Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Amendment/Retraction to Article Re Life Care Centers of America

  Matt Christian | August 14, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In an earlier blog dated July 31, 2007, and titled "Nursing Home Charged Criminally for Abuse" the statement was made that Life Care Centers of America pled "guilty" to criminal charges. This was an inadvertant typographical error. Life Care Centers of America has pled "not guilty" to these charges. We apologize for any inconvenience or issues this error may have caused.For more information...

• Nursing Home to Pay $54M For Resident Who Bled to Death

  Ric Davis | August 10, 2007 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In the largest personal injury verdict in state history, a New Mexico jury awarded $54 million to the family of a woman who bled to death in her nursing home. The plaintiff's lawyer, Carl Bettinger of Albuquerque, was already well-acquainted with the defendant, having previously litigated more than half a dozen similar negligence trials against Manor Care, a nursing home chain based in Toledo,...

• Nursing Home's Profits Could Be Used To Prevent Abuse and Neglect

  Matt Christian | August 09, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  As many people know, the nursing home chain, Manor Care, was recently purchased for a very large sum of money. The reports indicate that the CEO of Manor Care, Paul Ormond, would receive between $118 and $186 million dollars as a result of the buy-out. Toby S. Edelman of the Center for Medicare Advocacy and the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform has had an interesting inquiry about...

• Nursing Home Charged Criminally for Abuse

  Matt Christian | July 31, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Life Care Centers of America pled not guilty this week to charges of manslaughter, abuse and neglect, and filing false Medicare claims. The charges against the Tennessee based chain come in the wake of an investigation in the death of a 74 year-old woman in Massachussetts.McCauley, a resident confined to a wheelchair at the Life Care Center of Acton, died after wheeling herself out of front...

• Nursing Homes Get Rich While the Neglected Suffer

  Matt Christian | July 03, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A major factor in nursing home abuse cases is the fact that many nursing homes are underfunded and understaffed. The nursing homes consistently claim that they do not have the money to fund and appropriately run these homes but recent business trends show otherwise. The Carlyle Group announced yesterday that it is going to purchase Manor Care, a nursing home operator for $6.3 billion.Manor...

• Medical Malpractice Crisis about the Operating Room and the Board Room, Not the Courtroom

  Ric Davis | June 27, 2007 6:05 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Study after study confirms that the medical malpractice "crisis" has its roots in the operating room, not the courtroom. A study released by HealthGrades, a consumer advocacy group that rates health care providers, found that an astonishing 1.2 million Medicare patients suffered "adverse safety incidents" in American hospitals over the two-year period, 2002-2004. Of those million-plus...

• Nursing Home Neglect and Mandatory Arbitration

  Josh Christian | June 20, 2007 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In an article recently posted by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the Coalition explains the ill affects of a binding arbitration agreement in a nursing home abuse situation. As is pointed out in this article it is depriving families of choice and accountability for the places in which their loved ones live. In the article, as NCCNHR points out, mandatory arbitration...

• Windsor Manor Sued in Two Wrongful Death Suits

  Shannon Weidemann | May 02, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A California nursing home has been sued twice with wrongful death suits. A husband and wife are both suing the Windsor Manor nursing home in Concord, California. Both of their mothers died while patients at the nursing home in two seperate incidents. One mother died from a fall while she was unsupervised and unassisted and the other died from apiration pneumonia. Attorney Jay P. Renneisen, a...