Jan 7, 2020 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
JONES COUNTY, Ga. — Two nursing assistants at a Jones County nursing home who were arrested for abusing the elderly are set to begin trial this week.
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday at the Jones County Superior Court for Vonshell Napier and Beverly Burney Jackson.
According to the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, Napier was charged with two counts of causing physical pain to an elder person and two more counts of mental abuse to an elder person and Jackson was charged with one count of causing physical pain to an elder person.
Jan 6, 2020 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
Gaston County DA won’t press charges against abusers
By Nick Ochsner | January 6, 2020 at 11:28 AM CST – Updated January 6 at 6:32 PM
CHERRYVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) – Late this past summer, Renee Herwin had suspicions about the care her 86-year-old mother, Skip MacNally, was getting at the Peak Resources nursing home in Cherryville, N.C. So, she decided to install a hidden camera to find out.
Herwin bought a picture frame with a tiny camera hidden at the bottom. She put it on a counter top in her mom’s room. She had disturbing video of staff at the nursing home abusing her mother almost immediately.
“I put the camera in on August 28. On August 29 I had a video of abuse,” she said. She had a second video within 24 hours of installing the camera.
Jan 2, 2020 | Nursing Homes
Published: Jan 2, 2020 11:25 a.m. ET
CMS’s Nursing Home Compare tool now offers information on facilities cited for abuse or neglect — but the decision requires more legwork, experts say
If you’re looking for a safe nursing home for your loved one, the federal government’s new comparison tool is helpful starting point, but long-term care experts advise digging a bit deeper.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in October introduced an eye-catching alert icon on their online Nursing Home Compare tool to signal that a particular facility had recently been cited for abuse or neglect. Before the icon’s debut, consumers could learn about a nursing home’s history of abuse by looking through its health-inspection reports, which are also available on Nursing Home Compare.
Dec 31, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By Artie Ojeda • Published December 31, 2019 • Updated at 6:10 am on January 2, 2020
A $50 million lawsuit has been filed against a Hillcrest nursing facility after an 88-year-old resident said she was sexually assaulted in the fall of 2019.
At around 3 a.m. on Oct. 27, Lusean Arline allegedly entered the facility owned by Balboa Healthcare, Inc. unobserved and assaulted a woman on the second floor, according to the victim’s attorney. Arline, 48, was a recently released parolee at the time.
A preliminary hearing was held on Dec. 16, 2019, where “Louise,” the roommate of the victim, told the court she saw a man in their room and then lay naked on top of the victim.
Dec 19, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By WSAZ News Staff | Posted: Thu 4:23 PM, Dec 19, 2019 | Updated: Thu 4:31 PM, Dec 19, 2019
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A man from Charleston faces charges in connection with the alleged abuse of an 86-year-old man in a nursing home.
Michael Hancock, 48, of Charleston, is charged with being a caregiver of an incapacitated adult who intentionally and maliciously abuses or neglects an incapacitated adult and caused the incapacitated adult bodily injury. That’s according to a Kanawha County criminal complaint.
The complaint states that the victim, a resident at a nursing home in Marmet, suffered injuries to his hands. The incident allegedly happened in late November.
