Nursing Home Abuse

A handful of nursing homes in the greater St. Louis area offer a safe, comfortable, and supportive environment for their residents. But a quick look at the nursing home compare tool from Medicaid quickly reveals that a majority of the long-term care facilities in and around our city are seriously...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that as of 2014 there were approximately 15,600 nursing homes in the United States. At that time, about 79.8% of these nursing homes were owned by private individuals and corporations, and they served as many as 1.4 million residents at...

The decision to put a loved one in a nursing home can be one of the toughest things you ever have to do. When you place a loved one in someone else’s care, you are taking a leap of faith, trusting that the nurses, physicians, and other caregivers will do their job and treat your relative as one of...

Nursing home abuse can come in various forms – ranging from physical assaults and violence to sexual abuse, emotional abuse and even financial abuse. Tragically, nursing home abuse can be as rampant as it is devastating, as federal data indicates that at least 1 in every 10 nursing home residents...

Chicago Nursing Home Accused of Abuse against Resident, Facing Lawsuit Alden-Princeton Rehabilitation and Health Care, a monolithic building in downtown Chicago purported to be a 5-star nursing home care facility, has recently been slapped with a lawsuit, alleging that negligent care caused the...

Nursing homes can provide our elderly loved ones with the extra care they may need day to day. Tragically, however, these facilities are not always safe, as they can expose the elderly to physical, verbal, sexual and/or emotional abuse. If you have a loved one living in a nursing home,...

A deadly nursing home fire that occurred in an elderly care facility in Quebec has raised questions regarding whether nursing homes have adequate evacuation plans. A deadly nursing home fire that occurred last week in an elderly care facility in Quebec has raised many questions and concerns...

Only about 1 out of every 14 cases of nursing home abuse is ever reported because, in many cases, abused residents fear retaliation or lack the capacity to report the abuse. Continuing from Nursing Home Abuse Facts and Statistics (Part 1) ¸ the following provides some additional facts and...

Between 8 and 10 percent of nursing home residents have been the victims of some type of nursing home abuse or neglect within the past year. Tragically, nursing home abuse and neglect occurs every day in facilities across the U.S. and is responsible the deaths of thousands of elderly residents each...

The Delmar Garden’s West Nursing Home in St. Louis County is currently facing allegations of nursing home abuse after one of its residents was found with broken cheekbones. The family of an 86-year-old nursing home patient has recently come forward to allege that their elderly loved one was...