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Missing 86-year-old Ohio nursing home resident found dead in walk-in refrigerator
September 17th, 2020
A woman was discovered dead in a walk-in refrigerator at an Ohio assisted living facility after she went missing early Tuesday morning
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Proper Wound Care is Very Important for all Nursing Home Residents
March 13th, 2020
We represent a lady who had a wound. The staff at the nursing home where she was a resident just kept wrapping it and wrapping it and wrapping it. She was finally sent to the hospital and the wound had deteriorated dramatically. If someone you love i…
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DOUGLAS: PROTECT NURSING PATIENTS
February 21st, 2020
Jutting his famous dimpled chin toward a rapt audience of congressmen, Kirk Douglas Wednesday called upon public officials to conduct “commando raids” of nursing homes to protect elderly residents from abuse and neglect. The jaunty actor,…
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UNDERSTAFFING IN NURSING HOMES
January 31st, 2020
James Steen, a registered nurse, recently sued the owners and the operators of the Highland Point Health & Rehab Center Nursing Home located at 402 Gulf View Lane in Highland Heights, Ohio 44143. In his complaint, Mr. Steen alleged that he was an…
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Family plans to sue ManorCare after their 80-year-old father escaped the nursing home and was hospitalized
June 6th, 2019
PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) – Lisa White said she got a call earlier this month from her brother that made her heart drop. “Dad’s missing and I said, how can he be missing, he’s in a nursing home?” she said. White said the staff found her father…
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Alzheimer’s Center aide indicted for abuse of elderly patient who later died
June 3rd, 2019
A former worker in the Wood Glen Alzheimer’s Community in Miami Twp. was indicted Thursday for beating an elderly patient who died two months later. Vanesha A. Rice, 24, was indicted by a grand jury for a Jan. 25, 2019, incident of patient abuse, a…
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A nursing home patient 'rotted to death' under nurses' care, Ohio attorney general says
February 15th, 2019
Current and former employees of an Ohio nursing facility are accused of mistreating two patients in their care, including one who died as a result of the nurses’ actions, Attorney General Dave Yost said Thursday. A Franklin County grand jury in…
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Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identifies 59-year-old Euclid man found dead in freezing cold
February 1st, 2019
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office released the identity of a man found dead in the freezing cold Wednesday morning behind a Euclid school. Alan Anderson, Jr., 59, of Euclid, left a rehabilitation center some time late Tuesday or early W…
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$3.4 Million Medicaid Fraud Inquiry Hovers Over Nursing Home Where Comatose Woman Was Raped and Had Baby
January 17th, 2019
State investigators in Arizona are examining $3.4 million in possible Medicaid fraud at the parent company of a Phoenix nursing center where a woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth to a boy in December, according to court records. The…
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Police Collect DNA From Nursing Home Workers After Rape of Patient in Coma
January 14th, 2019
The police collected the DNA of male employees of a private nursing home in Arizona this week as they broadened the investigation into allegations that a woman in a vegetative state there who gave birth to a child last month had been sexually assault…
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