"Assuring our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves."

LATEST NEWS

FATE provides information, counseling, advice, resources and referrals to those who need assistance in dealing with care of the elderly.

One source of information are our news updates.  Click on the entries below to read the stories (You will need Acrobat Reader™ to view and print these files):

• Nursing home fined $100K for death of resident
  
  
• Elder Care Headlines from CA, FL and KY
  
  
• Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar
  
  
• Gone Without a Case: Suspicious Elder Deaths Rarely Investigated
  
  
• Nursing Home Ombudsman's Lawsuit Expanded
  
  
• Woman's death raises questions about nursing home medical records
  
  
• Falsified patient records are untold story of California nursing home care
  
  
• Records released in state licensing bribery investigation
  
  
• Federal Report Cites State's Wrongdoing in Nursing-Home Ombudsman Program
  
  
• Health facility targeted in lawsuit
  
  
• Records released in state licensing bribery investigation
  

• SAN BERNARDINO: $80,000 fine in patient's death at nursing home

• Judge orders Johnson & Johnson subsidiary to pay SC $327 million for deceptive drug marketing
  

• California fines 12 hospitals for endangering patients

• Pursuit of Profit Leads To Increase in Infections in Nursing Home Residents

• Report finds criminals able to offer in-home care for elderly

• Insurance commissioner joins lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing by Sutter Health

• Use of chemical restraints in nursing homes called an epidemic

• Trial warranted in Fair Oaks elder abuse case

• North Bergen, NJ woman arrested in nursing home abuse case

• Jury orders health care facilities to pay $9 million in wrongful death suit

• Study Finds Criminal Pasts of Nursing Home Workers

• Questions Raised Over Antipsychotic Usage On Elderly

• Rocklin nursing home chain sold to Southern California firm

• California Nursing Home Closed After Abuse Caught on “Grannycam”

• More young people are winding up in nursing homes

• FATE complaint results in State issuing a major citation.
  Nursing home fined $100,000 for death of woman.

• Nursing Home Fined $10K in Maggot Incident

• Roseville PD: Nurse arrested in theft of medications

• I-Team Investigates Chemical Restraint Of Elderly

• Widower Blames Nursing Home For Wife's Death

• $29 million verdict upheld against Rocklin nursing home firm

• Judge tentatively rejects Rocklin nursing home's new-trial request

• Jury Imposes maximum damages on Skilled Healthcare: nursing home chain faces upwards of $600 million for health code violations

• Verdict: Skilled Healthcare faces more than $600 million in damages

• California Nursing Home Regulators Lax in Collecting Fines Audit says (Sac Bee)
  Click here to read the California State Auditors' complete report

• Jury orders Auburn nursing home company to pay $28 million in death

• Jury hits Auburn Nursing Home with $28 million in punitive damages

• Jury finds Auburn Nursing Home committed elder abuse in death

• Auburn Nursing Home again under scrutiny in civil trial over death

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