Now, finally there is a site to rate your nursing homes. (SEE THE LINK to rate - in this message) Read the entire message before connecting with this link . Thank you).
Rate your nursing homes and rehabilitation centers by emailing us with
your details ; You can remain anonymous. Email onenewbeginning@yahoo.com
Do you have a relative in a nursing home or rehab center?
Are you presently living in a center?
Go to this site and post your own notes. Have your family and all their friends rate the place. This is one way to get the news out about the bad and the good nursing homes.
You can change the world just be giving your own opinion at
ALSO, leave your rating here in a note or by email. You can help seniors and young people by rating places.
Others will see your ratings and hopefully no one will choose to go to bad nursing homes or bad rehab centers.
Here is one more link (the other links are the same and this is one different link).
Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
What Happens when employees report?
The reason that CONGRESS needs to step in is because the employees who are witnessing the abuses, and malpractices -- when they step forward, they are penalyzed.
One nurse actually committed suicide because she reported abuse and the system went against her and told her to cover up the abuse.
Here is the article, and we quote:
To understand the stakes in this feud, it's useful to revisit the tragic death eight years ago of Mary Hochman, a 52-year-old night nurse at Beverly La Cumbre nursing home, a Santa Barbara affiliate of Beverly Enterprises for which Carlson served as California-based vice president of operations.
According to news accounts, Hochman walked onto a beach and shot herself in the heart after a months-long dispute with her employer. Her problems began when she tried to report that a nurse's aide had hit an 81-year-old man with dementia. According to Contra Costa Times reporter Carolyn McMillan, Hochman said in a sworn affidavit that she was told to cover up the information.
"If a nurse cannot protect her patients, I do not want to be a nurse," Hochman wrote in her suicide note. "This has taken all hope away from me."
Hochman's note, along with a journal detailing instances where she was told to cover up incidents of abuse and neglect, helped spur a federal raid on the nursing home. A subsequent investigation revealed patients suffering beatings and maggot-infested bedsores, culminating in a $2 million settlement against Beverly relating to preventable deaths. The investigation also spawned a dozen civil suits, according to press reports.
After the Hochman investigation and settlement, Beverly Enterprises sold off its nursing homes in California and Carlson took on his consulting role as head of the California Alliance for Nursing Home Reform
Check this website for the whole story.
One nurse actually committed suicide because she reported abuse and the system went against her and told her to cover up the abuse.
Here is the article, and we quote:
To understand the stakes in this feud, it's useful to revisit the tragic death eight years ago of Mary Hochman, a 52-year-old night nurse at Beverly La Cumbre nursing home, a Santa Barbara affiliate of Beverly Enterprises for which Carlson served as California-based vice president of operations.
According to news accounts, Hochman walked onto a beach and shot herself in the heart after a months-long dispute with her employer. Her problems began when she tried to report that a nurse's aide had hit an 81-year-old man with dementia. According to Contra Costa Times reporter Carolyn McMillan, Hochman said in a sworn affidavit that she was told to cover up the information.
"If a nurse cannot protect her patients, I do not want to be a nurse," Hochman wrote in her suicide note. "This has taken all hope away from me."
Hochman's note, along with a journal detailing instances where she was told to cover up incidents of abuse and neglect, helped spur a federal raid on the nursing home. A subsequent investigation revealed patients suffering beatings and maggot-infested bedsores, culminating in a $2 million settlement against Beverly relating to preventable deaths. The investigation also spawned a dozen civil suits, according to press reports.
After the Hochman investigation and settlement, Beverly Enterprises sold off its nursing homes in California and Carlson took on his consulting role as head of the California Alliance for Nursing Home Reform
Check this website for the whole story.
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