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The California Department of Public Health, CDPH, utterly failed to protect vulnerable nursing home residents in the San Diego area. The CDPH is the state agency responsible for protecting nursing home residents from abuse, including sexual assault. Despite multiple reports of a certified nursing assistant committing sexual assault at San Diego nursing homes, the CDPH allowed the perpetrated of nursing home abuse to job-hop from one skilled care facility to another for years. Certified nursing assistant Matthew Fluckiger was reported…

A new documentary entitled Framing Britney Spears has focused attention not only on her specific situation but on conservatorship abuse more broadly. Thanks to this documentary, a spotlight is being focused on what has been a generally obscured and yet insidious problem with conservatorship abuse across the United States. Case of Brittney Spears A recent and widely watched documentary calls into question the conservatorship that was put in place some years ago in regard to entertainer Brittney Spears and her…

Well before the COVID-19 pandemic, infections of different types have been major issues at nursing homes in the United States. With alarming regularity, residents of nursing homes die from preventable infections that arise as a result of negligent care. Indeed, the number of people who dies each year as the result of nursing home abuse and neglect persistently is alarming. Shocking news reports have been coming out of metro-Atlanta during the past week about the Westbury Nursing Home in Conyers,…

A 22-year-old man named Henrii Hosue Reynoso is wanted by law enforcement in Georgia after charges were filed against him for sexually abusing at least four residents of the Shepherd Hills Nursing Home in Lafayette. Reynoso was questioned by police as a person of interest directly after the family of a resident of the skilled care facility reported a sexual assault. Reynoso was not immediately detained by the police and was permitted to leave the law enforcement center after the…

As we conclude the Fourth of July weekend, reflecting on the military veterans who’ve valiantly served our country seems more than appropriate. One of the most discouraging situations across the United States is the awful reality that many, many of those brave men and women that put their lives on the line for all of us find themselves without adequate healthcare. These include veterans who receive thoroughly unsatisfactory care and protection at nursing homes and other types of skilled living…