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Nursing Homes Neglecting Mom and Dad?
ABCNews -- When Carol Crow, a 60-year-old Alzheimer's patient, was found covered in bruises at her nursing home, administrators at the facility said she fell. Crow's family wasn't so sure.
"What I saw was horrendous," said Crow's daughter, Julie Glass. "No one should ever go through what my mother went through."
While the investigation into Crow's nursing home found that there was no wrongdoing, concerns like these are not uncommon. A government report released this week found extensive problems in America's nursing homes. According to the study, nearly one in five of the nearly 15,000 nursing homes examined were cited for violations that put patients in immediate harm in 2007. A total of 92 percent were cited for some type of deficiencies...
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11.24.09 - Updated 4:36am ET
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