Failure to Provide Security is Nursing Home Abuse
By nursing-home-lawyer | April 26, 2007
 Here’s a tragic story about an attack by one nursing home resident on another, resulting in death. It is the responsibility of the nursing home to provide adequate security, especially in light of the fact that the suspect was diagnosed with major depression and dementia.
Nursing home resident indicted in death
COVINGTON, La. — A grand jury has charged a 71-year-old woman with second-degree murder of her 95-year-old nursing home roommate, who was beaten to death last year.
Karolina Glover was indicted Wednesday in the death of Bernice Mayeaux, district attorney’s office spokesman Rick Wood said.
Glover was moved from a state mental hospital to the St. Tammany Parish Jail on Monday. Doctors at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson had testified April 16 that she is competent to stand trial.
A state Department of Health and Hospitals report listed major depression and dementia among Glover’s diagnoses.
She and Mayeaux were roommates at the Pontchartrain Health Care Center in Mandeville when Mayeaux was killed early Nov. 10.
The DHH report on an investigation after Mayeaux’s death said Glover was admitted to the nursing home Oct. 9, 2002.
Mayeaux had been there about three days, recovering from hospital treatment for a stomach infection, when she was attacked. Police have said a nurse’s aide saw a light on inside the room, went in and found Glover with blood on her hands, leaning over Mayeaux.
St. Tammany Parish Coroner Peter Galvan later said Mayeaux’s injuries were not life-threatening by themselves but the beating strained her cardiovascular system, leading to her death. He ruled the death a homicide.
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Topics: Nursing Home Deaths, Louisiana Nursing Homes |
