Troy Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls received 42 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 17, 2022. The Hoosick Falls nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include […]
Sexual Abuse
New York Nursing Home Collar City Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Cited for Medication Errors
Collar City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center received 65 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 10, 2022. The Troy nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 10 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Richmond Center: Nursing Home Cited for Abuse
Richmond Center for Rehabilitation and Specialty Healthcare received 30 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 10, 2022. The Staten Island nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: […]
New York Nursing Home Fulton Commons Care Center Cited for Sexual Abuse
Fulton Commons Care Center received 12 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 15, 2022. The East Meadows nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Cited for Sex Abuse
Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center has received 27 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 25, 2022. The Roosevelt Island nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the […]
Holliswood Center: Nursing Home Cited for Sexual Abuse
Holliswood Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare has received 11 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 11, 2022. The Hollis nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: […]
Westchester Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing: Sexual Abuse Citation
Westchester Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing has received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 11, 2022. It also received an $18,000 fines in 2021 in connection to quality of care deficiencies. The Mount Vernon nursing home’s citations […]
NYT Investigation Finds Thousands of Hidden Nursing Home Offenses
A shocking new investigation by the New York Times revealed extensive evidence that some of nursing homes’ most egregious rule violations, from infection control lapses to outright sexual assault, go undisclosed by the federal government even as state inspectors report them as putting residents in danger and breaching federal regulations.
Houghton Rehabilitation & Nursing Home in New York Cited for Sexual Abuse
Houghton Rehabilitation & Nursing Center has received 18 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to records accessed on December 4, 2021. It was also issued a $12,000 fine in 2016 over findings it violated sections of the health code relating to quality of care. The Houghton nursing home facility’s […]
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 […]
Pontiac Nursing Home Cited for Sexual Abuse
Pontiac Nursing Home has received 37 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 30, 2021. The facility has additionally received three fines totaling $46,000 since 2013. The Oswego nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by […]
Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Abuse, Medication Errors
Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 57 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 8, 2021. The facility has additionally received seven fines totaling $90,000 since 2008. The Syracuse nursing home’s citations resulted from a total […]
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 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 […]
Van Rensselaer Manor Cited for Sexual Abuse, Infection
Van Rensselaer Manor has received 27 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 5, 2020. The facility also received a 2020 fine of $2,000 in connection to findings in a 2019 inspection that it violated unspecified health code provisions. […]
Our Lady of Consolation Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Center Cited for Abuse
Our Lady of Consolation Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Center received 36 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 9, 2020. The West Islip nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe […]
Berkshire Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Cited for Pressure Ulcers
Berkshire Nursing & Rehabilitation Center received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 27, 2020. The West Babylon nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. […]
The Grand Pavilion for Rehab & Nursing at South Point Cited for Abuse
The Grand Pavilion for Rehab & Nursing at South Point received 32 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 20, 2020. The facility has also received two fines: one 2016 fine of $8,000 in connection to findings in a […]
The Enclave at Rye Cited over Abuse Allegation
The Enclave at Rye Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 34 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 29, 2019. The Port Chester nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe […]
Health Workers Fail to Alert Police of Suspected Elder Abuse
Elder abuse is a growing problem in America that often goes unreported. According to a recent article in NPR, healthcare workers and government regulators are failing to report cases of suspected elder abuse to local authorities. The article analyzes a recent report by the Office of Inspector General which found that despite evidence of abuse […]
$45 Million Lawsuit for Nursing Home Employee Who Impregnated Resident
The family of an incapacitated woman impregnated by a nursing home worker is seeking $45 million in damages relating to the brutal assault of their child. According to the lawsuit, medical exams show the incapacitated nursing home resident had been raped repeatedly over the course of two decades. In addition to the long-running sexual assaults, […]
Senator Warns of Severe Medicare Cuts for Nursing Homes
Victims of nursing home abuse and industry stakeholders gathered in Washington this month for a Senate hearing on the nursing home industry. In addition to hearing testimony from the families of nursing home abuse, the federal legislators sounded the alarm over a looming fight over Medicaid funding. According to Skilled Nursing News, the Trump administration […]
New York Trains Nursing Home Staffers to “Whistleblow” on Suspected Abuse
New York State is proactively training nursing home staff how to be “better whistleblowers” whenever nursing home abuse or neglect is suspected. Describing the training as “the first of its kind” across the country, The Buffalo News said the New York Department of Health trained nursing home workers on submitting reports with important details, which […]
Senate Holds Hearing on Nursing Home Abuse
The Senate Finance Committee examined the “crisis” of nursing home abuse in an emotional hearing this month. Families of abused nursing home patients told their tragic stories and frustrations with the lack of government oversight. In one of the testimonies before the Senators, Maya Fischer tearily detailed the sexual assault her mother suffered at a […]
Woman in Vegetative State Since 1993 Gives Birth, Nursing Home Staffer Arrested
The police have arrested a nurse who is reportedly responsible for sexually assaulting a nursing home resident who has been in a vegetative state since 1993. According to The New York Times, the nursing home resident and mother has been under the care of Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix since 1993, when she was only four-years-old. […]
