The feds have intervened to ensure that
elderly nursing home residents are safeguarded from alleged social media abuse
on the Internet according to a 10news.com report.
Earlier last week, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) which operates as a wing of the Department of
Health and Human services dispatched official memos to State Health Departments
all across the country in which they made available basic guidelines on how to
deal with and avoid the supposedly ongoing abuse of nursing home residents on
social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
The memo further outlines and enlists
the responsibilities of the state as far as patient protection is concerned and
according to nursing home abuse lawyers, they emphasized specifically on social
media abuse.
One of the new policies that nursing
homes across the country are being pushed to adopt is placing a ban or
prohibition on nursing home staffers from taking and posting embarrassing
pictures of nursing home residents on the Internet. The memo calls for strict
penalties for violators.
This is terrible if someone does this. What
are the penalties for selling out the State Department to an outside foundation,
enriching that foundation, and compromising America’s safety though?
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| It is amazing that some people even apply to work in a nursing home if they even believe they do not have the discipline or maturity to work in this environment. Nursing home abuse lawyers do not seem to have a shortage of work nowadays. Well, at least someone in America has enough work. |
Social
Media Abuse of Elderly Nursing Home Residents is on the Rise
In a recent incident, a nursing home
staffer who is employed and paid to take care of residents was instead found to
have captured a photo of a semi-nude 90 year old woman and then allegedly
posted it on Snapchat. The alleged incident is alleged to have occurred in
LifeHOUSE Vista where new owners have just taken over recently and renamed the
care facility to Astor Healthcare Center.
This is not the only incident to have
come to light with regards to social media abuse of elderly nursing home
residents. Nursing home abuse attorneys are of the opinion that it has become a
kind of trend among some nursing home staffers and this grotesque behavior is
not isolated or localized to just any one state, but continues to occur across
the nation.
Another shocking video also captured in
LifeHOUSE Vista was one where two staff members could be seen laughing at and
mocking a 90 year old woman diagnosed with dementia prior to giving her a
shower. They should be fired!
If any of this is happening to anyone
you know, press right here Nursing-Home-Abuse.USAttorneys. You need legal
help and someone needs to be reminded on how to act apparently.
Pennsylvania
Superior Court: Reporters of Nursing Home Abuse can Testify
A first impression case came to a
conclusion when the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that reporters of nursing
home abuse and/or nursing home neglect should be allowed to testify in court in
any subsequent litigation stemming from the abuse itself.
As reported by thelegalintelligencer.com, the ruling stems
from a case where a nursing home argued that its employee’s testimony was
privileged under the act as the employee also happened to be the whistleblower
or the reported of the alleged abuse.
The case has been identified as
McLaughlin v. Garden Spot Village.
If you suspect that your loved one is subjected to
nursing home abuse, it would be prudent not to waste time reporting the
incident before it is too late. In addition, make that all-important call to a
nursing home abuse lawyer right away.
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