News Tagged ‘Bluegrass Care and Rehabilitation Center

Kentucky investigators urge nursing homes to ban cell phones

cellphone 100x100Members of the staff at Bluegrass Care and Rehabilitation Center in Lexington, Kentucky, didn’t think their joke would get out of hand. They would attach sexually explicit song lyrics to photos of residents taken with their cell phone cameras and send them as text messages to other employees. “We were just having fun,” an employee told state investigators. “Everybody was on the cell phone 24/7.”

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Nursing home staff fired for taking inappropriate photos of residents

camera flashing 100x100Several staff members at a Kentucky nursing home were fired recently after an investigation found that employees had taken inappropriate photos and made audio recordings of residents at the facility, attached them to songs with sexual lyrics, and circulated them to other employees at the , according to the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader.

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