State: Nursing Home Staffers Abused Residents
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ROCKVILLE, Ind. -- Two staff members at a nursing home abused demented residents, encouraging one to expose her breasts and another to hit himself in his genitals, a state agency said.
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Congress said it would investigate business practices at nursing homes owned by private investment groups, after staffing at many of the homes was shown to be cut severely.
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Several states are considering the use of video surveillance in nursing homes, to keep an eye on residents and the care they receive.
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As many as 40 care workers abused children at a school for vunerable youngsters, a report concludes.
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Health Care Workers Union, SEIU 250, lashed out Sutter Health for locking out 7,000 caregivers at thirteen Sutter Health facilities Thursday.
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The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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A nightshift nurse abused 14 patients, many unable to communicate, at a nursing home where he is accused of raping a partially paralyzed man, authorities said Thursday.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man accused of fondling home health care nurses while posing as a mentally retarded person who needed diapers changed has been sentenced to a year on home confinement.
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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JANESVILLE, Wis. - A man was accused of beating his 79-year-old grandmother with a claw hammer because she said she wouldn't write him a check for $500.  Delores L.
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Pharmacists, health experts and federal and state health officials are expressing &quot;serious concern&quot; about how nursing home residents will receive prescription drugs under the new Medicare law, the New York Times reports.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - The U.S. military prison guard  convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said on  Saturday he complained repeatedly to superiors about the rough  treatment he was forced to mete out to prisoners.
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Elderly people were put at risk at two substandard nursing homes in Halifax, according to the homes watchdog.
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RED BANK, Tenn. - Two young women complained to police that they were spanked by their 57-year-old employer for mistakes on the job, and the boss now faces criminal charges.
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US army medics collaborated with guards who abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail, it is claimed.
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TORONTO -- Nursing home workers say they&#39;re often overwhelmed or injured on the job and feel frustrated that they&#39;re unable to deliver the level of care elderly residents need, a new survey says.
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Nursing home worker John Riems had a temper and spent long periods in patients' rooms with the doors closed, neighbors and former co-workers say, troubling observations that have suddenly taken on a sickening weight.