Nursing Home Abuse

Residents in nursing homes around Washington are vulnerable, and must be protected from all harm and neglect, but particularly from COVID-19, commonly referred to as...

Be careful: assisted living only works for people who don’t need too much assistance. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/opinion/sunday/dementia-assisted-living.html?searchResultPosition=1

KIRO 7 NEWS reports that abuse of vulnerable adults in Washington is on the rise.  The cite the Washington State Department of Social and Health...

Forbes published an article in October 2018 that documented the 10 best and 10 worst states for nursing homes (Washington State was not on either...

As more and more of our communities reach an age where nursing home care is needed, there is a growing realization that abuse and neglect...

A Bremerton nursing home has recently been fined over $500,000 after one of their residents died. Last October, a man staying in the home wandered...

Bobby Glenn Tweed, a 78-year-old diagnosed with dementia, was put in a nursing home in January of 2013.  Only ten months later, Tweed died because...

89-year-old resident, Christine Young, of Symphony of Morgan Park died in March 2015 after choking on a peppermint candy.  Young was a blind resident of...

According to a new lawsuit, a senior rehabilitation center in Portland, Oregon, has failed to either punish or report one of their employees to authorities...

Another nursing home is facing a suit over a recent death.  A nursing home in Grand Blanc, Michigan, had a tenant die while staying and...