Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog

Felicia Williams was arrested on August 25, 2010 on three third-degree felony counts of injury to the elderly or disabled by exploitation. As shocking as this is, this was not the first time she was suspected of abusing defenseless elderly residents.

Williams, a former CNA at Port Lavaca Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, had been investigated not two weeks earlier on suspicion of making "improper video recordings" of residents of the facility. According to the facility attorney, Paul Romano, "Port Lavaca Nursing and Rehabilitation Center deeply regrets that the rights of some of its residents were violated by a former employee's inappropriate use of a cell phone video recorder". Facility management discovered the video through an internal investigation and contacted local police.

Williams remains in jail on in lieu of a $130,000 bond.

An eighty-eight year-old resident set up and caught a thief at Oakmont Nursing Home in Union, South Carolina.

The resident, who lives in a residential section of the nursing home facility, noticed that she was repeatedly missing cash from her room. Recently, she left $60 in a bank envelope inside a purse that she placed in a drawer when she left the room. When she checked the money the next morning, $40 was missing. Only the resident and facility employees have keys to the room.

The resident reported the theft to the facility supervisor and then decided to set up her thief. She left two $5 bills in her purse in the drawer. The bills ended up being taken at two different times when the resident was out of the room. Police were called and, after comparing the theft times with the work schedule of the facility employees, police arrested Brenda Rochester on two counts of second-degree burglary and petit larceny.