An ex-nursing home worker who was fired from Ideal Home Care says that he was let go because he complained about patient abuse, understaffing, and poor record-keeping at the California nursing home. Anthony Beasley started working at the nursing home, which takes care of physically and developmentally disabled adults, in May 2008.
He says that even though one male patient sexually assaulted both men and women, nursing home staff were only told to monitor him but not lock him in. Beasley says that entries he made in the staff log complaining of the patient's inappropriate behaviors were deleted or changed. He also claims that the assisted living facility was poorly staffed. Not only was he required to work 14 hour shifts, but also there were employees whose English was poor and who made medication mix-ups by giving the wrong ones to the wrong patients.
Nursing Home Sexual Abuse
Because many nursing homes patients are sick, frail, mentally ill, or disabled, they can make easy targets for sexual perpetrators. It is the responsibility of an assisted living facility to make sure that Los Angeles nursing home sexual abuse doesn't happen. This means carefully screening the people they hire so that they don't bring in employees that will abuse, neglect, or sexually assault patients. This also means carefully monitoring residents to make sure patients don't violate other residents.
In California, you can sue an assisted living facility for Los Angeles County nursing home neglect if their negligence allowed a patient to become a victim of sexual assault or any other type of violent crime. You should explore your legal options right away.
Meantime, Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are looking at over 100 hours of graphic videos that it received last year showing men sexually assaulting mentally and physically disabled women, with some of them wearing diapers. They think the sex crimes occurred at a Los Angeles nursing home in 2007 or 2008.
Ex-caregiver alleges abuse at Hawthorne facility, Mercury News, January 26, 2011
Related Web Resources:
California nursing home violations, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes, State of California Department of Justice
Contact our Los Angeles, California nursing home abuse law firm so we can help you explore your legal options. Your first consultation with Howard Law is free.
