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Tag: neglect

Shows a sign reading, "The Oaks at Sweeten Creek/ Carrington Place condominiums" carved in the face in fancy letters. The rock is in front of a nursing home where multiple residents died of COVID.
Posted inAging

When a loved one dies at a nursing home, families face mazes and mirages in search for answers

by Thomas Goldsmith June 21, 2022November 15, 2022

By Thomas Goldsmith After a staff member at an Arden nursing home registered positive for COVID on Sept. 16, 2020, the Oaks at Sweeten Creek waited for eight days to test its 84 residents for COVID as required according to state records. During the next four weeks, 53 residents of Oaks at Sweeten Creek and […]

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, North Carolina spent close to $1.2 billion on nursing homes for elderly Medicaid recipients in 2013.
Posted inAging

Corporate owners of troubled Thomasville nursing home escape public spotlight in state hearing

by Thomas Goldsmith and Rose Hoban March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
photo shows an elderly woman in a dress and cardigan looking out a window covered by a lace curtain
Posted inAging

NC advocates: Adult Protective Services needs multi-million dollar boost from state to fight abuse and neglect

by Thomas Goldsmith January 27, 2021October 20, 2022
shows a tile wall, each tile has the handprint of a child and some text on it as a proxy for child abuse
Posted inChildren's Health

Unsafe conditions for children in wake of COVID-19

by Sarah Ovaska April 28, 2020April 27, 2020

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