ARTICLE FROM THE APRIL 5 EDITION OF THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE John Dalli (right) and Joe Carola (center) organized a New York City versus Long Island bar association hockey match with Hon. Alan Scheinkman (left) that raised money for the Fisher House Foundation. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese Presiding Justice...
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On March 14, New England Public Radio reposted an important broadcast (and article) from WBUR, with the online article, by Quincy Walters, entitled “Patient Deaths Cited In Mass. Settlement With 7 Nursing Homes.“ The broadcast and article described a woman named Betty Crane, whom, in 2015, according to the reporting,...
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Nursing Home Update: Latest Data Indicate Low Staffing is Persistent & Pervasive February 27, 2019 – Staffing is perhaps the most important factor in a nursing home resident’s quality of care and ability to live with dignity. Unfortunately, inadequate nursing home staffing is a widespread and persistent problem. Some nursing homes...
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According to Holter, “Julia Wiggins, a local pastor, posted the photos to Facebook on Tuesday showing 80-year-old Esther Brown ‘face down into a soft pillow gasping for breath and strangling on her own saliva,’ she wrote.” The article goes on to state that, “Wiggins urged people with family members in...
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A January 11, 2019, article in The Cut, by authors, Kimberly Truong and Claire Lampen, was entitled, “Woman in Vegetative State Gives Birth, Prompting Sexual-Assault Investigation”. The article delineates that, “On December 29 (2018), a woman who had been in a vegetative state for over two decades gave birth in an Arizona...
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A shocking story appeared on and in several New York news outlets in 2017, one sourced here from the News4NY (NBC) website, entitled, “Nurse Attacks 83-Year-Old Paraplegic War Veteran After He Outs Her for Being Late to Work: Cops”. The story described how, “A licensed practical nurse allegedly brutally attacked an...
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Following is a joint statement issued by Long Term Care Community Coalition and the Center for Medicare Advocacy on current financial troubles and turmoil in the nursing home industry. The statement is also available at https://nursinghome411.org/ltccc-comments/. Joint Statement on Turmoil in the Nursing Home Industry January 2019—The nursing home industry...
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We monitor regional and national news for stories of nursing home and elder abuse. These stories supplement the case studies, scenarios and vignettes that we have produced here, based upon actual cases and situations encountered since 1995 when we began our practice. Dalli & Marino LLP
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ADMINISTRATOR TAKES PLEA IN NURSING HOME DEATH RIVERHEAD – A former top administrator at a Medford nursing home admitted Friday to covering up the death of a woman at the facility. In 2012, 72-year-old Aurelia Rios died after prosecutors say workers at Medford Multicare Center ignored several alarms, and failed...
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How N.Y.’s Biggest For-Profit Nursing Home Group Flourishes Despite a Record of Patient Harm OCTOBER 2015 Charlie Stewart was looking forward to getting out of the nursing home in time for his 60th birthday. On his planned release day, in late 2012, the Long Island facility instead called Stewart’s wife...
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