Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020
News 12 at 6 O’Clock/NBC at 7
AUGUSTA, GA (WRDW/WAGT) — Nursing home staff are legally responsible for investigating claims of abuse and neglect.
However, they’re not trained law enforcement officers and the federal government found nationwide many abuse and neglect claims are not investigated inside nursing homes.
Sixty local nursing home employees so far want help to learn how to spot and investigate neglect in their facility.
The I-Team has spent the last 10 months exposing allegations of neglect and abuse inside area nursing homes and a system which allows it to go unnoticed.