http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news_index/nursing_home.html Scams, lawsuits, prosecutions and warnings from ConsumerAffairs.Com en-us Copyright 2004 ConsumerAffairs.Com azieger@consumeraffairs.com (Anne Zieger) jhood@consumeraffairs.com (Jim Hood) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/02/robots.html Nursing home study finds no difference between robots and real dogs. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/02/pa_nursing_home_sex_assault.html Man was found partially nude near a 90-year-old Alzheimer's patient. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/02/fl_nh_nurses.html More than 70 doses of medication unaccounted for. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/03/ca_pleasant_care.html California's second-largest nursing home chain has agreed to pay $1 million and improve the quality of care at its 30 facilities in the state, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/01/ny_nursing_homes.html Nineteen employees at two New York State nursing homes where hidden cameras revealed distressing evidence of patient neglect have been arrested, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/nursing_home_101.html Many adult "kids" with parents needing residential care think that, once they find a facility that doesn't make them reach for the silver bullet, the job's done. Think again. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ca_sun_healthcare.html Sun Healthcare Group, Inc., will pay $2.5 million and make numerous changes in the operation of its California nursing homes, Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. The agreement resolves claims that the nursing home operator violated a 2001 permanent injunction that required it to improve the quality of care at all 18 of its California facilities. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/caregiver_shortage.html As the U.S. population ages, there may be a shortage of professionally trained people to care for the millions of older Americans. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ny_nursinghome_theft.html Two former nursing home supervisors of a Long Beach nursing home have been arrested on charges of stealing more than $400,000 from the home, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced. The mother of one of the supervisors has also been charged in the scheme. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/il_nursing_home.html Illinois is considering legislation to address the problem of parolees and sex offenders living among vulnerable elderly and mentally ill residents in state-licensed nursing homes. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/tx_nursing_homes.html Court-appointed trustees will assume the operations of 13 Texas nursing homes that are controlled by corporations headed by parent company Foremost Care Inc., Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/in_nursing_home.html Shortly after a resident at an Indiana nursing home caught fire, state inspectors descended on the facility and cited it for multiple violations of state code. State officials say the Regency Place nursing home of Dyer, Indiana, faces a fine in connection with the alleged violations. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/mi_nursing_homes.html Two studies conducted by the office of Attorney General Mike Cox reveal almost 10 percent of the employees caring for the state's vulnerable adults have criminal backgrounds that include homicide, criminal sexual conduct, weapon charges, and drug offenses. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ia_nursing_home.html Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has filed a lawsuit against the owners of Heather Manor, a Des Moines nursing home, accusing them of engaging in consumer fraud. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ny_erie_nursinghome.html New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the arrest of a registered nurse and two nurse's aides employed at a Williamsville, N.Y., nursing home for illegally tying an elderly senile patient to his wheelchair and leaving him unattended. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ny_nursinghome.html A licensed practical nurse convicted after trial of molesting a bedridden female patient at Monroe Community Hospital (SNF) has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in state prison. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/il_nursing_home.html Illinois is considering legislation to address the problem of parolees and sex offenders living among vulnerable elderly and mentally ill residents in state-licensed nursing homes. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/fl_nursing_home.html Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Fourteenth Circuit State Attorney Steve Meadows announced the arrest of a nurse employed by a Holmes County nursing home on charges of neglect of an elderly adult.