On another note, a death at
New Vanderbilt Rehabilitation and Care Center,
the link is here: (This article is about the woman and her life, but does not mention what she died from).
Link: click these words
Friday, April 11, 2008
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.
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?
****
******(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.
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.
Calling All Genuine, Honest Politicians
Now is the time for all politicians, yes all, to become united on the issues of nursing homes reform. There are too many young and old people that are living in nursing homes and that are being mistreated, neglected and handled with a lack of care.
There are too many deaths in these nursing homes and there are too many people turning into vegetables due to the quality of care in some of these rehabilitation and care facilities.
Residents, patients and relatives need to be able to make complaints anonymously and those complaints need to be checked out thoroughly without warning the nursing homes that they are coming in to inspect the place.
Too many nursing home residents and patients are in agony and yet they still are too terrified to make legitimate complaints in order to achieve a better quality of life.
Where is the help for these old and young people?
If you are a politician or if you have any kind of government job or hold any office, we beg you to begin to change the laws that govern rehabilitation and care centers
and nursing homes.
We beg you to help protect those young and old people that are inside of these nursing homes.
For Whom the bell tolls...it tolls for the seniors now and in the future, the young people of today will be tomorrow's seniors.
Please, please unite today and join against these unscrupulous nursing homes and rehabilitation and care centers that are doing harm to their patients, relatives and to the residents.
Read news stories about rehab centers and about nursing homes here at our blog. Help us bring the news to the front pages of the net.
To the public:
We seek your input, your opinion, write to us today--write confidentially. All emails will be answered.
There are too many deaths in these nursing homes and there are too many people turning into vegetables due to the quality of care in some of these rehabilitation and care facilities.
Residents, patients and relatives need to be able to make complaints anonymously and those complaints need to be checked out thoroughly without warning the nursing homes that they are coming in to inspect the place.
Too many nursing home residents and patients are in agony and yet they still are too terrified to make legitimate complaints in order to achieve a better quality of life.
Where is the help for these old and young people?
If you are a politician or if you have any kind of government job or hold any office, we beg you to begin to change the laws that govern rehabilitation and care centers
and nursing homes.
We beg you to help protect those young and old people that are inside of these nursing homes.
For Whom the bell tolls...it tolls for the seniors now and in the future, the young people of today will be tomorrow's seniors.
Please, please unite today and join against these unscrupulous nursing homes and rehabilitation and care centers that are doing harm to their patients, relatives and to the residents.
Read news stories about rehab centers and about nursing homes here at our blog. Help us bring the news to the front pages of the net.
To the public:
We seek your input, your opinion, write to us today--write confidentially. All emails will be answered.
Friday, April 4, 2008
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:
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.
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