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- Nursing Home Fails to Seek Emergency Care For Resident
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Click to Learn About a Scam Nursing Home Residents Must Watch Out For!
The majority of nursing home residents are vulnerable to abuse due to either their weakened physical or mental health. The abuse can manifest itself in various forms: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and now...financial abuse.Sexual Abuse Not Uncommon Within Nursing Homes
A rash of sexual abuse within nursing homes has been sweeping the country. One only has to read the extensive blogs, news articles, and first hand accounts to see that the number of cases is rising. According to expert research, sexual abuse accounts for about 2% of nursing home abuse cases. Unfortunately, only about half of all instances of sexual abuse within a nursing home come to light; in many cases, nursing home officials either brush aside allegations of abuse or try to cover-up evidence of the abuse to avoid legal sanctions.State and Federal Legal Action Taken Against Western New York Nursing Homes
Four Western New York nursing homes, Fairport Baptist Homes, The Brightonian, Park Ridge Nursing Home and Wayne Health Care, have been punished with Federal and State civil and/or criminal sanctions in the past 6 months.Nursing Homes Using Tax Dollars to Restrain Residents
"Chemical restraint" is when a person is force-fed powerful psychotropic drugs to control their behavior. They are only legal for a nursing home to use if they are needed to keep a resident from harming himself or others. Overdosage of these drugs can result in death or severe neurological damage. Research has shown that up to 15,000 nursing home patients die each year from the improper use of these drugs. Tax-payers foot the bill for these drugs in most cases.Nursing Home Fails to Seek Emergency Care For Resident
A lawsuit was recently filed against the Sunrise Assisted Living Facility, a nursing home in Rochester, New York for the 2007 death of resident, Donald R. Salli. The suit alleges that the nursing home was negligent in both failing to adequately supervise its residents, and for failing to provide Mr. Salli with necessary medical treatment after he was attacked.Dumping and Transfer Trauma: Wrongful Discharge Abuse on the Rise
The number of nursing home complaints for wrongfully discharging patients in these ways has doubled over the past ten years. Dumping and Transfer Trauma are two types of nursing home abuse that, although often overlooked, are quickly becoming an epidemic. Dumping and Transfer Trauma are similar in that they are two types of abuse that stem from wrongfully discharging a nursing home resident that is in desperate need of care.New Report Confirms Inadequate Staffing Leads to Nursing Home Abuse
Understaffing may be the number one cause of negligence within nursing homesNursing Home Abuse Caught on Camera in North Troy!
Fourteen workers at Troy nursing home charged with endangering the welfare of elderly residents and felony falsification of nursing home recordsNew Law requires disclosure about nurse to patient ratios
What is the nurse-to-patient ratio at your hospital? How many are registered nurses? Now you can ask those questions and the hospital has to tell you
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303 Clinton Avenue
Kingston, New York 12402-3058
Phone: 518.265.9131
Toll Free: 866.889.6882