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Two nursing assistants fired last year from a Nash Road nursing home tried to get two incapacitated residents with diminished mental abilities to have "some form of sexual encounter" while taking pictures of them on a cell phone, according to documents obtained from the state Health Department. Alicia J. Clemens and Gloria N. Maxwell, who worked at Northgate Health Care Facility and were identified in agency documents, brought a female patient in a wheelchair into a room shared by a married couple.
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Civil suits help uncover abuses by nursing home and insurance companies, according to a new report by the American Association for Justice. Where regulatory and legislative bodies have been unable to cope with this distressing rise of neglect and abuse of our elderly, the civil justice system has stepped into the breach," said AAJ President Gibson Vance, a partner in the Montgomery, Ala., office of Beasley Allen, in a statement accompanying the release of the report, "Standing Up For Seniors: How the Civil Justice System Protects Elderly Americans.
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Sexual Predator Hearing, Sex Offender Classification, Nursing Home, Patient Abuse, Gross Sexual Imposition, Clear and Convincing Evidence
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Last Tuesday, one day after a 19-year old employee at a Lafayette Parish nursing home admitted raping a 92-year-old woman suffering from dementia, Louisiana's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit announced a plan to combat nursing home abuse. The plan, dubbed Operation Safeguard, will help coordinate surprise inspections conducted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and criminal investigators with state and federal agencies. The announcement came at the Louisiana Nursing Home Association's annual convention.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. N A group that advocates for nursing home reforms has asked the governor to appoint a task force to review why more abuse and death cases arenOt prosecuted. Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform founder Bernie Vonderheide told the Lexington Herald-Leader he made the request after stories in the newspaper showed few citations were prosecuted as crimes over a three-year period.
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When Carl Bettinger stepped up to the jury box in the summer of 2007 to make closing arguments in a nursing home abuse case, he reminded the jury that his client was not just an old and sick woman, as the defense claimed. She had been a child, had played in a sandbox, had been a mother and grandmother, had loved and lived. The jury responded to his imagery, coming back with one of the largest verdicts in the country that year - $54 million.
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The horror stories regarding nursing home physical abuses are mind-numbing: * A 19-year old employee at a Lafayette Parish nursing home admits raping a 92-year-old woman suffering from dementia.
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With state funding for adult day care slated to end , county officials are preparing for the worst: increases in 9-1-1 calls, emergency room visits, nursing home placements and investigations for abuse and neglect. Demand for mental health services and in-home care also is expected to rise. Officials say the scale of the coming cuts is unprecedented. Roughly 23,000 seniors and low-income adults with mental and physical impairments in Los Angeles County alone will be forced to either pay out of pocket, seek other care or do without.
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LA CAADA FLINTRIDGE - A senior-care facility and its locally based parent corporation are being sued for elder abuse and negligence. The latest litigation comes less than a year after the company settled a state lawsuit over inadequate service at its more than two dozen California locations.
