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Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identifies 59-year-old Euclid man found dead in freezing cold

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office released the identity of a man found dead in the freezing cold Wednesday morning behind a Euclid school. Alan Anderson, Jr., 59, of Euclid, left a rehabilitation center some time late Tuesday or early W… Read More
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$3.4 Million Medicaid Fraud Inquiry Hovers Over Nursing Home Where Comatose Woman Was Raped and Had Baby

State investigators in Arizona are examining $3.4 million in possible Medicaid fraud at the parent company of a Phoenix nursing center where a woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth to a boy in December, according to court records. The… Read More

Vendor’s honesty helped unravel $19M American Senior Communities fraud

The massive American Senior Communities fraud case might never have come to light were it not for a nearly century-old Indianapolis company that had a chance to participate in the overbilling and kickback scheme but called the FBI instead. IBJ’s re… Read More
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Police Collect DNA From Nursing Home Workers After Rape of Patient in Coma

The police collected the DNA of male employees of a private nursing home in Arizona this week as they broadened the investigation into allegations that a woman in a vegetative state there who gave birth to a child last month had been sexually assault… Read More

The Civil Justice System: Protecting Your Family

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2 ex-nursing home workers get jail for elderly woman's death

(AP) Two former employees of an Ohio nursing home accused of failing to check on a resident who wandered outside and froze to death have been sentenced to 60 days in jail. The Courier reports 37-year-old Rachel Friesel and 20-year-old Destini Fenbert… Read More

2 sent to jail for roles in nursing home patient’s death

OTTAWA — Family members of a 76-year-old woman who froze to death last winter outside a Pandora nursing home spoke Friday morning at separate sentencings for two former nursing home workers. “… No one was there to help her,” said Steve Campbe… Read More
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Plea deal offered in Pandora nursing home death

OTTAWA — The final nursing employee charged in the death of a resident in January appeared in the Putnam County Court of Common Pleas Thursday for a final pre-trial hearing before facing a jury trial. Megan E. Schnipke, 31, of Columbus Grove, was m… Read More
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‘It’s Almost Like a Ghost Town.’ Most Nursing Homes Overstated Staffing for Years

ITHACA, N.Y. — Most nursing homes had fewer nurses and caretaking staff than they had reported to the government for years, according to new federal data, bolstering the long-held suspicions of many families that staffing levels were often inadequa… Read More
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Why court battle waged by families of Anthony Sowell victims matters to us all: Andrea Simakis

CLEVELAND, Ohio – On September 17, Joanne Moore will get her day in court. “It’s taken so long,” she says. Eight years. But it’s worth the wait. Because it’s for Janice. In a 2010 lawsuit, Moore argued cops and pro… Read More

The Ohio Supreme Court has only considered two (2) cases that involved the rights of nursing home residents and I was involved in both cases.

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