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Alabama Local Media Stories
| September 03 2003 |
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Editorial: Protecting seniors: DHR must improve services to abused, neglected adults |
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Opinion argues that the state's adult protection system is ripe for being sued by the federal government for not protecting elders. |
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The Birmingham News
www.al.com
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| May 04 2004 |
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Ala. A.G. Warns of Home Repair Fraud |
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"May is Remodeling Consumer Protection Month, and Alabama Attorney General Troy King is teaming with the Alabama Home Builders Licensure Board, the Home Builders Association of Alabama, and the Better Business Bureau In an annual campaign to protect Alabama citizens against home repair fraud." |
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Insurance Journal
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2004/05/04/41886.htm
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| June 22 2004 |
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Audit: State slow to probe nursing home abuse |
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State officials are disputing findings of the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Alabama is not fully investigating all nursing home complaints. The state says it is appropriately triaging the complaints due to lack of staff. |
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The Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1087895717308120.xml
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Mary Orndorff
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| August 19 2004 |
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Officials to post inspection scores at assisted-living homes |
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State health officials are proposing a green-yellow-red rating system for assisted living facilities, based on their inspection scores. "[T]he proposed process would require less paperwork, clearing more time for surveyors to do more inspections." The color codes would be posted in the facility and on a state website. |
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Times Daily
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040819/APN/408190577
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| February 04 2005 |
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Two bills target unlicensed homes for assisted living |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Legislation
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"Two bills headed to the Alabama House and Senate health committees are aimed at increasing the penalties for operators of unlicensed assisted-living facilities…." The bills are, in part, responses to a recent Shelby County case in which two sisters in their 30s with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and epilepsy were removed from an unlicensed assisted-care boarding home when it was discovered that one of them had been sexually abused. |
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Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1107512621231150.xml
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Lisa Osburn
losburn@phamnews.com |
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| March 04 2005 |
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Editorial: Elderly deserve more protection |
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Editorial supports Senate bill 338, which would raise the fine for operating an unlicensed facility to $25,000 (from the current $5,000) and would impose a $3,000 fine on any health care provider who knowingly refers an individual to an unlicensed facility. Also supports SB 337, which requires officials to investigate and "determine the nature of the residents" if more than three unrelated adults are receiving public assistance checks at a single address, to determine if there is actually an unlicensed facility there. |
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Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5edcare304w.htm
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| May 22 2005 |
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Most sexual abuse victims know their attackers |
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"A study two years ago by the Bureau of Justice Statistics suggested that sex offenders are not nearly as likely to fail at rehabilitation efforts as many people believe. The report, which examined prisoners released in 15 states in 1994, found that 68 percent of the non-sex offenders were arrested for a new offense within three years, compared with 43 percent of the sex offenders." |
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Mobile Register
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/111675371623000.xml&coll=3
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Brendan Kirby
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