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Gowanda Rehabilitation & Nursing Center received 28 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 14, 2021. The Long Beach nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
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Park Avenue Extended Care Facility: Pressure Ulcer Citation
Park Avenue Extended Care Facility received 14 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 14, 2021. The Long Beach nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
Pinnacle Multicare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Cited for Abuse
Pinnacle Multicare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center received 18 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 6, 2021. The Rye nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
Staten Island Files Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Boy Scouts, Church
A Staten Island man has sued the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Staten Island Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Westerleigh, Staten Island, and the Archdiocese of New York allegations a Scout leader sexually abused him in the late 1970s, when […]
Study: SUVS May Be Connected to Rising Pedestrian Deaths
A new study published in the journal Economics of Transportation finds that the rise of “light trucks”—SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks—in the US may be correlated with increases in pedestrian deaths from traffic crashes. According to a report by StreetsBlog, the study found that “as the number of SUVs on the street tripled from 2000 to 2019, pedestrian […]
Eddy Village Green at Beverwyck Cited for Infection Control Lapse
Eddy Village Green at Beverwyck received 15 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on July 30, 2021. The Slingerlands nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following:
Child Sex Abuse Survivors Sue New York Boy Scouts Council, Churches
A pair of child sex abuses against the Boy Scouts have been filed under the Child Victims Act in New York’s Chautauqua County, according to a recent report by the Observer. The Child Victims Act is a law allowing survivors of sexual abuse sue their abusers even in cases where the statute of limitation has passed. […]
Our Lady of Mercy Life Center Cited for Accidents, Med Errors
Our Lady of Mercy Life Center received 10 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on July 30, 2021. The Guilderland nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following:
Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center: Choking Citation
Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center received 20 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on July 24, 2021. The Montgomery nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The […]
New NYC Bill Would Increase Penalties for E-Bike Hit-and-Runs
New York State Senator Liz Krueger, who represents the Upper East Side of Manhattan, has introduced a bill that would “make it a felony for electric-vehicle riders to crash into someone and leave the scene,” according to a report by Steetsblog. The bill joins another proposal by State Senator Brad Hoylman of the Upper West Side which would […]
New York Nursing Home Eddy Village Green Cited for Elopement
Eddy Village Green received 22 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on July 15, 2021. The facility has also received four fines totaling $22,000 since 2016. The Cohoes nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four inspections by state […]
Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center Cited for Sexual Abuse
Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center received 27 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on July 16, 2021. The facility has also received three fines totaling $22,000 since 2014. The Albany nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six inspections […]
Valley View Manor Nursing Home Cited for Abuse
Valley View Manor Nursing Home received 27 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 5, 2022. The Norwich nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 5 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: Valley View […]
Women Are Afraid of Walking in Cities Because of Sexual Assault, Study Shows
A new study examining the gendered nature of urban design, published by Leading Cities, found that the risk of sexual assault disproportionately prevents women from walking around their cities. According to the study, 30% of women respondents said they either “always” or “very frequently” avoid walking around their cities because of fear, instead choosing other modes of transportation. […]
Boy Scouts and Child Sex Abuse Victims Agree on $850 Million Fund
A long-sought agreement between the Boy Scouts of America and attorneys representing tens of thousands of survivors of child sex abuse would create an $850 million compensation fund for the victims. According to a report on the agreement by the Associated Press, this agreement “would mark one of the largest sums in U.S. history involving cases of sexual abuse.” The restructuring […]
Midway Nursing Home in Queens, NY Cited for Abuse
Midway 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 July 2, 2021. The Maspeth nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home […]
Alice Hyde Medical Center: Elopement, Infection Citations
Alice Hyde Medical Center has received 40 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 25, 2021. The facility has also received $26,000 in fines, according to those records. The Malone nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four […]
Ex-Boy Scouts Sue Staten Island Council, NY Archdiocese for Sex Abuse
A lawsuit recently filed in Staten Island, New York by 28 former Boy Scouts alleges that the Boy Scouts’ Staten Island Council and the Archdiocese of New York recruited boys to join the organization, where they were sexually abused. According to a report by the Staten Island Advance, the lawsuit alleges the abuse against the young Boy Scouts […]
New York Gov. Cuomo Signs Nursing Home Staffing Law
Legislation signed this month by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will establish new staffing mandates for nursing homes and hospitals in the state. Under the new law, which will take effect in January 2022, nursing homes will be required to “meet a minimum daily average of 3 1/2 hours of nursing care per resident,” according […]
Boy Scouts Propose New Settlement with Child Sex Abuse Victims
Last week the Boy Scouts of America announced in a proposal filed with its bankruptcy court in Delaware that it hopes to reach a settlement agreement in the near future with attorneys representing child sex abuse victims who have filed claims against the group. According to the New York Post, the Boy Scouts proposed placing assets worth $250 […]
NYC Devotes $39 Million to End Car Crashes on McGuinness Boulevard
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 […]
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:
