Maine Dem Senators Wear Clown Noses To DHHS Public Hearing

Maine Dem Senators Wear Clown Noses To DHHS Public Hearing

Augusta-The Maine Republican Party is speaking out against two Democrat Senators, Sen. Colleen Lachowicz and Sen. Margaret Craven, who made a mockery of a serious DHHS public hearing Wednesday by wearing clown noses as citizens testified on a bill concerning availability of beds for low-income Mainers in nursing homes.

Note: Yes, they must have fit right in with the DHHS workers.

Foster parents charged with theft

Foster parents charged with theft

Sault OPP have charged two female foster parents with theft.

Note: It's not only kids who get screwed.

Police investigating foster home abuse case

Police investigating foster home abuse case

Police were investigating a possible adult abuse case at a foster care home in Portland Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Note: The adults are apparently no safer than the kids.

Fact Finder: Reno man wrongfully accused of abuse, neglect?

Fact Finder: Reno man wrongfully accused of abuse, neglect?

County Social Services rep charged with sexually abusing two clients

County Social Services rep charged with sexually abusing two clients

Niagara Falls Police detectives have arrested a Niagara County Social Services worker on charges he sexually abuse two of his clients.

Gov. Scott vetoes bill waiving background checks for volunteers

Gov. Scott vetoes bill waiving background checks for volunteers

After cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for nursing homes and after-school programs, Governor Scott's going a step further.

The State stole my son it took me a YEAR to get him back: A father's battle with sinister and secretive forces to bring his 21-year-old home

The State stole my son it took me a YEAR to get him back: A father's battle with sinister and secretive forces to bring his 21-year-old home

He was found barefoot and in his pyjamas, cowering in a car park on a bitterly cold October night, less than a mile from home. Steven Neary had got past a locked front door, a double-bolted security gate and the team of care workers who were supposed to be watching his every move the day he decided to take the matter of his liberty into his own hands.

Shield the most vulnerable: New York must improve oversight, accountability of group homes

Shield the most vulnerable: New York must improve oversight, accountability of group homes

Troubling revelations about a lack of oversight in New York’s more than 2,000 group homes for developmentally disabled adults show an appalling failure of the state to protect some of its most vulnerable citizens.

Note: It appears as though New York isn't doing much good for anybody.

2 Arrested In Woman’s Adult Foster Care Death

2 Arrested In Woman’s Adult Foster Care Death

Two Mid-Michigan women have been charged in the death of a 71-year-old woman.

Mary Chapman, of Holly Township, and her daughter Vamerolyn Chapman, of Mt. Morris Township, are facing second-degree vulnerable abuse charges in the death of Joann Christopher.

Man to sue Social Services for neglect

Man to sue Social Services for neglect

We continue to learn more about the suspected torture and murder of a disabled woman in North Collins. Now, the brother of Laura Cummings is sharing new information with News 4.

Medicaid Fraud Unit Expands into Abuse and Neglect Cases

Medicaid Fraud Unit Expands into Abuse and Neglect Cases

The Alaska Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Department of Law announced today they recently obtained criminal convictions of two women in a case from late 2007 in which an 81-year-old veteran was abused.

Note: Adults too.

Legislator Unhappy with No Show at Committee Meeting

Legislator Unhappy with No Show at Committee Meeting

An Erie County lawmaker says he has some questions for the county's social services commissioner, including what went wrong in protecting a disabled woman from abuse and her eventual death. He had hoped to get those answers on Thursday.

Same thing in Child Welfare

Overbilled? State pays anyway

There are only 24 hours in a day, but not always when it comes to submitting home care bills to the state of Minnesota. Checks based on impossible work hours have been paid.

Beard Street home has history of abuse allegations, other red flags, as task force investigation continues

Beard Street home has history of abuse allegations, other red flags, as task force investigation continues

Neighbors say there were red flags about the adult foster care home on Beard Street — warnings that were echoed in state documents about abuse allegations, a frightened resident who fled to police and missing paperwork.

FBI raids health care facilities in $14.5M Medicare fraud case

FBI raids health care facilities in $14.5M Medicare fraud case

The FBI and other federal agents launched a series of Metro Detroit raids this morning in connection with an alleged scheme to bilk Medicare of more than $14.5 million.

Two doctors -- one licensed and one not -- are among 13 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit.

Also charged are two adult foster care home operators who allegedly received kickbacks for providing Medicare numbers of residents of their facilities. Those numbers were then used to bill for services such as home health therapy that were never provided, the indictment alleges.

2 DCF employees and third woman charged with stealing $20,000 from Palm Beach dementia patient

2 DCF employees and third woman charged with stealing $20,000 from Palm Beach dementia patient

Two women employed by the state to protect a vulnerable elderly woman instead preyed on her, stealing about $20,000 from her bank accounts while she was hospitalized for dementia, police said Wednesday.