home resident. These were just two of the 16 deficiencies cited in a 370-page report released last week.
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Developed in the 1970’s as a community project to keep elders in their homes, PACE is now caring for more than 16,000 elderly persons nationwide. PACE which stands for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, provides continuous care and services offering individuals eligible for nursing home care the option of continuing to live in [...]

An innovative new motion sensor robot computer system is in development to keep seniors living in their homes longer. The new technology will involve robots scooting from room to room to wake homeowners in the morning, remind them to eat and send for help if someone falls. Also, sensors embedded throughout seniors’ homes will detect [...]

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” [...]