Hidden Camera Reveals Abuse at NY Nursing Home

Comments

[morgan]

There are cameras in the hallways and in the outside of the nursing home but I wonder if they are just props and not working. I am going to ask the administrators at the meeting. I want the cameras. It will prove to the state that there are safety violations going on at Nesconset Nursing Center.

[Teresa P.]

I agree but the HIPPA laws put a stop to that. However if an abuse case was caught on camera the face of the victem could be blocked, therefor keeping privacy intact. Now hidden camera's are not permitted for the nursing homes to install, but someone like myself can go in with one on our person.

Unless I'm mistaken. Here in NC we are aloud to video and record any conversation as long as we are in it.(the person doing the recording). I tape several interviews with a few emplotees of the home I was investigating, but I was in those conversations.

I heard on the news the other day that the law is trying to get it passed that if you tie your dog to a chain you will be fined and or the dog removed from you.

I saw another case where a poor 17 year old boy extremly emancipated bound by the ankle, cut, bruised and battered escaped his captors it was all over the news. Thank God he escaped. Our elders can not escape their abusers, their at the mercy of whom ever is caring for them, their families half the time clueless that their even being neglected or mistreated. AT least animals have the animal patrol on duty, to rescue them. You see an animal being abused just pick up the phone, animal control will be their Johnny on the spot. Hell I think they even have a program on cable that actually shows the animal being rescued. I tried my damiest to get the local news to report a severe case of elder abuse here and could not get the time of day.

Global warming, animal abuse, child abuse, spouse abuse all these have their own ads on television, but the only ads you see here in my state on elder abuse is the lawyers ads saying if you or someone you know in a nursing home has been abused give us a call. All after the fact! And you better be sure they were darn near killed our that lawyer won't take your case. I had a lawyer tell me that.

His exact words "It wouldn't be worth my time because there were no broke bones or death involved".

Lord have mercy on this world and poor idiots in it!~

To the administrator that had cameras installed good for you, Thanks for trying and caring. Fire everyone that you even think might be abusive, keep up the good work. Teresa

[Scott]

I am the Executive Director of a not for profit nursing home in Washington State. We installed cameras in all common areas of the facility several years ago. Then, the State surveyor forced us to turn them off and issued us a level D citation.

We have legislative support to run a bill to help us.

Any suggestions?

Any legislation in other areas we should look at?

[mary ann purisch]

its outrageous to me how health care workers treat patients!!!!!!!!they should be convicted,poor excuses "a single mother with so many patients"NO EXCUSE,THAT LAWYER SHOUD BE SHOT AS WELL. ALL HOMES SHOULD HAVE HIDDEN CAMERA,S.