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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has committed to carving out nearly $40 million from the city’s budget to redesign Brooklyn’s McGuinness Boulevard, site of eleven pedestrian deaths and three cyclist deaths since 1995. According to StreetsBlog, a single 1.25-mile stretch of McGuinness Boulevard, from the Pulaski Bridge to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, has been […]
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Casa Promesa: Bronx Nursing Home Cited for Accidents, Infection
Casa Promesa has received 18 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 4, 2021. The facility has also received $4,000 in fines since 2019. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five surveys by state inspectors. […]
Boy Scouts Discloses Local Council Assets In Child Sex Abuse Case
The Boy Scouts of America’s local councils possess a total of roughly $3.3 billion in combined net assets, according to court filings described in a recent report by NBC. The disclosure followed arguments by attorneys representing victims of child sex abuse in the Boy Scouts that without information on the local councils’ assets, they would be unable […]
Palatine Nursing Home Cited for Medication Errors, Infection Control
Palatine Nursing Home received 29 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 26, 2022. The Palatine Bridge nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
Fishkill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Pressure Ulcer Care
Fishkill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 29 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 20, 2021. The Beacon nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following:
Horizon Care Center Cited for Accident Hazards
Horizon Care Center has received 15 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 12, 2021. The Arverne nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of two surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
Delhi Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Cited for Medication Errors
Delhi Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has received 35 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 12, 2021. The facility additionally received a $2,000 in 2020. The Delhi nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state […]
Kirkhaven: Nursing Home Cited for Accident, Infection Hazards
Kirkhaven has received 25 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 7, 2021. The Rochester nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following:
Delmar Center for Rehabilitation Citations & Lawsuits
Delmar Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Medication Errors Delmar Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 81 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 7, 2021. The facility has additionally received two fines totaling $20,000 since 2013. […]
New York Safe Streets Activists Propose New Road Safety Legislation
Earlier this month a group of safe-streets lobbying groups in New York released the Crash Victims Rights and Safety Act, a collection of eight pieces of legislation “that will better support victims of traffic violence and make streets safer across New York State at a moment when traffic fatalities and speeding are both on the rise,” according […]
New York Nursing Home Comprehensive Rehab & Nursing Center at Williamsville Cited for Failure to Prevent Infections & Accidents
Comprehensive Rehab and Nursing Center at Williamsville has received 115 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on April 21, 2021. It has also received seven fines totaling $79,000 since 2011. The Williamsville nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 11 inspections by state surveyors. […]
Insurance Company Would Pay $650 Million in Boy Scouts Sexual Abuse Claims
The Associated Press reported last week on a new development in the Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy proceedings: The Hartford, an insurance company, has said it will pay a sum of $650 million into a settlement trust for child sexual abuse victims who have filed claims against the Boy Scouts. The Hartford will in turn be released […]
Tolstoy Foundation Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Medication Errors
Tolstoy Foundation Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has received 49 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on April 16, 2021. The Valley Cottage nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of two inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
Wesley Gardens Corporation Fined $16,000, Cited for Medication Errors
Wesley Gardens Corporation received 75 citations for violations of public health laws between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 1, 2021. The facility has also received three fines since 2016, totaling $16,000, over findings of health code violations. The Rochester nursing home’s citations resulted from a […]
Creekview Nursing and Rehab Center: $62,000 in Fines, Pressure Ulcer Citation
Creekview Nursing and Rehab Center received 119 citations for violations of public health laws between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 1, 2021. The facility has also received seven fines since 2013, totaling $62,000, over findings of health code violations. The Rochester nursing home’s citations resulted […]
Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home Cited for Infection Control Lapses
Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home received 15 citations for violations of public health laws between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 1, 2021. The Brooklyn nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of two inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
Pelham Parkway Nursing Care Cited for Sexual Abuse
Pelham Parkway Nursing Care and Rehabilitation Facility received 25 citations for violations of public health laws between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 26, 2021. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the […]
New Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against Former Catholic Bishop in Albany
A recently filed lawsuit alleges that Howard Hubbard, a retired Catholic bishop in Albany, molested “an 11-year-old boy at a carnival more than 40 years ago,” according to the New York Post, which notes that this is the seventh lawsuit alleging that the former clergyman committed abuse. The new lawsuit, filed anonymously, alleges that when the […]
Salamanca Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
Salamanca Rehabilitation & Nursing Center has received received 68 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on March 19, 2021. The Salamanca nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home […]
The Eleanor Nursing Care Center: Accident, Infection Citations
The Eleanor Nursing Care Center has received received 48 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on March 12, 2021, as well as two fines totaling $12,000 between 2016 and 2017. The Hyde Park nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of seven surveys by state […]
Chestnut Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center: Pressure Ulcer Citations
Chestnut Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has received received 38 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on March 38, 2021. The Oneonta nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
New York Nursing Home The Villages of Orleans Health & Rehabilitation Center Cited for Abuse
The Villages of Orleans Health and Rehabilitation Center has received received 68 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to health records accessed on March 12, 2021, as well as two fines totaling $30,000 between 2018 and 2020. The Albion nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 17 surveys […]
Saratoga Center for Rehab and Skilled Nursing Care: Infection, Pressure Ulcer Citations
Saratoga Center for Rehab and Skilled Nursing Care has received 88 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 5, 2021, as well as four fines totaling $36,000 since 2014. The Ballston Spa nursing home’s citations resulted from a total […]
The Pearl Nursing Center of Rochester: 121 Health Citations Since 2017
The Pearl Nursing Center of Rochester has received 121 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 28, 2020, as well as four fines totaling $20,000 since 2011. The Rochester nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 11 surveys […]
Robinson Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center: Pressure Ulcer, Infection Citations
Robinson Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center suffered 15 confirmed and 7 presumed COVID-19 deaths as of February 28, 2021, according to state records. The facility has also received 46 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 12, 2020, as […]
