A daughter was accused of financially abusing her ailing mother 2 years after her mom suffered a stroke in 2010, 62 year old Barbara Schwarz started to help her with her finances. However instead of helping her she started to steal money from her account to pay for spa treatments, fancy clothes…
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A Certified nurse aid was arrested after being charged with physically abusing a nursing home resident at the West Lawrence Care Center in Far Rockaway, Queens, NY
Last August an 80 year old nursing home resident suffered severe personal injury after she was physically abused by a nurse’s aid in a New York facility. The incident happened when 59 year old Marie Jeanty, a certified nurse aid was changing the resident at the West Lawrence Care Center, a nursing home…
In a race for Medicare dollars, nursing homes are luring short term rehabilitation patients with luxurious amenities but neglect medical care
Many nursing homes have attractive lobbies and enticing amenities but neglect to provide medical care to their patients. Geriatric researchers call this disconnect “the chandelier effect”. Because short term medicare patients are much more lucrative than long term medicaid patients, nursing home are investing in luxurious facilities but most often neglect medical…
Lack of oversight in hospice care has led to a general culture of abuse, misconduct and unethical behaviour
Lack of comprehensive regulation in the hospice industry has lead to repeated instances of abuse and neglect of patients. More and more patients in hospice care are suffering needlessly because they don’t get routine hydration, nutrition, medical attention and proper prescription medication. In this video, Farron Cousins, a guest host…
Nursing Home aid charged with killing a resident in the Bronx, NYC
A New York nursing home resident died after he was presumably abused by an aid at the beginning of this month. Franck Mercado, a visually impaired resident from University Nursing Home at 2505 Grand Ave. in the Bronx, was beaten by 41 year old Cherrylee Young and he fell on…
A case against a male nurse who alledgelly raped a 64 year old woman with dementia in a NYC nursing home was adjourned for the sixth time
Last February a 64 year old patient from a nursing home in the Bronx, NY, was allegedly raped by a a nurse. The victim suffered from dementia and couldn’t speak because of a previous stroke. The abuse happened at the Manhattan Healthcare Center in Marble Hill in the Bronx, NYC.…
A nurse who committed a medical error and injured a nursing home patient by administrating morphine instead of a muscle relaxant and then tried to cover her error by falsifying documents was indicted by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman
A wheelchair-bound resident of a Long Island nursing home suffered serious personal injury after a nurse committed a medical error and injected him with morphine instead of a prescribed muscle relaxant and then attempted to cover up her error by falsifying documents. The nursing home resident overdosed and had to…
Home Health Aid caught by nanny cam abusing 78 year old paralyzed man in Queens, NY
A Home Health Aid from Personal Touch Home Care agency was caught on camera abusing a paralyzed senior. The video shows 38 year old Ihor Krutowskyi grabbing the 78 old stroke victim by the nose, violently shaking his head yanking his arm and smacking his hand. The home aid knew…
67 year old nursing home resident sentenced to 17 years in jail after beating another resident to death
An elderly man who killed his nursing home roommate at the Ocean Promenade Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Rockaway Park, Queens will be sentenced to 17 years in prison. Last year 67 year old Thomas Yarnavick got into a dispute with his roommate, Jailall Singh and beat him to death…
Hidden camera leads to charges of neglect against 17 employees of New York Nursing Home
8 nurses and 9 nursing assistants neglected to provide the most basic care to a disabled patient of a New York nursing home. A hidden camera placed in the room of a 56 year old resident disabled by a neurological disease shows that employees at the Highpointe on Michigan Health…