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Georgia Nursing Home Abuse News Headlines

 

Justice Department Reaches Settlement Regarding Conditions At Medical Center and Nursing Home

Nursing Home Executives Indicted On Conspiracy, Fraud, False Statements, And Tax Charges

Pre-paid Funeral Scam Targets Elderly

Nursing Home Aide Convicted For Raping 90 Year-Old Resident Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

Nursing Home Horror The Dark Side Of Fraud

Attorney General Stumbo Announces Arrest Of Caretaker At London Assisted Living Facility

Smoking Memo Urges Facility Operators To Protect Against Fire Risks

Attorney General Corbett Announces Arrest Of Three Women In Elder Abuse Case

Nursing Home Aide Convicted For Raping 90-Year-Old Resident

Nursing Home Violations For The Month Of October

Nurse Aide Pleads Guilty To Abusing Elderly Man

Nursing Home Violations For The Month Of September

Everett Nursing Assistant Suspended For Patient Abuse And Sexual Misconduct

Spring Valley Nurse Aide Pleads Guilty To Abusing Elderly Man In Nursing Home

HHS Provides Funding to States for Alternatives to Nursing Home Care in Medicaid

U.S. Nursing Home Care Found Wanting

New Nursing Home Fire Safety Act

Rhode Island Nursing Home Operators Plead Guilty To Equity Skimming

DSHS Fines Privately Owned Nursing Home

CAMERAS REVEAL NEGLECT AT NURSING HOMES

Program Reduces Hospitalizations, Costs For Nursing Home Residents With Pneumonia

Pneumonia Can Be Treated Effectively In Nursing Homes

CMS Announces Nursing Home Payments to Increase in 2006

About Nursing Home Inspections

Nursing Homes Resident Rights

NYSNA Safe Patient Handling Bill Signed Into Law

Nurse Aide Pleads Guilty To Beating 85-Year-Old Patient

Oak Park Nursing Home Fined For Not Reporting Abuse

Utica Nurse Aide Charged In Elderly Patient's Fall

Attorney General Mike Beebe Reaches $1.5 Million Settlement In Nursing Home Cases

Texas Department Of Aging Will Continue As Separate Agency Until 2006

Charges Filed Against Group Home Director

Safety Advocate Applauds Government Decision Mandating Installation Of Smoke Detectors In Nursing Homes

DHSS Announces Plan For Surprise Inspections

Attorney General Lockyer Announces "Operation Guardians" To Combat Abuse And Neglect Of Elderly Californians In Nursing Homes

Nursing Home Care Improving In Many Areas New CMS Data Show, New Steps Initiated

Nursing Home Costs Average $70,080 Per Year In U.S., Home Care Is $18 Per Hour: 2004 Metlife Mature Market Institute Survey Reports

As Baby Boomers And Their Parents Age, Law Firms Prepare For Increase In Nursing Home Negligence Cases

Beware Nursing Homes Asking Residents To Waive Their Legal Rights To Sue For Abuse Or Neglect

Cms To Require Certain Nursing Homes To Install Smoke Detectors

Attorney General Lockyer Announces First-Ever Civil Enforcement Action Against California Nursing Home Owner-Operators

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Did You Know?    
 
 
There are definitions of nursing home abuse and neglect.
Abuse means causing intentional pain or harm. This includes physical, mental, verbal, psychological, and sexual abuse, corporal punishment, unreasonable seclusion, and intimidation.
 


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News about Nursing Home Abuse cases in Georgia and nationwide:

Everett Nursing Assistant Suspended For Patient Abuse And Sexual Misconduct
An Everett nursing assistant has been suspended from practice based on allegations of sexual misconduct and patient abuse in two separate workplace...
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HHS Provides Funding to States for Alternatives to Nursing Home Care in Medicaid

Through competitive grants, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will give states a total of $1.75 billion over five yea...
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Utica Nurse Aide Charged In Elderly Patient's Fall
Jodi Guyett, 30 of 1206 Court St. in Utica, was arraigned today in Utica City Court before Judge John Balzano on four counts: two of Wilful Violati...
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Nursing Home Terms

 


Today's Terms

Dementia

Definition:
A clinical term used to describe a group of brain disorders that disrupt and impair cognitive functions -- thinking, memory, judgment -- personality, mood, and social interaction. Also, see Senility in this Glossary.

Hospice

Definition:
Usually a combination of at-home and hospital care of the terminally ill that combines medical and social services. It is designed to help both the patient and the family. Hospice care emphasizes pain control, symptom management, and emotional support rather than the use of life-sustaining equipment

Elder Abuse

Definition:
Term describing three types of domestic violence including abuse, neglect and exploitation

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Nursing Home Hot Topics

 
Topics Related to Nursing Homes:

  • Wrongful Death
  • Physical Abuse
  • Malnutrition Abuse
  • Wrong Medicine
  • Financial Abuse

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Georgia Nursing Home Attorney
 
If you live in the following cities and need an nursing home attorney you should contact our Nursing Home Attorney as soon as possible:

  • Acworth
  • Albany
  • Alpharetta
  • Athens
  • Atlanta
  • Augusta
  • Columbus
  • Cumming
  • Dalton
  • Decatur
  • Douglasville
  • Duluth
  • Griffin
  • Hephzibah
  • Hinesville
  • Jonesboro
  • Kennesaw
  • Lawrenceville
  • Lilburn
  • Lithonia
  • Loganville
  • Marietta
  • Milledgeville
  • Moultrie
  • Newnan
  • Norcross
  • Powder Springs
  • Ringgold
  • Rome
  • Roswell
  • Savannah
  • Smyrna
  • Stockbridge
  • Stone Mountain
  • Suwanee
  • Tifton
  • Warner Robins
  • Woodstock
 


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