Posted on July 14th, 2010
An investigation is underway at a nursing home in Champaign County for the mistreatment of one of the nursing home residents. A local newspaper reports that a nursing home aide tried to move the resident and the resident suffered a cut that needed 24 stitches.
The nursing home aide was suppose to use the assistance of another person before moving a resident in order to avoid injury. Earlier in the year, the nursing home was fined almost $100,000 for health violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
If you or a loved one has suffered from nursing home negligence, contact the New Jersey nursing home abuse lawyers of Levinson Axelrod by calling 800-346-5529.
Posted on July 8th, 2010
A nursing home abuse case has come to an end with a $667 million verdict against multiple nursing homes that are owned by Skilled HealthCare that is based out of California.
The class-action suit represented almost 32,000 residents who were getting negligent care from nursing home that are owned by Skilled HealthCare. The settlement was determined by the amount of hours that the state law requires each resident to receive in care each day. According to records, the nursing homes in this chain were much below this number for over five years.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of nursing home abuse, contact the New jersey nursing home abuse lawyers of Levinson Axelrod, P.A. by calling 800-346-5529.
Posted on June 25th, 2010
Charges have been filed after a nursing home fire in 2008 killed several nursing home residents.
The fire began after a resident began smoking and suddenly became unconscious. The resident was unsupervised during the incident and the cigarette then began a fire that spread throughout the entire facility and killed three of the 120 residents.
Five of the employees at the nursing home are charged with elder abuse. Investigators found that the fire was not caught early because the fire alarms had been turned off and that this was negligence of people who do the upkeep of the building. This error gave the residents no warning of the fire that was spreading around them.
Elder abuse can have devastating effects on everyone involved, our thoughts are with the elderly victims in the accident.
Posted on June 17th, 2010
A nursing home in Sacramento County, California has been ordered by a judge to pay $29.1 million in a lawsuit over nursing home abuse.
The suit stemmed from the death of 79-year-old tenant. The woman had mild dementia and she moved into the nursing home in March 2005. During her stay, the woman allegedly broke her hip in a fall and the injury went undiagnosed. Within days of the incident, the woman died of an infected bed sore.
According to information provided, jurors found the nursing home guilty of elder abuse. The nursing home disputed the charges and the results because they said the decision was based upon emotion and not facts.
Nursing home abuse is a difficult situation for elderly people and their families. Our thoughts are with the friends and family of the victim in the case.
Posted on June 11th, 2010
Officials say that a 44-year-old caregiver has been charged with second-degree murder after allegedly killing an Alzheimer’s patient after a heavy dose of morphine.
The 80-year-old woman was killed in February 2010 and the caregiver was indicted in early June. In addition, the woman is charged with felony abuse for the hospitalization of six patients.
Authorities began to investigate for possible abuse after patients tested positive for morphine. Officials think that morphine may have been given to the patients to make them more manageable.
Nursing home abuse can leave elderly people in a helpless situation, our condolences are with the friends and family of the victim.
Posted on June 4th, 2010
A woman filed a suit against a Caseyville Nursing Home and Rehabilitation center claiming that a man died because of the staff’s failure to treat the man appropriately.
The woman claims that the man was admitted into the nursing home in May 8, 2008, where he developed leg ischemia which is painful condition with non-healing wounds and gangrene. The man also suffered from a urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcers that stem from malnutrition and dehydration.
The man died on May 31, 2008. The woman filing the suit claims that the man’s death was caused from the injuries and that the staff performed many negligent acts.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of negligent nursing home care, contact the New jersey nursing home abuse lawyers of Levinson Axelrod, P.A. by calling 800-346-5529.
Posted on May 28th, 2010
The Illinois Attorney General’s office conducted a sweep this week at the Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois. This is the 11th sweep of a nursing home in the state in the last few months, in an effort to clean up the state’s less than stellar nursing home record.
The nursing home was one wherein both elderly patients and convicted felons are housed, a sadly common state of affairs. Five former sex offenders are housed in the Golden Moments Senior Care center, and the nursing home was targeted for failing to provide risk assessments to the state for three of those five offenders.
Earlier this year, the nursing home was fined $50,000 in connection with the death of a 74-year-old resident who choked on food despite staffers’ knowledge of that possibility given the patient’s history. In 2009, the home was fined $20,000 for failing to keep residents from being mentally, verbally, and physically abused. Staff members were found to be slapping and bullying residents.
Nursing homes with a history of abuse need to be held accountable for their inaction if they do not fix their problems. If you or someone you love has been the victim of elderly abuse, contact the New Jersey nursing home abuse attorneys of Levinson Axelrod at 800-346-5529 as soon as possible.
Posted on May 28th, 2010
A Corlandt, NY, nursing home employee has been arrested for stealing an elderly resident’s debit card and withdrawing over $2,000 from a number of banks around town.
The 26-year-old man, or 5 Redway Road, Ossining, was charged with first-degree identity theft, which is a felony.
The man worked in the laundry and maintenance department of Bethel Nursing Home in Cortlandt. He used the card to withdraw money at banks in Elmsford, Peekskill, and Ossining.
If you or someone you love has been the victim of elderly abuse, contact the New Jersey nursing home abuse attorneys of Levinson Axelrod at 800-346-5529 as soon as possible.
Posted on May 14th, 2010
On May 6, Illinois state lawmakers passed a nursing home reform bill, 118-0, that will increase the number of state checks on nursing homes as well create more strict safety guidelines.
“Far too often, nursing home residents are subjected to violence at the hands of other residents and abuse and neglect at the hands of those entrusted to care for them,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan said.
“It is the state’s obligation to address these failings and ensure that nursing homes provide safe and therapeutic environments for their residents,” she said.
“Nursing home residents and their families depend on the state to ensure that vulnerable adults are treated with care, compassion and dignity,” added Madigan.
The new mandated checks will be unannounced and random.
Elderly abuse is despicable and those who take advangate of their position in nursing homes need to be held to account. If you or someone you love has been the victim of elderly abuse, contact the New Jersey nursing home abuse attorneys of Levinson Axelrod at 800-346-5529 as soon as possible.
Posted on May 14th, 2010
Colonial Healthcare of Auburn, Calif., and its parent company, Horizon West of Rocklin, Calif., were found guilty Wednesday of elder abuse in the 2005 death of a 79-year-old woman. The jury leveled $28 million in punitive damages against the nursing home corporation in a case brought by the woman’s daughter.
According to reports, the woman was admitted to the nursing home with full mobility but mild dementia. She fell and broke her hip, reports say, and seven months later she died from an infected bedsore. Her daughter’s lawyer accused the nursing home of putting corporate gain ahead of good resident care. The nursing home was also accused of being understaffed and keeping poor medical documentation. The company denied the charges of nursing home abuse and argued that the woman was never neglected but had one-on-one care.
