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Teh One Who Knocks
11-20-2017, 11:15 AM
FOX News


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A hidden video from 2014 showed nurses laughing as a World War II veteran repeatedly called for help and died while in their care.

The family of James Dempsey, 89, of Woodstock, Ga., hid a camera in the late veteran’s room in the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center which captured the night he died.

The video showed the decorated WWII veteran repeatedly calling for help, saying he could not breathe. It also showed the nurses failing to take life-saving measures and laughing as they tried to start an oxygen machine.


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Dempsey’s family sued the nursing home in 2014 following the veteran’s death. Dempsey's family declined to comment on the video, citing a settlement with the nursing home, WXIA-TV reported.

The nursing home’s attorneys attempted to stop media news outlet WXIA-TV from getting the video but a DeKalb County Judge ruled to unseal the footage.

The nurses, including a nursing supervisor, Wanda Nuckles, told Dempsey’s family lawyers in the deposition that when she learned the veteran had stopped breathing, she rushed to his room and took over CPR, keeping it up until paramedics, WXIA-TV reported.
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However, the secret video showed that nobody was doing CPR when she arrived, and she did not start immediately. After the attorneys showed Nuckles the video, she told them it was an honest mistake, based on her normal reactions.

When the attorney’s asked what Nuckles was laughing, she said she did not remember.

WXIA-TV reported the nursing home was told of the video in 2015 but did not terminate the nurses until 10 months later. Nuckles and another nurse did not surrender their licenses until this September when the Georgia Board of Nursing was sent a link to the video by the news station.

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Two nurses surrendered their licenses in Sept. 2017. (11 Alive)

Records showed the nursing home continued to have problems, including $813,000 in Medicare fines since 2015, WXIA-TV reported. It said the nursing home got a good inspection report in May, but still has Medicare's lowest score, a one-star rating. The nursing home was currently still open.

Muddy
11-20-2017, 02:54 PM
This is some horrible shit man..

Teh One Who Knocks
11-20-2017, 02:55 PM
Those nurses should be executed :|

Muddy
11-20-2017, 03:01 PM
What they did is tantamount to murder.

Hal-9000
11-20-2017, 07:32 PM
We had a story here couple of years back where a 90 year old man was in a home. He didn't have dementia, just physical problems and old age.

He claimed to his son that he was being abused. The home did nothing so the son set up a fancy hidden camera.

Two nurses were caught on it physically beating the man, burning him with water, threatening to pour urine from his bedpan on him and making jokes.

They were suspended. They didn't lose their degree (4 month course in elder care) and were shipped off to another facility.

The son was told if he wanted further action to be taken, he would have to sue in a civil suit.

We had just placed my Mom in a care facility and ohh boy was I ready to make sure they looked after my Mom properly...

Goofy
11-20-2017, 07:56 PM
:|

Hugh_Janus
11-20-2017, 10:27 PM
fuckin cunts

deebakes
11-21-2017, 02:37 AM
where's the outrage with this injustice that is clearly evident? :(

lost in melb.
11-21-2017, 04:53 AM
Cause is happens all the time.

Simple fact is, no one wants to work in elderly care, so they get the dregs :|

deebakes
11-22-2017, 01:28 AM
my grandmother-in-law just passed away this week at 98, she was in bad shape. the people in her 'care facility' seemed like they could give 2 shits if she lived or died :|