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I-TEAM: Nursing home staff want to learn how to investigate elderly abuse like law enforcement
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.
Warren nursing home worker charged with abusing 91-year-old woman
Ronald Fletcher taken into custody
Priya Mann, Reporter
Derick Hutchinson, Senior Web Producer
WARREN, Mich. – A Warren nursing home worker has been charged with abusing a 91-year-old woman.
Security cameras were rolling at the Advantage Living Center on 12 Mile Road near Hoover Road as the worker manhandled the 91-year-old resident, according to authorities.
“She’s being muscled, pushed around in her wheelchair,” Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith said. “She tries to move, but can’t move.”
The abuse didn’t stop there, police said. Ronald Fletcher, 64, was also recorded holding the 91-year-old victim by the back of her neck, forcing her face down repeatedly, officials said.
Charlotte-area nursing homes flagged for past abuse and neglect
The federal government is now using a new alert system to warn people about nursing homes with histories of past abuse and neglect.
Author: Nathan Morabito
Published: 7:33 PM EST February 11, 2020
Updated: 7:33 PM EST February 11, 2020
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has flagged more than 50 nursing homes in the Carolinas, including several in the Charlotte-area, in recent months for past abuse and neglect. The allegations range from sexual abuse to a maggot infestation inside a resident’s wound, according to federal inspection records.
From now on, when you use the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ online Nursing Home Compare tool, you’ll find a new icon next to nursing homes with a history of abuse or neglect. The warning, a red circle with a hand inside, is part of an effort by the federal government to better alert the public before a loved one is placed in a nursing home.
Suspect nursing home neglect? | Jacksonville attorney lays out red flags to watch out for
“As a society, I think we have an obligation to protect our elders and our young people who can’t protect themselves,” Jacksonville attorney Fred Abbott said.
Author: First Coast News Staff
Published: 5:23 PM EST January 24, 2020
Updated: 6:33 PM EST January 24, 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla — The On Your Side team spoke with a Jacksonville attorney specializing in malpractice Friday, to find out what you need to know to spot neglect in a nursing home setting.
First Coast News first brought you the story of Frank Wright, 86, and the allegations his daughter Vivian Wright included in a notice of intent to sue Heartland of Orange Park.
I-TEAM: Nursing home abuse and neglect allegations filed as ‘information only’ reports
By Liz Owens |
Posted: Mon 5:10 PM, Jan 13, 2020 |
Updated: Mon 7:45 PM, Jan 13, 2020
Monday, Jan. 13, 2020
News 12 at 6 O’Clock/NBC at 7
AUGUSTA, GA (WRDW/WAGT) – Reports of nursing home staff slapping patients, calling them names, and leaving them in their own filth all day.
More often than not, the reports made to law enforcement are taken only for the record. Patients are left relying on the facility itself to report claims of abuse and neglect to state and federal agencies.
We compared police reports at one local nursing home with federal reports over the same 12-month period. What we uncovered is reports going to law enforcement are often for information only.
Elderly abuse trial to begin in Jones Co. for 2 nursing home assistants
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.
Concerned daughter captures elderly mother’s nursing home abuse on hidden camera in N.C.
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.
How to choose a nursing home for someone you love
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.
Nursing Home Allowed Parolee to Enter Building and Sexually Abuse Resident: Lawsuit
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.
Charleston man charged with abusing 86-year-old man in nursing home
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.