Nursing Home Abuse

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Posted: 6:28 PM Dec 12, 2007
Last Updated: 10:12 PM Dec 12, 2007

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A Florida Senate committee heard horror stories Wednesday about understaffed nursing homes at the Capitol. Maria Sanchez testified before the Health Regulation Committee.

She put 87-year-old mother in a nursing home last year. Her mother fell down and broke her hip.

When Sanchez demanded answers, she couldn’t find out any information about who owned the nursing home.

“We are not respecting their rights as citizens and as human beings. We’re denying them a voice. When they’re checking into the nursing home, we’re making them invisible.”

Several trade groups, including trial lawyers, are calling for new laws to fully disclose which companies actually own nursing homes.

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Posted by: Jan Location: Kentucky on Dec 13, 2007 at 04:48 PM
Nursing homes are being bought by large health care corporation and then taken down to bare bones as far as spending for day to day operations and adequate staffing. Unless we continue to demand transparency regarding nursing home ownership and profits, our loved ones will continue to suffer while the CEOs continue to live large. These people should be tried for abuse and murder and be imprisoned. Why are we allowing them to continue to thrive off the suffering of our frail elderly? Absolutely unacceptable!