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On August 8, 2010, one hundred year old Dorothy Butler was taken to Middle Tennessee Medical Center Emergency Department suffering from severe hemorrhaging, four broken ribs, and “two pressure sores and bruising”…

On August 8, 2010, one hundred year old Dorothy Butler was taken to Middle Tennessee Medical Center Emergency Department suffering from severe hemorrhaging, four broken ribs, and “two pressure sores and bruising”. The cause of...

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Registered nurse Angela Almore was charged with second degree murder on June 7, 2010 after a nursing home resident in her care died

Almore, a registered nurse employed at Britthaven of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, reportedly gave a dose of unprescribed morphine to 84 year-old Rachel Holliday, an Alzheimer’s resident who later died. The medical examiner attributed...

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Angela Broihahn, a former Wisconsin nursing home aide, was charged with six counts of patient abuse and more…

Angela Broihahn, a former Wisconsin nursing home aide, was charged with six counts of patient abuse, one count of attempted nursing home patient abuse, and four counts of possession of narcotic drugs in connection to...

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6 common causes of bed sores in nursing home and hospital patients part 2

Some studies have shows that 35 to 85 percent of nursing home residents are malnourished. The causes vary as to why so many nursing home residents suffer from malnourishment. In most cases, the cause of...

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Reportedly, verbal abuse, headlocks and chokeholds are used to restrain residents at a Texas adult daycare center in Spring, Texas

Westridge Pinnacle Care is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General after the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services found a “threat to the health and safety of the residents”...

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A New York nurse was caught red-handed abusing a defenseless nursing home resident by a granny cam

Fifty-six year old Jessie Joiner, a nurse at William Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion in Queens, New York, was seen pushing a medication cart on March 20, 2010 around 9:00 p.m. when she suddenly left her cart...

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Fifty-six year old Julio Mestre, a registered sex offender, reportedly sexually molested two nursing home residents on May 8, 2010

The women were roommates at Creekside Health Care Center, a nursing home located in San Pablo, California. On the day of the attack, a nursing home worker reported that a man entered the room of...

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A resident of a Sikeston nursing home eloped on Thursday, March 18, 2010 from the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston, Missouri

A resident of a nursing home eloped on Thursday, March 18, 2010 from the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston, Missouri. The facility, owned by Don Bedell, is reportedly equipped with door sensors and alarms,...

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A Texas nursing home CNA faces charges that he sexually assaulted a nursing home resident

Richard Sanchez was arrested and is being held on $120,000 bond on three charges. The Sheriff’s Office received a telephone call from Community Care Center of Clarendon on April 27, 2010, reporting that one of...

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A Virginia nursing home aide for National HealthCare (NHC) was sentenced to sixty years in prison for sexually assaulting four nursing home residents in his care

According to a psychological evaluation read at Wright’s recent court hearing, he blames his victims for the sexual abuse they endured. The psychological evaluation also describes Wright as a manipulative hedonist with tendencies of voyeurism...

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An Illinois nursing home was subjected to a random sweep checking for violations of regulations and state law

Golden Moments, a Jacksonville, Illinois nursing home, was raided on Monday, May 24, 2010 by fourteen police and state officials. Among those involved were the Illinois State Police, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, the Illinois...

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Beverly Rasberry Stone, the operator of Stonecrest Senior Care in Sweetwater, Texas, was indicted on May 11, 2010 on two counts of injury to an elderly person after a resident under her care developed severe bedsores

The abuse allegations arose after Stone’s facility “failed to seek appropriate attention, and (the bedsores) became untreatable”. The resident eventually died of unrelated causes and the death is not at issue in the injury charges...

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