Ninety-one year old Esther Rannow moved into Benedictine Living Community in February 2007, less than one month after her 91st birthday. In early October 2007, she died after being dropped at the facility. On October...
Reportedly, Ramey and an accomplice would set up accounts with utility companies using identities of seniors, disabled individuals, or nursing home residents. Ramey reportedly had access to the victims’ personal information, although how she obtained...
John Lazzaro was viciously assaulted in his room on November 23 by fellow resident, Matthew Harvey. Lazzaro suffered severe trauma in the attack and suffered facial wounds; his arm had to be amputated due to...
On November 24, 2010, Telesforo Vasquez, III , an employee of Castle Pines nursing home, reportedly exposed his genitals to the woman and ordered her to touch him. When she refused, he forced her down,...
The facility has been cited five with Type A citations, the most serious available, for violations of state regulations since July 2010. The facility’s license is set to be revoked on December 9, 2010. According...
The proposed legislation would require all deaths to be reported to the county coroner within 24 hours by a specific staff member at long-term care facilities and hospices. Current state law only requires facilities to...
Deborah J. Riggs, 55, has had a previous drug conviction and has had her nursing license suspended twice after allegations of stealing controlled substances. In this instance, Riggs is accused of diluting morphine solutions which...
Thirty-year-old Paul Scott was charged with sexual abuse in the first degree of a physically helpless person in the alleged sexual assault of a seventy-seven year-old female resident, who suffers from dementia. The alleged incident...
Reportedly, the eighty-three year-old resident of Calhoun Health Care, a nursing home facility in Calhoun, Georgia, was in her wheelchair when Hardin-Simerly spun her around several times after she was instructed to stop. Hardin-Simerly also...
The recent case of a thirty-seven-year-old Belleville, Illinois nursing home employee being charged with identity theft has spotlighted a growing national problem. On November 12, 2010, Cynthia Hill was charged with two counts of aggravated...