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		<title>Nursing Homes Administer Psych Drugs For No Reason</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/13600</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Tribune broke with an expose on how some powerful psychotropic medications are being administered to nursing home residents in Illinois without consent and without valid psychiatric diagnoses. Some of these elderly have suffered from a variety of adverse responses that include, said the Tribune, “tremors, dangerous lethargy, and a higher risk of harmful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Nursing Home Abuse Guilty Plea</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/11713</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a horrible report detailing an incident of nursing home abuse, LoHud wrote that a North Salem, New York nursing home aide tied an 83-year-old woman to her wheelchair with a bed sheet, deposited her in a common room, shut the lights out, and napped. The certified nurse’s aide napped for about one hour while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Rating Tool Launched</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/6508</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been following the widespread issue of nursing home abuse     for some time. Last year, the former Bush administration finally published the names of 131 of the nation’s worst nursing homes. Now, says the Wall Street Journal, the federal government is increasing efforts to improve nursing home care by implementing an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse Arrests in Rochester NY</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4648</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two nursing homes in the Rochester, NY area are embroiled in an abuse scandal.  Yesterday, one certified nurse aide at the Kirkhaven Nursing Home in Rochester, and another who worked at the Edna Tina Wilson Living Center in Greece, NY, were arrested as part of a state-wide probe into nursing abuse and healthcare fraud.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study:  Standards Needed for Nursing Home Social Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4508</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low federal standards and inconsistent state laws have caused lapses in nursing home social workers’ qualifications.  Although social workers are integral to nursing home residents’ quality of care, there are vast differences among workers backgrounds based on the first national study on nursing home social workers, said The Press Citizen.  This, according to the findings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Homes Rated on New Government Website</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4408</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a Website ranking nearly 16,000 nursing homes.  Reuters Health reports that this is the first-ever federally-managed Website that ranks nursing home facilities for quality.
&#8220;Around three million Americans depend on nursing homes at some point during each year to provide life-saving care,&#8221; CMS administrator Kerry Weems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Nursing Home Abuse Investigation Yields Arrests</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4335</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced the arrests of nursing home employees over charges of resident neglect and abuse, Business First of Buffalo is reporting.  According to Business First, three employees were arrested and charged and a fourth has been convicted for “abusing elderly and ill patients.”
Cuomo announced the arrests yesterday, following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Workers Charged by Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3966</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four nursing home workers caught on tape mistreating a patient  were charged yesterday with falsifying records and endangering a resident at a Suffolk County facility familiar with such problems, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.  This case represents the fourth recent nursing home abuse case in the state, it is the first to originate out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLS Residential Defendants Sanctioned After Threatening Former Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3964</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLS Residential, LLC, a private mental health facility located in Putnam County, NY, has been sanctioned for threatening former patients who are potential plaintiffs in a class actions lawsuit.  SLS runs two residential treatment centers in the town of Southeast, NY  for adolescents and young adults.  In addition to a class action lawsuit, SLS is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Majority of Nursing Homes Cited For Safety and Health Violations</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3918</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse and neglect continues to be a serious problem in the U.S.  According to a new report conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, a whopping 94 percent of all for-profit nursing homes were cited last year for violations of federal health and safety standards. In total, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Chelation-Heart Disease Study Enrollment Halted Pending Investigation</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3907</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. government’s largest ever alternative medicine study has stopped enrollment while “officials investigate whether participants were fully informed of the risks and are being adequately protected.”  Over 1,500 heart attack survivors are involved in the $30 million research, which is testing chelation therapy, a controversial treatment typically used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study:  Over 10 Percent Of Older Americans Suffer Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3678</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new University of Chicago study—the first such comprehensive review of elder mistreatment in the United States—has found that approximately 13 percent of elderly Americans are subject to abuse.  Worse, such elders are most commonly abused by a person who either verbally or financially abuses them.  &#8220;The population of the country is aging, and people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameful Conditions Continue in Adult Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3669</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have long been reporting on the horrendous conditions in some of this country’s nursing homes as well as some of the abuses suffered by nursing home residents.  In one such case, 54-year-old resident Karen Preston left the Roscoe Manor Adult Home in uptate New York; stumbled into the woods about a mile away; fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improper Nursing Home Evictions Put Elderly at Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3595</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to save money, nursing homes all over the country are evicting their most vulnerable residents.  According to The Wall Street Journal, formal complaints about nursing-home discharge practices have doubled over the past decade, making it the second biggest category of nursing home abuse complaints after those concerning unanswered calls for help.
Federal law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laws Still Not in Place to Protect Nursing Home Residents from Sexual Assaults</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3496</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 58-time sexual offender was placed in a Florida nursing home in 2002 at the order of a district court judge.  Ivy Edwards, 83, sexually assaulted a 77-year-old female resident suffering from dementia.  Exactly six years ago tonight, Edwards wheeled himself into the patient’s unlocked room, used his cane to block the door, and assaulted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act Approved</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3465</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial Law and Administrative Law just approved the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2008, moving the Act one step closer to becoming law.  The Act prohibits the signing of an arbitration agreement as a prerequisite to nursing home admission.  Critics of such agreements say they only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elder Abuse by In-Home Aids a Growing Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3454</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elderly people who want to avoid nursing homes often employ in-home aids to help meet their day-to-day needs.  However, in many cases, the in-home aid industry is unregulated, and advocates for the elderly say that this situation has led to a growing number of cases of elder abuse, neglect or fraud in which home caregivers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggression Among Nursing Home Residents Not That Uncommon</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3421</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Cornell University study reports aggression among nursing home residents—verbal and physical abuse&#8211;is more common than once believed.  In an online report with McKnight&#8217;s Long Term Care News, the study claims that many observations made at a city-based nursing home found at least 35 different types of abuse, with screaming being the most popular.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Ratings System to be Online By Year&#8217;s End</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3301</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new nursing home rating system should be up and running on the Medicare Website by the end of this year.  The new site will employ a 5-star system to rate nursing homes based on government inspection results, staffing data and quality measures.  It is hoped that the new ratings systems will act as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements Unfair to Residents</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3292</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse and neglect has reached epidemic levels.  Unfortunately, many nursing home patients and their family are signing away one of the most important tools in the fight against abuse and neglect &#8211; their right to sue.
The National Center on Elder Abuse estimates at least one in 20 nursing home patients has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Problems Missed in Inspections, GAO Says</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3096</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a report scheduled for release today, the Congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals a widespread “understatement of deficiencies,” that include malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of prescription medications, and nursing home resident abuse in the nation’s nursing home inspection reports.  The report states that nursing home inspectors routinely ignore or minimize problems that pose serious, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elderly in Nursing Homes More Likely to be Depressed Than Those Living at Home</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3065</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study has shed new light on the frequency of depression among nursing home patients.  The study &#8211; which involved 272 elderly patients with an average age of 81— looked at how often those patients reported feeling depressed and were prescribed antidepressants at both a long-term care facility and through a home-care agency.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporting Suspected Nursing Home Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3045</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse, though despicable, is hardly uncommon. Although laws vary by state, most states do have laws—which include criminal penalties—in place to protect senior citizens from elder abuse; nursing homes are not exempt from these laws.
Unfortunately, nursing home abuse tends to be underreported because individual homes do not take elder abuse seriously and residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Nursing Homes Named on Federal Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Families in need of nursing care for a loved one will now have easier access to a list of the most troubled nursing homes in the country, thanks new information being added to a nursing home website developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.   Consumer groups are cheering the move, and say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Says Misappropriation of Funds for &#8220;Deplorable Conditions&#8221; at Haven Healthcare Facility</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/2627</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home negligence by Connecticut&#8217;s largest nursing home chain was the result of fraud committed by a Haven Healthcare official.  Those claims are made in a wrong death lawsuit filed by the family of Robert Wininger, a resident of one of Haven Healthcare&#8217;s nursing homes who the lawsuit claims died as a result of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Worst Nursing Home List” Now Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse and nursing home negligence is a growing problem in the US, but now there is a new tool available to help families avoid the worst nursing homes.  The Bush administration finally published the names of 131 of the nation’s worst nursing homes.  The administration initially tried to protect the deficient nursing homes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse Concerns Rise in Florida Amid Manor Care Purchase, Publication of Nursing Home &#8220;Watch List&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/2297</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of nursing home abuse is making news in Florida, where the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and some state lawmakers are urging regulators to examine the issues  of nursing home abuse and neglect as they consider granting a nursing home license to a private equity firm that recently purchased facilities in Florida and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse Law Could Stiffen Penalties, Change Rules Regarding Private Equity Firms</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/2043</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse is finally getting some attention from Congress, where two separate hearings were held yesterday to discuss the problem.   Committees from both the House of Representatives and the Senate took up the nursing home abuse issue, and now Congress will consider legislation to deal with this serious problem.
Nursing home abuse is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Neglect of Eye Care Erodes Quality of Life, Leave Residents at Risk of Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home neglect often includes a lack of vision care for nursing home residents, a recent study has found.  Unfortunately, this problem can have serious implications, as the same study has also discovered that nursing home patients who lack basic  eye care have a lower quality of life and are at a higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse Bill Sits in Congress, as Elder Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1987</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nursing home abuse bill, the Elder Justice Act, has been under consideration in Congress for the past five years but has received scant attention and has yet to be passed.  Although nursing home and elder abuse are serious and growing problems in this country, the nursing home abuse bill has never even been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse at Privately-Held Facilities Should be Investigated, Say Senators Clinton and Grassley</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1874</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To US Senators want to know if nursing home abuse and neglect are more prevalent in facilities owned by private Wall Street equity firms, and they are asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to find out.   Their requests come on the heels of a New York Times investigation that found that the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse and Elder Abuse Screening Programs Should be Routine In Hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1785</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home abuse and elder abuse are among some of the most-under reported crimes, but a new study offers hope that more cases could be uncovered.   While most victims of elder abuse won’t answer direct questions about this crime, health care professionals and social workers who have received training in this area can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Neglect Takes on Many Forms: Patients Not Always Getting the Eye Care They Need</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1609</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The widespread yet heavily underreported problem of Nursing Home Neglect takes on many unexpected forms, one of which being simple eye care.  Nursing homes often neglect to provide residents with even the most basic vision care.  A study conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that nearly a third of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse &amp; Violence Among Residents Common, Yet Severely Understudied</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1605</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physical abuse in a nursing home is not always perpetrated by staff.  According to a Cornell University Study, resident-on-resident violence in long-term-care facilities is far more prevalent than previously thought.  But the authors of the study concede that they really don’t know how widespread this problem is because nursing home abuse is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse: Neglect, Physical and Even Sexual Abuse are the Harsh Realities Facing Todayâ€™s Elderly</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1590</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revolting reality of Nursing Home Abuse is on the rise.  Though it concedes that the true number is probably much higher, The National Center on Elder Abuse estimates at least one in 20 nursing home patients has been the victim of abuse.   There are nearly 1.4 million Americans that are living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many Nursing Home Residents Fail to Receive Adequate Pain Control Due to Deficiencies in Medication Prescribing Practices â€“ Study</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/919</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, and published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, has found that the medication prescribing practices in place at many nursing homes results in poor pain management in residents.
As reported in Medical News Today (3/4/06), the researchers â€œdesigned and tested a Nursing Home Pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Jury Returns $160 Million Verdict for Vicious Beating of 81-Year-Old Nursing Home Resident by Violent Roommate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the award will likely be substantially reduced by the trial judge or a Texas appellate court, a San Antonio jury has returned a verdict $160 million in favor of the family of Tranquilino Mendoza, an 81-year-old man who was viciously beaten by a mentally disturbed roommate at the Comanche Trail  Nursing Center in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millions of Defective Fire Sprinkler Heads Recalled in 2001 Are Still Being Used In Hospitals, Schools, Nursing Homes, and Other Buildings Nationwide</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/833</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report in USA Today, â€œalmost two-thirdsâ€ of some 35 million potentially defective fire sprinkler heads recalled in 2001 remain in service in â€œnursing homes, hospitals, schools, and other buildings.â€
The original voluntary recall and replacement program was announced on July 19, 2001 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and Central Sprinkler Company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Arrested in Ongoing Investigation of Insurance Fraud Linked to $90 Million in Unnecessary Surgeries</title>
		<link>http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/829</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As scams go, this one was rather simple: (1) Find a healthy person willing to undergo an unnecessary surgical procedure; (2) reward that person with cash, a paid vacation, or cosmetic surgery; (4) perform the surgery; (5) bill the personâ€™s insurance company; and (6) repeat the process as many times as possible.
The people doing the [...]]]></description>
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