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All Local Media Stories
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| September 03 2003 |
Alabama
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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
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| May 04 2004 |
Alabama
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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 |
Alabama
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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 |
Alabama
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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 |
Alabama
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Two bills target unlicensed homes for assisted living |
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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 |
Alabama
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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 |
Alabama
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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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| July 29 2005 |
Alabama
Atmore
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Son charged after mom found locked in car |
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A 68-year-old man has been charged with abuse and neglect after he left his 95-year-old mother in a hot car in a parking lot for more than 45 minutes. The woman also had "numerous visible bruises, contusions and lacerations to her skin." |
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Mobile Register
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/112262876253570.xml&coll=3
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David Ferrara
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| August 03 2005 |
Alabama
Atmore
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Neglect suspect free on bond |
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A 68-year-old man has been freed on bond after being arrested on charges that he left his 95-year-old mother in a hot car last Wednesday. |
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Atmore Advance
http://www.atmoreadvance.com/articles/2005/08/03/news/news2.txt
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Adam Prestridge
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| October 28 2004 |
Alabama
Baldwin County
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Fred 'Hollywood' Barkley charged with attempted murder |
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A grand jury has decided that the domestic assault charges brought against a 43-year-old man who allegedly assaulted his 88-year-old wife should be upgraded to attempted murder. The husband was previously charged with elder abuse, but the charges were dropped on condition of annulment of the marriage. The couple subsequently married again after the husband was released from jail on charges of enticing a 14-year-old boy for sex. |
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Mobile Register
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1098955166277880.xml
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Brendan Kirby
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| August 18 2005 |
Alabama
Bay Minette
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Elderly woman locked in car dies weeks later |
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"Authorities…said they will incorporate the recent death of a 95-year-old woman into their case against her [68-year-old] son, who is accused of locking his mother in a car in a Bay Minette parking lot three weeks ago." |
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Mobile Register
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1124378102234990.xml&coll=3
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Dan Murtaugh
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| October 22 2005 |
Alabama
Bay Minette
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Baldwin County judge sentences Saunders to death |
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Timothy Wade Saunders, 26, was sentenced to death for the 2004 bludgeoning death of his 77-year-old, male neighbor. He also attacked the neighbor's 73-year-old wife. He was high on crack cocaine at the time and admitted to the murder. |
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Ledger-Enquirer
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/12972008.htm
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| April 02 2004 |
Alabama
Birmingham
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Veterans Affairs Discusses Nursing Home Neglect; Current Company's Contract Will Not Be Renewed |
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The Alabama Veteran Affairs' board met to discuss a recent investigation of some state-run nursing homes over family allegations that "VA nursing homes perpetuate neglect and abuse." |
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NBC 13
http://www.nbc13.com/news/2971859/detail.html
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| October 18 2004 |
Alabama
Birmingham
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Boarding inspections may end; Some fear the return of unsafe conditions |
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The inspectors of board and care homes in Jefferson County, "the only county in the state that regulates communal living facilities," may be laid off in budget cuts. Article details development of the post, including the abuse cases that caught officials' attention. |
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Birmingham Post-Herald
http://www.postherald.com/me101804.shtml
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Daniel Jackson
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| October 19 2004 |
Alabama
Birmingham
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Boarding home vote expected Wednesday |
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More discussion of the role of inspectors for boarding homes. One advocate says, "We know 60 percent of these facilities fail to meet a score of 90 or better even with the inspections. So when [the inspection process is] dissolved, you can only imagine what will happen." |
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Birmingham Post-Herald
http://www.postherald.com/me101904.shtml
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Daniel Jackson
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| December 15 2004 |
Alabama
Choctaw County
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West Alabama woman shot dead in domestic violence incident |
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A 64-year-old woman has been shot to death in what "appeared to be a case of domestic violence." (Brief item) |
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WHNT-TV
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2694795
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