Posts Tagged ‘Abuse’
We Should Not Be Surprised To Hear Of Fraud In Covering Up Nursing Home Deaths
The New York Times reports today that investigators looking into the eight deaths at the Florida nursing home last week, are finding resident medical records to be “replete with late entries” whereby the staff came along after the fact and made entries that were supposed to have been made at the time of treatment. For someone…
Read MoreAbuse And Assaults In Nursing Homes Going Unreported
A recent report by the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office warns that it has found that 1 in 4 cases of sexual assault and abuse in America’s nursing homes is going unreported to police. Although the report is preliminary, it was based on a large sampling of cases in 33 states. Having handled…
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