A few days ago, a woman filed a complaint in Kanawha County against Genesis Healthcare seeking compensation for the injuries she sustained while she was staying at the company's New Martinsville Healthcare Center west of Charleston. Her complaint states that the injuries were caused by nursing home negligence.
According to documents filed in Kanawha Circuit Court, the woman lived in the facility from December 16 of 2010 until July 27 of 2011.
Continue reading Woman files negligence claim against Charleston nursing home
We read this morning of a case of nursing home negligence in which an elderly, frail woman lost her most precious possession: her life. Though the case is far from Charleston, the news that the woman's family prevailed in court is well worth sharing.
The 88-year-old Pueblo, Colorado, woman had been taken to a nursing home two years ago after she had broken both of her ankles.
Continue reading Jury: Nursing home negligence proven in woman's death
A woman suspected her elderly grandfather was being abused in a nursing home, but she had no way of proving it. The frail, 101-year-old man was unable to speak, so she decided to contact a private investigator to see if he could uncover what was going on in the nursing home 500 miles south of Charleston.
The PI wasn't sure if he could legally hide a camera in the man's room at the home, so he consulted with an attorney beforehand. After receiving the green light, the PI surreptiously hid a camera in the resident's room. The camera caught images of a nursing home employee hitting the centarian and taunting him.
Continue reading Eye on nursing home abuse: Investigator uncovers evidence
About 110 miles south of Charleston sits Gary, West Virginia, along the Tug Fork River. The town of less than 1,000 residents is where a nursing home resident is pursuing a claim of nursing home negligence against a facility there.
The man was admitted to the nursing home in late 2007, when he was 77 years old. Dementia had robbed him of his ability to handle his own affairs, a Kanawha Circuit Court complaint states.
Continue reading West Virgina nursing home resident alleges neglect
You might recall a recent ruling in a Kanawha County nursing home negligence case in which there was a jury verdict of $91.5 million. A Kanawha County judge recently ruled that the award was appropriate in order to punish the owner of the home for deliberately understaffing homes in order boost profits.
The case involved an 87-year-old woman who died of dehydration in 2009 after she was at one of the Charleston facilities a mere 19 days. Her son filed a lawsuit that pointed out that she had suffered head trauma at the nursing home from repeated falls and that she had developed sores in her mouth as well.
Continue reading West Virginia courts rule in nursing home cases
A nursing home in West Virginia is being sued for nursing home negligence that allegedly contributed to injuries suffered by a 77-year old resident. The resident claims to have suffered emotional trauma, pressure sores, malnutrition and infections as a result of his stay at the nursing home.
A number of business interests that apparently back the nursing home have been named as defendants in this lawsuit. All of the defendants are accused of breaching their duty to provide care for the resident and were said to be negligent in the control, management and operation of the nursing home.
South of us in Charleston, a nursing home has been fined over its failure to properly handle an allegation of sexual abuse by one of its employees.
The Florida nursing home was fined $36,000. A news report said that the state will typically level fines of $40,000 in the worst of these kinds of cases. An advocate for nursing home residents and families labeled this fine as a "considerable" one by Florida standards.
Should families be allowed to hide cameras in nursing home rooms to protect their loved ones from abuse? That's the question a state legislature far from West Virginia is wrestling with, news reports say.
Currently, Oklahoma nursing homes can each decide on whether or not to allow families to place hidden cameras in rooms to capture images of abuse. However, the state's senate is considering a bill that would allow families to put cameras in whenever they like -- but there is a catch.
If you drive due north of Charleston for a little more than 200 miles, you'll come to Lucas County, Ohio. That's where a woman was recently found guilty by a jury of nursing home abuse.
The 31-year-old former nurse's aide had been accused of abusing a patient in February of last year.
West Virginia families that have a loved one in a nursing home often take heart when they read of the fight to stop nursing home abuse. It helps to know that when bad things happen to society's vulnerable, good people will step up and fight.
That's what happened in Enid, Oklahoma, where a nursing home has been hit with a big fine: $1.3 million.
Continue reading Nursing home fined more than $1.3 million in sex offense case
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