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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
A business manager who was stealing money from the residents of a New York nursing home by falsifying the books and forging names on receipts was sentenced to 3 years probation including counseling for gambling problems. Wendy Vice a former business manager at Highland Nursing Home admitted to stealing $18,000…
Prospect Park Residence, an assisted living home in Brooklyn, NYC, may have acted in an abusive manner when they contacted residents two weeks ago to let them know that they would have to vacate their residence in 90 days creating fears and anger among the residents and their families. The…