Posts tagged Nursing Home Elder Abuse and Neglect

• Nursing Home Neglect: Medicare Patients Not Receiving Quality Care

  Randy Walton | October 17, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A UCLA study has revealed that vulnerable elderly patients receive only 65 percent of the tests and other diagnostic evaluations and treatments for a number of conditions, including heart disease and diabetes.The research was gathered from 100,258 community-dwelling geriatric residents in 19 California counties. All the patients studied were enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, and all a mean...

• Bill To Require DHS To Timely Investigate Claims

  Scott Barber | October 02, 2007 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A bill which would require the California Department of Health Services (DHS) to investigate the majority of all claims of elder abuse in nursing homes within 40 days, has made it to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill was sponsored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) and passed the Legislature last month. An article in the Los Angles Times referred to a number of occasions...

• Want to be Profitable? Go Private, Cut Nursing

  Randy Walton | October 01, 2007 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The county-owned nursing home Vermilion Manor in Virginia is looking to increase the bottom line. Last year it lost money, and a consultant hired to address the problem has the answer: reduce the number of nurses. According to the News Gazett, the consultant found that the nursing facility provides daily nursing that exceeds the state and national averages, so cutting nursing hours, he...

• Bedrail Entrapment - How To Be Safe

  Randy Walton | September 29, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a major crib recall, reporting that 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs have been recalled after three children became entrapped and suffocated, including a 9-month-old child who died. But bed rail entrapment is a danger not limited to the young. It continues to injure and kill many elder Americans every year.It is estimated that...

• Berea Nursing Home Resident Assaulted

  Shannon Weidemann | September 08, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A man entered a nursing home in Berea, Kentucky and sexually assaulted a 90-year-old resident there. It is unknown how he was able to enter the building or what kind of security measures were in place. The nursing home assault happened early in the morning on Monday. "Basically what happened is that the employees of the nursing home heard a patient scream," Clark said. "When they went to...