PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) - Lisa White said she got a call earlier this month from her brother that made her heart drop. “Dad’s missing and I said, how can he be missing, he’s in a nursing home?” she said. White said the staff found her father, Mr. Hayden Thorne, right behind ManorCare, his nursing home […]
A former worker in the Wood Glen Alzheimer’s Community in Miami Twp. was indicted Thursday for beating an elderly patient who died two months later. Vanesha A. Rice, 24, was indicted by a grand jury for a Jan. 25, 2019, incident of patient abuse, a fourth-degree felony. Rice, of Dayton, has been issued a summons […]
Current and former employees of an Ohio nursing facility are accused of mistreating two patients in their care, including one who died as a result of the nurses' actions, Attorney General Dave Yost said Thursday. A Franklin County grand jury indicted seven people who worked as nurses in 2017 at Whetstone Gardens and Care Center […]
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 Wednesday and was found dead hours later about two miles away, according to Euclid police. Staff at […]
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 review of recent court filings and its interviews with federal prosecutors and the FBI bring […]
(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, both of Pandora, were sentenced Friday in northern Ohio's Ottawa County. They pleaded […]
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 Campbell, the son of Phyllis Campbell, a patient who died after walking out of […]
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 met by two rows of the family of Phyllis J. Campbell, the […]
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 inadequate. The records for the first time reveal frequent and significant fluctuations in day-to-day staffing, with particularly […]
