Dec 10, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect, Nursing Homes
December 10, 2019 at 2:10 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An investigation at St. Johns on Fountain Lake nursing home in Albert Lea has revealed alleged verbal abuse of a patient, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
Management at the facility was notified that a caregiver reportedly taunted a resident with “disparaging, derogatory and humiliating” language — and tapped the resident’s face face “in a slapping-type motion.”
The resident involved was admitted with a diagnosis of stroke, loss of ability to understand or express speech, left-sided muscle weakness or partial paralysis, diabetes, major depression disorder and generalized anxiety. The victim does not have any memory of the incident, documents say.
Dec 5, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
Updated 4:56 PM;Today 6:00 AM
By James T. Mulder | jmulder@syracuse.com
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Syracuse nursing home employee slapped a 90-year-old resident in the face with a wet cloth, bruising the elderly woman, according to police.
Syracuse police arrested a certified nurse aide Nov. 25 after conducting a lengthy investigation of the incident that occurred Oct. 19 at Bishop Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at 918 James St.
Cania Williams, 29, of Syracuse, was charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor, and harassment in the second degree, a violation. The injuries were not severe enough to charge Williams with assault, said Officer Joe Commisso, a department spokesman.
Nov 29, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
Federal website flags homes charged with neglect
ANDY MILLER | Georgia Health News | Updated: Nov. 29, 2019, 8:52 p.m.
Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.
That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.
The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5 percent of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nov 25, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By Alex Spanko | November 25, 2019
The long-term and post-acute care industry’s reaction to a new federal abuse warning icon for nursing homes was swift and negative when the plan was first announced last month — and now another voice has entered the fray to claim that the icons may actually do more harm than good.
Leaders from AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, late last week characterized the icon as a misguided approach toward improving nursing home safety.
“We truly believe that this approach will have unintended consequences, and in fact be counterproductive to achieving the high-quality patient outcomes for which we strive,” AMDA president Arif Nazir and executive director Christopher Laxton wrote in a Friday letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma. “It will also be clearly detrimental to the motivation and engagement of thousands of very hard-working front-line staff members.”
Nov 25, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
ANDY MILLER, GEORGIA HEALTH NEWS
NOV 25, 2019
Nursing home abuse citations, issued by state agencies after they have investigated complaints, remain rare, The Wall Street Journal reported. But the Government Accountability Office, a federal fact-finding agency, said in a June report that violations of federal standards more than doubled between 2013 and 2017 to 875.
Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.
That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.
The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5% of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to The Wall Street Journal.
