Posts tagged Nursing Home

• Suit Filed Against McKenna Nursing Home

  Ryan Nute | May 09, 2007 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Nisqually Valley Care Center in McKenna, Washington is being sued by the daughter of a resident (Florence Pierpoint, 79) who reportedly died after being given a morphine overdose when staff did not follow her doctor's instructions about pain medication.While prosecutors declined to file criminal charges, the nursing home received a citation in connection with her death because the staff...

• Nursing Home Outreach

  Michael Myers | September 21, 2008 11:09 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I recently read that there are over three million elderly people residing in nursing homes in the United States. Alarmingly, twenty-five percent of them are neglected or abused.  Medicare...

• California Nursing Home Sued for Abuse

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Pleasant Care Convalescent of Riverside is being sued by the family of a former resident for abuse they allege happened there. The resident was given physical therapy for 10 days for knee pain when in fact she has a broken hip and required surgery. While at the hospital for treatment is was found she had other signs of poor care, including bed sores."It's our theory that they're understaffed -...