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An April order by the Appellate Division, Second Department upheld a Suffolk County Supreme Court’s finding of summary judgment for the plaintiffs in a Long Island personal injury case. In February of 2007, the plaintiff, a Nassau County police officer, was responding to an alarm at the defendant’s summer house. At the time that the […]
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Queens (NYC) Nursing Director Arrested for Failing to Report Lost Resident and Falsification of Records
According to the NY Daily News, Juliet Clifford, Director of Nursing Services at the Queens nursing home Bishop Charles Waldo Maclean Episcopal Nursing Home, has been arrested.The trouble began for Clifford when a seventy-four year old dementia patient eloped from the facility approximately two weeks ago. Authorities claim that Clifford failed to call 911 when […]
Fall Results In Fractured Hip: Brooklyn Nursing Home Cited for Actual Harm to Patient
After a survey conducted in February, 2013 at Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center, a Brooklyn, NY nursing home, the Department of Health issued a report finding actual harm to a resident. Actual harm is the second most severe rating grade that the DOH issues in its citations, surpassed only by Immediate Jeopardy. The Department […]
Chappaqua Teen Found to Have Been Texting During Fatal Crash
A New Windsor, NY judge has ruled that a teen was texting while driving, leading to a fatal accident that killed his nineteen year old friend, reports USA Today. The driver, also nineteen from Chappaqua, NY, claimed that he had fallen asleep at the wheel. The decedent’s family subpoenaed phone records from the driver during […]
Summary Judgment Affirmed for NYC Transit in Personal Injury Action
On May 1st, the Second Department affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of a defendant NYC bus in a personal injury case involving a fall. The plaintiff had sued for personal injury after falling inside the bus when the driver stopped short. The defendant, New York City Transit Authority, was granted summary judgment by […]
Closed Florida Nursing Home Had Been Opened by Convicted Felons
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is reporting that Harmony Healthcare Nursing Home, which had its doors shut in 2011, was opened and operated by two men convicted of Medicaid fraud in New York in 1979. The nursing home was closed amid findings of widespread immediate jeopardy to its residents. An investigation conducted by the newspaper found that […]
Nursing Home Aide Arrested for Secretly Photographing Resident
In a press release dated March 8 of this year, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the arrest of a Certified Nurse’s Aide from the Woodhaven Center in Port Jefferson, Long Island. The Suffolk County nursing home staffer was accused of taking a picture of the resident’s genitals without the resident’s permission. Having taken […]
Aides at Tarrytown Hall Care Center Arrested: Charged With Endangering the Welfare of a Vulnerable Elderly Person
In an October 24, 2012 press release, New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, announced the arrests of two Certified Nurse Aides (“C.N.A.) at Tarrytown Hall Care Center. The aides, Maureen Flowers and Donna Pagan, allegedly caused the death of an elderly resident by failing to provide an appropriate transfer and covering up the crime. […]
Brooklyn Nursing Home Fails to Keep Drug Regimen Free from Unnecessary Drugs
Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, a nursing home located in Brooklyn, NY, was cited by the Department of Health in a December, 2012 deficiency report for several violations of the Code of Federal Regulations. Among these failures was the facility’s duty to keep a resident’s drug regimen free from unnecessary drugs. In relevant excerpts […]
Elderly Alzheimer’s Patient Reportedly Abused at Gold Crest Care Center in Bronx, NY
A certified nurse’s aide at Bronx nursing home, Gold Crest Care Center, was recently arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a physically disabled person and three counts of willfully violating the Public Health Law. She was reportedly caught on video abusing an elderly resident who suffers from Alzheimer’s DIsease. According to the Office […]
Westchester Meadows Nursing Home Cited for Failure to Prevent Resident Wandering in Valhalla, NY
Department of Health Citation for Wandering and Safety Failures Westchester Meadows, a closed nursing home based in Valhalla, NY, drew a deficient rating from the Department of Health in a certification survey dated June of last year. The Department found that the facility failed to keep the resident environment as free of accident hazards as […]
Spring Creek Rehab Receives Citation For Failing to Treat Bedsores
Brooklyn nursing home Spring Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center made news in September of last year when the Department of Health cited it for failure to prevent and/or heal bedsores (sometimes called pressure sores, pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers). The finding involved one resident, with the DOH noting that the failure created the potential […]
Nursing Home Administrator Fired Over Alleged Sexual Abuse of 91 Year-Old Resident
The administrator of Loudonville Nursing Home in upstate New York has been fired as a result of a sexual abuse charge levied against a maintenance worker at the home. Investigators claim that the worker sexually assaulted a 91 year old woman while in her room. The maintenance worker faces felony sexual abuse charges, and the […]
What is Sepsis? Is There a Relationship Between Sepsis and Bedsores?
According to Mayo Clinic, sepsis is a serious complication of an infection that can be life-threatening. Sepsis occurs when your body releases chemicals into the bloodstream to fight an infection. These chemicals, in turn, trigger inflammation throughout the body that can lead to organ failure. It is important to determine the source of the infection […]
Resident Chokes to Death at Morris Park Nursing Home in the Bronx
A Bronx long-term-care facility, Morris Park Nursing Home, was recently cited and fined $10,000.00 by the New York State Department of Health. The citation and fine are the result of an incident where a 68 year-old resident choked to death during dinner. Under state and federal law, nursing homes must ensure that the resident environment […]
Second Department Affirms Plaintiff’s Summary Judgment in Nassau County Car Accident Action
On November 14, 2012, the Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the Supreme Court’s finding of summary judgment for the plaintiff in an automobile collision action from Nassau County. The facts surrounding the case are simple. The plaintiff’s vehicle was stopped when it was struck from behind by the defendant’s vehicle. Quoting Volpe v. […]
New York Nursing Home Abuse Attorney Report: Recent MCFU Enforcement Actions Involving Nursing Home Abuse
Below please find a brief summary of various enforcement actions taken against New York nursing home personnel from 12/15/11 to 3/15/12 by the NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General. Last December two Registered Nurses at Glen Island Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in New Rochelle, NY were indicted by the Medicaid Fraud Unit. Marlon […]
Brooklyn Judge Arrested for DWI
A Brooklyn Supreme Court justice was arrested last week in upstate New York on suspicion of drunk driving. According to the NY Post, the judge failed a roadside sobriety test and also refused to agree to a blood test. The judge has a court date set for later this month. The Post did not provide […]
Mother Sues after 7 Year Old Almost Dies from Medication Mix-Up
A mother in the Bronx is suing her local pharmacy after it mistakenly provided her seven year old son with Methadone instead of his prescribed Ritalin. The Post reports that the two drugs have been confused before by pharmacies, because they look alike and have somewhat similar names (Ritalin is also known as methylphenidate). Medication […]
Driver Acquitted in Death of Bicyclist
Earlier today, a US postal worker was acquitted of leaving the scene of an accident. His truck struck and killed a bicyclist last summer. The postal worker, Ian Clement, claims to have felt something under his tire. He pulled over to wait for someone to approach his vehicle; when no one did he drove off. […]
Department of Health Comparative Study: Queens (NYC) Nursing Home Residents with Bedsores (Pressure Ulcers)
From time to time the Department of Health issues quality comparisons for nursing homes in specific areas of care. One such area is percent of residents at high risk for pressure sores who have pressure sores. This particular survey was conducted in Queens between January and September of 2010. For the time period in question, […]
Homicide Charges Dismissed in Long Island DWI Case
A Suffolk County judge has dismissed all charges that had been pending against a teenager in Long Island following a crash that led to the death of a passenger in his car. The accident occurred in the Hamptons last year, and was at first suspected to be a DWI. The DWI charge was dropped when […]
Limits on Prescription Painkillers?
The New York Times is reporting that a group of approximately thirty-five doctors have signed a petition to the Food and Drug Administration, asking that more stringent regulations be placed on the prescription of pain-killers. The doctors’ impetus for the petition is to curb abuse of the drugs. In the petition, the physicians ask that […]
Notice of Claim Against New York City in Bronx Zoo Crash
In April of this year, a minivan carrying a family jumped a barrier on the Bronx River Parkway and plummeted over the side, into the Bronx Zoo. Seven family members were killed in the crash, leaving behind mourning loved ones. The husband of one of the victims of this crash has filed a notice of […]
LPN At Benenson Pavilion Sentenced For Physical Abuse Of Queens Nursing Home Resident
Jessie Joiner, a Licensed Practical Nurse (“LPN”) at Dr. William O. Benenson Pavilion, a Queens Nursing Home, was recently sentenced to three years probation and forced to surrender her LPN license. She allegedly knocked an 85-year old female resident out of her wheelchair and onto the floor at the facility. The resident suffered a fractured […]
