June, 2008

We are happy to hear from you regarding your own experiences in nursing homes and rehab centers. Whether you are a patient, resident, staff or visitor, we welcome you to communicate with us.

Hello and glad that you are here with us today. We are hoping that you will and do participate in this forum. It is all about reform, and changing things for the better inside of horrible rehabilitation and care centers and inside of horrible nursing homes. There are some things that need to be changed also, in some of the so-called good nursing homes.

Know this--that if you are undecided as to whether to go to live in a nursing home or not, kindly reconsider even thinking about it. Many of our friends, relatives, co-workers and associates have family members in some of them and they are almost all dissatisfied with the care, lack of care, the treatment and everything related to the bad homes and rehab centers.

This does not come out on the front pages of the news because it appears that the Directors of Social Work and the Administrators inside the horrible places, do their best and use their powers to keep everything QUIET, and to keep things out of the news.

Recently this past year, a lady actually left a nursing home , just walked out the front door of one, in one rehab and care center, and she got all the way to the Staten Island Ferry and not one employee noticed that she was even missing. How does that happen? It happens because the Administration and owners of nursing homes and those kinds of places are more interested in making money, in keeping money than they are interested in making things safe, clean and acceptable for residents and visitors there.

Yes, you did not see that incident on the news because it was hushed up and it happened right there in your own Staten Island community.


Then, months later, at another Staten Island nursing home, a resident was found on the ground after supposedly jumping from a sixth floor window. No one noticed this resident was gone until the body was discovered. Yes, right there in Staten Island. Fortunately this incident, this deadly incident was permitted to be put in the newspapers. Fortunately reporters got to the scene before any one could hush this one up.


Pass the word around. MOST , yes, MOST nursing homes and most rehab and care centers are focusing their attention on making money, getting money from Medicaid and Medicare and getting money from private payments rather than focusing their efforts and staff on keeping residents and visitors safe.

THis is your news flash for the month of June, 2008 .


We would like your input today; kindly leave a note to help ALL residents of all nursing homes around the world. Do you have a mom or dad? DO you have children? Then you need to participate here because these things affect you and your family and your heirs.

Pope Benedict and nursing homes

Pure Opinion

(When we remember that pure opinion is just someone's opinion, which they are fully entitled to, then we will remember that this post is legitimate, honest, and right to the point).


Pope Benedict:

The Pope planned, along with his entourage, a huge Birthday Bash for himself. They planned it good, covered everything that they thought should have been covered, and went and put it into action, for what would have been the largest, celebration, birthday bash in this country --for many years to come.

That's the way it all went down, but this is the way that I would have liked it to happen, but no one asked me, so I save my pure opinion for here, for this page.

We would have liked to see the Pope, Pope Benedict:

• Gather all the children and teens into the Great meadow of Central Park and hear them out,listen to them, listen to their stories of how they live, where they are in their lives and what they plan to do for the rest of their lives.
• Meet and great the real people of the USA, not just the rich or priviledged few thousand that were given that honor by an unseen, unheard of lottery.
• Gather all the politicians, Congressmen and women, Senators, and everyone who is anyone in government and taken them on midnight raids into nursing homes in Staten Island and the rest of New York. We would have liked the Pope to see what is happening to people in NY --that are the same age and younger than he is, himself.
• We would have liked to see the Pope leave his 40-people entourage at home, and just come as "himself", to NY, to Washington, to the USA, as the chosen representative of Jesus Christ, and we would have liked to see him approach the podium and tell everyone that they, yes they, are the true representatives of Jesus Christ, while he is the representative of the Church (The Catholic Church), and tell them that as representatives of the true Jesus Christ, they have a duty to love people, to keep Jesus in their lives and to do good, choose good over choosing evil.

We would have liked to see the Pope do all of those things, but he didn't do it. There are so many things and so many actions that we would have liked the Pope to do and to take while he in the United States, yet, we didn't see him do these things.

So what does that mean?

It means that we, as a people, as a nation, as society, we, need to do these things for ourselves.

Calling all government officials, we need your help and we need your assistance in getting raids for the nursing homes that are harming people, that are treating people with no dignity, and those rehabilitation and care centers who are harming both residents, patients and families. We need to see this happen in our lifetime. We need the government to step in and to rescue these seniors from the clutches of rehab centers that do nothing but make people into vegetables and then take all their money, their medicaid and their everything they earned in their lifetimes.

We need government to step in and stop those offending rehab centers and nursing homes in the USA, specifically in Staten Island, NY, USA.

Rate Your Nursing Homes & Rehab Centers

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).

Resident Jumps from Own Window in Nursing Home in Staten Island, NY

Staten Island Incident:

Here is the website. Nursing home resident jumped from her window. What brought this on?


What made this woman jump out the window?

Was this really a suicide?
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******(The news says "apparent suicide" -it does not say that it definitely was determined to be a suicide).


Stories like this, above -- true stories, tell us more than ever that we need nursing home reforms.


All around the country, nursing home residents are dying in different ways. Some die because they could not survive the bedsores they obtain in different rehab centers and nursing homes. Others die from falls, while still others die deaths like that one listed above.

Yet, where is the public outcry for more and better supervision, more and better health care inside of these places?

We need investigators to go into all nursing homes at random, consistently and constantly during the year. Investigators should interview all residents and take anonymous complaints of any problems if there are any.

Nursing homes alert: Do you know someone in a rehab and care center or nursing home?

If you check the news or the web, most of the alerts about nursing homes were written years ago. We need updates and we need our politicians and other community members to get after the nursing homes and the rehab and care centers that are providing bad care to our family members, friends and other relatives.

If you know someone who is in a nursing home now or if you know someone who was in one in the past, you have the power to change things for the better.

Leave us a note and you have the power to change the world for the better.

All emails will be answered.
There is a union of patients, residents and family members that will help you register complaints anonymously in the future. That will stop the rehab and care centers and nursing homes from stopping legitimate complaints.

In the past, when residents or patients registered complaints, what happened was most times, there were punishments for patients and for family members who made legitimate complaints.

Now the union of patients and residents and family members will aid you in making complaints and making your legitmate complaints anonymously in the future.

There is more than one group that is now forming (and some have formed already in your own neighborhoods). Here are some details:

• All you need is an email address to participate.
• Interviews are free and can be over the phone or by email.
• Some interviews will be in person but not at the nursing home or rehab and care center.
• You anonymity will be protected. Your information will not be shared with anyone against your will.

If you have gripes about a rehab and care center or a nursing home, contact us as soon as possible.

(Note, there are no fees; no one will ask you for any money at all; there is no registration process).

These groups are forming and have been formed for your protection and for the protection of people inside of rehabilitation and care centers and inside of nursing homes.

There are many good nursing homes; you just need to know which ones they are. By sharing information about rehab and care centers that are horrible , you will be helping someone and you will be saving a life one day.

If you have a bad or good experience in any area of rehab or nursing homes, we urge you to send us your information and help this country change these things for the better.

Please write to us and email us so that you can change things for the better. Thank you for reading.