The daughter of Millie Slatten, who has cerebral palsy, was a resident at Hillcrest Centre for Health and Rehabilitation in Jeffersonville. Her condition left her unable to walk or talk. According to a probable cause affidavit, a staff member reported seeing a male patient sitting at the end of Slatten’s daughter’s bed with his pants down and his shirt off. The victim’s undergarments were also undone. The male patient suffers from schizophrenia and had expressed to staff members previously about his desire to be close to the victim.

The male patient is charged with sexual battery. A warrant is issued for his arrest. But that news is hardly comforting to family members of the victim, who is now living at home with her parents.

“I just don’t see how they could not see that man go in that room,” Slatten told WHAS-TV.

Hillcrest Centre released a statement saying that it provided a detailed report to the Indiana State Department of Health and that “appropriate measures continue to be taken by Hillcrest Centre to ensure all residents of the facility remain free of any abuse.”

Slatten says reporting the incident just isn’t enough. She wants the home closed, and she is filing a lawsuit against the home on her daughter’s behalf.

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › Rape victim’s family wants nursing home shut down

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Sen. Kotowski says the basis of the bill is to ensure that problems at nursing homes get fixed. The Illinois Department of Public Health would be charged with overseeing the system and deciding if homes were using the refunded fines to remedy problems. If passed, Illinois would become the only state to refund nursing home fines.

“We really want to use the enforcement system to fix the problem,” said Terry Sullivan, a representative with the nursing home advocacy group Health Care Council of Illinois. “Why take funding away from the facility just when they need it?”

Wendy Meltzer, director of the Illinois Citizens for Better Care said the idea of refunding moneys paid by nursing homes that have been cited for abuse or neglect in “the rape or death of a resident is ‘morally repugnant,’” according to the news report.

The bill will also siphon funds from a special state fund that currently pays for Public Health employees to monitor troubled nursing homes and who take temporary control over troubled facilities.

Facing mounting opposition, Sen. Kotowski says he is willing to modify the legislation to please both sides for the greater good of those living in nursing homes.

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › Illinois nursing home advocates fight proposed bill to refund fines

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This weekend, Timothy Patrick White of Philadelphia was charged with a most evil act – raping a dying 70-year-old nursing home resident.

Last summer, White walked into Manor Care Nursing Home in Philadelphia and somehow left the building with the woman, according to the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Daily News. The woman, who suffers from vascular dementia and a brain tumor, was living out her last days in the nursing home. Doctors say she has less than six months to live.

White drove the woman to a local bar for mixed drinks and then to a park where they drank beer until the early morning. When he returned her to the nursing home, staffers noticed White was shirtless and his pants were unbuttoned. White said he was a friend of the woman’s as he drove away.

Staff later noticed bruises on the woman’s mouth, neck and arms, and that she was not wearing underwear. A DNA sample taken from White matched semen from the victim’s anal cavity.

Because the victim has a diminished mental capacity and is unable to form consent, it is automatically considered a rape case, police said.

White is being held for trail on 15 counts of rape and related charges.

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › Philly man charged with raping dying nursing home patient

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According to the news story, the abuse occurred at the Oak Hills Living Center from August 2007 through February 2008.

In addition to the abuse, family members say Curnutt was neglected, left in soiled bedding and clothing.

KOTV quotes Curnutt’s father, Richard Curnutt, as saying, “He’s incontinent. Been left wet. Been left dirty. I’ve had to go down and say, ‘please change James.’”

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › Oklahoma man abused, neglected

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