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Murder, She Writes

Read this comment by a reader of My Elder Advocate Blog. Hospitals are complicit in the murder and destruction of our elderly nursing home patient's. WHEN WILL THIS HOLOCAUST END!

A new comment from “Carmen ” was received on the post “A Typical Monday Afternoon at Sheepshead Nursing Home” of the weblog “My Elder Advocate”.

Calfornia Nursing Homes Kill Residents

That is correct...it is not a misstatement. I did not mean to say that two residents died as a result of neglect or abuse.

The nursing homes at issue are located near Sacramento, California. The nursing homes at fault are English Oaks and Marysville Care Center and here is what happened. At English Oaks a 91-year-old resident was choking on fruit and no one at the home provided the Heimlich maneuver - he died! At the Marysville Care Center an 84-year-old resident's head became stuck between the bed and a railing - she died. Both reports come from the California Department of Public Health. English Oaks also was fined in 2001 for not monitoring the feeding tube of a patient who got an infection and died. These facilities have a long history of serious violations.

Both facilities were owned by the same company, which received a "double citation" for these tragedies. A double citation...you have got to be kiddin me...someone needs to go to jail!
SEE NEWS STORY

Crisis of age requires cure

Financial Times

Every day an estimated 6,000 Americans turn 65. Four years from now, that figure will swell to 10,000 people a day so that by 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 or older. At the same time, geriatrics programmes across the US are shrinking, the number of certified geriatricians is falling relative to the population, physicians are disenrolling from Medicare, and fewer medical students are choosing careers in geriatrics.

Nursing home patients restrained, greed is not

By Saul Friedman-Newsday

Politicians and other soothsayers tell us how as a nation we honor and care for the oldest generation, our parents and grandparents, many of whom are ill or frail and need some comfort, security and dignity in their last years.

Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes

In recent years, Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, AIDS drugs or medicine to treat high-blood pressure.

One reason: Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

Fighting Bedsores With a Team Approach - New York Times

Link: Fighting Bedsores With a Team Approach - New York Times.

A Typical Monday Afternoon at Sheepshead Nursing Home

By Jack Halpern

I recently came to know a nice elderly woman, who we shall call Mrs. Rothman. Her husband, Alan was placed in Sheepshead Nursing Home in Brooklyn after a recent hospitalization. This nursing home, although mediocre at best is near Mrs. Rothman’s home. Sadie is in her eighties and very frail herself. I had the opportunity to place her husband in a better home, but she would not get the opportunity to visit him.

Sentosa Corporation Persecutes Nurses

Sentosa Corporation, purveyors of poor nursing home care throughout it's twenty five nursing homes in the State of New York, is persecuting a group of Philippine Nurses, who walked off the job to protest poor care at the facility they worked at.

The State's Deadly Neglect

State fines of less than $1,000 for ignoring broken bones, dehydration and the like are unlikely to be taken seriously by nursing homes. But the state has seemed almost afraid until now to punish Haven Healthcare, the owner of 15 nursing homes in Connecticut, for substandard care that has cost lives and caused suffering. SEE

Sentosa Corporation: Politics, Corruption & Death

I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness,
for the love of a lousy buck, I watched them die. Bob Dylan

Sentosa Corporation, operated by two morally corrupt individuals, Ben Landa and Bent Philipson through their political ties to some very powerful politicians, has been allowed to build a network of 25 Nursing Homes in the State of New York. See Newsday Article

Senior Moments: Preparing in advance for a hospital stay eases burdens on family

There's a good chance your aging parent will require hospitalization at some point, especially if he or she has chronic health conditions. If your parent relies primarily on you for assistance, it's important to do some preparation in advance even if it's only thinking about what will happen. LINK

Nursing Home Abuse Bill Sits in Congress, as Elder Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions

A nursing home abuse bill, the Elder Justice Act, has been under consideration in Congress for the past five years but has received scant attention and has yet to be passed. Although nursing home and elder abuse are serious and growing problems in this country, the nursing home abuse bill has never even been voted on. While no one in Congress opposes the nursing home abuse legislation, few are trying to push it through   the legislative process.

Nursing homes owned by private equity face U.S. inquiries

Hearld Tribune

Two U.S. congressional committees have announced that they will investigate business practices at nursing homes owned by private investment groups.

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Please Help Me Fight Alzheimer's Disease

   

There are five million people with Alzheimer’s disease. This disease is a scourge on our elderly. In nursing homes across the country, residents with this disease are among the most abused and neglected.

Please help eradicate this disease. Please open your hearts and your wallets.

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Corporate Greed Plus Government Apathy Equals Nursing Home Death and Destruction

According to the New York Times, thousands of nursing homes across the nation have been bought by large Wall Street investment companies. As such investors have acquired nursing homes, they have often reduced costs, increased profits and quickly resold facilities for significant gains.

But by many regulatory benchmarks, residents at those nursing homes are worse off, on average, than they were under previous owners, according to an analysis by The New York Times of data collected by government agencies from 2000 to 2006.

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Staten Island Hospital Neglects an Elderly Patient and Then Files a False Government Form to Cover it Up.

By Jack Halpern

Richmond University Medical Center neglected an elderly patient so badly, that he developed a Stage Four Decubitus Ulcer (most severe), in a matter of weeks. The hospital then falsified an official New York State Department of Health document to cover it up

Retiree turns his Alzheimer's into force for change

Don Hayen was understandably devastated when a doctor told him he has Alzheimer's disease.

But in the 2•   ½ years since his diagnosis, a strange thing has happened.

Elder Abuse Video

Answers on Medicaid Vary State by State

Link: Answers on Medicaid Vary State by State

State Office For the Aging Misspent Funds For Nursing Home Investigations Says North Country Gazette

From North Country Gazette

ALBANY—Officials of the New York State Office for the Aging (SOFA) misspent federal aid dollars on office furniture and out-of-state air travel, according to an audit released by the state comptroller’s office.

Link: SOFA Misspent Funds For Nursing Home Investigations.

The New York State Department of Health Enables Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect.

Not since those terrible years between the mid 70’s the mid 80’s, have elderly nursing home residents faced so much abuse and neglect. The horrible scandal that is rearing its ugly head is different from that earlier scandal in many ways.

The most significant and dangerous difference is that unlike the earlier scandal, this scandal involves a new and formidable enemy of the elderly in Nursing Homes, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH).

Brooklyn DA, Chales Hynes Honored at Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn Luncheon

On June 22, 2007, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J.Hynes received the Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn Power Of One Award, at a luncheon honoring him, held at Kingsborough Community College.

Joe Hynes received this award from Ms. Vicki Ellner our Chairperson, for his extensive work on behalf of Seniors in Brooklyn. See Previous Post On Hynes. My son Steven and I did a video honoring Mr. Hynes that is now on YOU Tube Check it out at Charles Hynes Video. Also check out the DA's exciting page turner "Triple Homicide".