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Missouri legislature passed a bill in 2007 requiring residential care facilities with at least 20 beds to install sprinklers by the end of 2012


The legislation was introduced after eleven people died in a November 2006 fire at Anderson Guest House, a southwest Missouri facility that was home for mentally ill and disabled residents. Now, Missouri lawmakers have voted...

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Infections in nursing home residents, which is the cause of approximately 400,000 deaths in U.S. nursing homes annually, may be largely attributed to understaffing


According to a new study, set to be published in the American Journal of Infection Control in May 2011, infections in nursing home residents, which is the cause of approximately 400,000 deaths in U.S. nursing...

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The “prank” of two former employees of LaSalle Veterans Home has led to a lawsuit


Thinking it would be a great practical joke on the following shift, facility employees Julie Payne and Cynthia Orlando reportedly thought it would be funny to insert a suppository into the rectum of a defenseless...

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In yet another example of taking advantage of an elderly person, we look to Montana where an eighty-two year old nursing home resident was apparently supporting a woman and her two children, without knowing it


Jerome Wilson lives at Park Place Health Care Center in Great Falls, Montana. He suffers from dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Somehow, Tamara Belcourt reportedly managed to get appointed as Wilson’s Power of Attorney, despite the...

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A South Carolina caregiver faces elder abuse charges after a December 31, 2010 incident


Forty-one-year-old Sonia King was making morning rounds at Carolina House on New Year’s Eve when she reportedly slapped two elderly residents and threatened to choke a third resident. The residents were provided medical treatment. King,...

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An Oregon nursing home resident reportedly was sexually assaulted by an employee of the facility


An Oregon nursing home resident reportedly was sexually assaulted by an employee of the facility. The resident, who is mentally incapacitated, was allegedly sexually assaulted at Valley West Health Care Center in Eugene, Oregon on...

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Missouri’s Board of Healing Arts – are they watching out for you? According to a recently published St. Louis Post Dispatch article, the answer is “no”


St. Louis Post Dispatch reporters Jeremy Kohler and Blythe Bernhard conducted an investigation that revealed years of accountability failures on the part of the Board and various government officials. The investigation revealed: – The Board...

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The untimely death of a Colorado nursing home resident has prompted an investigation by the Colorado Health Department and Commerce City Police Department


Fifty-seven-year-old Angela Guerra suffered severe injuries to her face in early December, reportedly after running into a wall at the Woodridge Park Nursing Home. Her children are questioning the nursing home’s explanation in light of...

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An eighty-five year old female resident was allegedly assaulted by an employee of the Emeritus Senior Living Center


An eighty-five-year-old female resident was allegedly assaulted by an employee of the Emeritus Senior Living Center, a nursing home facility located in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to a report compiled by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department,...

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Deborah Riggs, a narcotics charge nurse at Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center in Kansas, pleaded guilty on December 13, 2010 to one count of consumer product tampering and one count of adulteration of a drug


Deborah Riggs, a narcotics charge nurse at Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center in Kansas, pleaded guilty on December 13, 2010 to one count of consumer product tampering and one count of adulteration of a drug....

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