Pennsylvania Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing Home Abuse News in the State of
Pennsylvania:
December 8, 2005
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Pennsylvania Nursing Home Death Investigated "
A 70-year-old woman died in a nursing home in Pennsylvania over the weekend and authorities are investigating whether the nursing home may have been at fault or not. The woman passed away after overdosing on her medicine at the Laurel Crest nursing home, Cambria County, PA's public nursing home.
The unnamed woman was a resident at the facility for several months. President Commissioner PJ Stevens said that the licensed nurse who administered the dose notified authorities that she had given an overdose and that it was an incorrect amount. The unnamed nurse has been suspended with pay until the investigation into the incident is complete.
During unusual deaths, officials at Laurel Crest are required to notify the district attorney and coroner's offices, and the state Department of Health and the Area Agency on Aging, which they did. District Attorney Davie Tulowitszki reported that an investigation is underway to determine if any crime had been committed in the case.
The exact cause of death may take up to eight weeks to determine.
The Department of Health will look into the nursing home's procedures during the case and the training history of the facility's employees and safety procedures.
In 1999 another patient at Laurel Crest, 81-year-old Estelle Helsel, died under mysterious circumstances. An investigation turned up wrongdoing by the facility and several criminal charges were looked into and employees fired.
May 20, 2005
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Pa. DA investigates nursing home abuse allegations"
The Beaver County, Pa. District Attorney's Office is investigating allegations of physical and mental nursing home abuse. According to officials, former employees of the Beaver Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center reported that in one incident a supervisor drew caricatures of patients and then made fun of them after offering the nursing home residents frozen bagels.
A spokesperson for the nursing home's parent company said that they, alongside other agencies, are investigating the allegations of nursing home abuse, but so far no harm to residents has been revealed. Three nursing home employees are currently suspended.
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June
24, 2003
"Pennsylvania nursing home abuse stories shock law
enforcement"
Director of Temple University’s Institute on Older Adult Protective
Services Ronald Costen has been trying to better alert law enforcement
officials and social workers of the high incidence of nursing home
abuse that occurs in Pennsylvania as well as across the nation.
The group was appalled at the slides shown of nursing home abuse
victims. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services Inc. Area
Agency on Aging has been trying to encourage law officials to reduce
the high number of Pennsylvania nursing home abuse instances. Contact
us for more information on nursing home abuse.
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