{"id":136,"date":"2013-08-20T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagonursinghomelawyersblog.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2013-08-18T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:13:47","slug":"nursing-home-employee-reveals-resident-bed-sores-and-other-nursing-home-abuses-by-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/nursing-home-employee-reveals-resident-bed-sores-and-other-nursing-home-abuses-by-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Home Employee Reveals Resident Bed Sores and Other Nursing Home Abuses by Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A former nursing home employee reported to state health officials that he witnessed severe neglect at the nursing home in which he worked, including a resident\u2019s severe bed sores, an elderly resident lying in a pool of urine and another resident who had fallen and was calling for help, yet remained unattended.<span>\u00a0<\/span>These reports of abuse were photographed by the former nursing home employee and reported to the state health officials.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The nursing home employee was then fired after being temporarily suspended.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The trial court has allowed a proceeding to take place with the former employee\u2019s whistle-blowing lawsuit as well as his wrongful termination case.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The nursing home had moved to dismiss the lawsuit, which resulted in a temporary shutdown of the rehabilitation center located in Tennessee.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the attorney for the nursing home employee, the man was fired in retaliation for \u201cdoing the right thing.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span>The nursing home claims that the employee violated work rules and patient privacy laws by using his cell phone to take photographs of the conditions at the nursing facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/nursing-home-employee-reveals-resident-bed-sores-and-other-nursing-home-abuses-by-photography\/#more-136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former nursing home employee reported to state health officials that he witnessed severe neglect at the nursing home in which he worked, including a resident\u2019s severe bed sores, an elderly resident lying in a pool of urine and another resident who had fallen and was calling for help, yet remained unattended.\u00a0These reports of abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nursing-home-abuse","category-nursing-home-fall-cases","category-nursing-home-resident-bed-sores"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nursing Home Employee Reveals Resident Bed Sores and Other Nursing Home Abuses by Photography &#8212; 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