Nursing Home Abuse
Four employees and a supervisor are being charged with abuse of a 94 year old Alzheimer’s patient. They punched the woman and stomped on her feet among other things.
This abuse occured at night at the Kane Regional Center’s Glen Hazel facility. Another employee finally reported it after six months. The abuse occured during overnight shifts.
This is probably the reason it went on for so long. There are no visitors during overnight shifts so the accused would know that it would have to be someone on the inside.
The cowards names are Mary Ann Bower, 57, Danielle Taylor, 46, of Pittsburgh; Shelly Keene, 35, of West Mifflin; Karen Perry, 46, of Homestead; and Shalaya Hatten, 30.
There were no other reports of abuse by any other residents or staff, so authorities can’t figure out why this one woman was singled out.
Well how about this for an explaination, there was other abuse but no need to report it since these idiots are already being fired and charged.
You must understand that no matter how you say you will protect them, you can’t. These helpless residents are there by themselves at night, at the mercy of the staff, and they are afraid. They can hear them come into their rooms at night and steal from them, but they know the best thing for them to do is to pretend they are asleep and live with it.
I would urge administrations of nursing homes to occasionally have departments heads come in for surprise checks during overnight hours to at least slow down the neglect and abuse. Many staffers spend the night hours sleeping themselves and only care for the residents right before staff changes in the morning, and the only way to catch this is to bust in during the night and check the residents.