Category: Nursing Home Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Analysis of New data has indicated that understaffing in nursing homes can be directly linked to elder abuse. Advocates dedicated to preventing elder abuse launched a new campaign that reviews published data and studies to evaluate the relationship between understaffing and elder abuse. Studies published in the various […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A recent nursing home abuse case in Los Angeles has completed its journey through the legal system.  Unfortunately, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department has yet to finish their investigation into the matter.  This case illustrates the problem with the growing backlog of incomplete investigations into nursing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER There was disagreement between officials from the California Department of Public Health and long-term care advocates at a recent Assembly oversight hearing.  The hearing topic was the regulators’ ability to process and investigate abuse complaints against nursing assistants.  There was a dispute over how many allegations of abuse […]

Every year, more than 4 million older Americans suffer from emotional, physical, and psychological abuse and neglect, and more than half a million of these victims never report the abuse, California elder abuse lawyers say. Although our society has several institutions such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities in […]

Last November, the Medical Board of California revoked the license of the former medical director of several nursing homes in the area. Dr. Ray Poon-Phang Seet was cited by the board for several acts of gross negligence, unprofessional behavior, incompetence, and writing prescriptions without prior examinations or medical necessity. According […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of an elder care facility in Sacramento has been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter.  The charges stem from the death of a resident at the Super Home Care facility.  The elderly victim in this case was hospitalized in June of 2012 with gaping bedsores.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Three nursing homes in East Bay, California, have been forced to pay high penalties for their hand in the deaths of three facility residents. The nursing homes have been cited for providing poor care for their residents, and for failing to maintain safe environments for residents. Alameda county […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that antipsychotic medications should not be used on elderly people with dementia.  Prescribing such drugs to the elderly can hasten death.  Yet, medical experts and federal regulators say antipsychotic drugs are being used to at an alarming rate by nursing homes […]

A new California health care law makes all employees, supervisors or administrators at nursing homes or assisted living facilities mandated reporters. As mandated reporters, they are legally required to report any physical abuse, abandonment, neglect, isolation or financial abuse of residents in long-term care centers to local law enforcement and […]

A California nursing director at a Kern County hospital was sentenced to three years in prison for drugging elderly patients with potent and medically unnecessary anti-psychotic medication to make them easier to control. According to the California Attorney General, the nursing director convinced others to prescribe the drugs to the […]