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NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification
NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification The certification of a home health aide from Pennsylvania accused of tying a 71-year-old dementia patient to a chair at a South Jersey assisted living facility was permanently revoked, authorities announced. A supervising registered nurse at the Juniper Village/Well Springs Assisted Living Facility in Monroe Township discovered the abused victim during a visit to her apartment at last fall, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. The woman – who had round-the-clock health care -- had been “tied to a chair at the waist with a nightgown,” Bruck said. Afua Dankwah, 51, of Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hidden Cam Catches Caregiver Abusing Stroke Victim, 90, In Park Ridge, Authorities Charge Hidden Cam Catches Caregiver Abusing Stroke Victim, 90, In Park Ridge, Authorities Charge
Hidden Cam Catches Caregiver Abusing Stroke Victim, 90, In Park Ridge, Authorities Charge A hidden camera caught a home health aide assaulting a 90-year-old stroke victim at an assisted living facility in Park Ridge, said authorities who arrested her. The micro-surveillance “Safe Care Cam” unit caught Mitsou Gottheim, 50, of Nanuet on video “physically assaulting the elderly woman, who is bedridden and unable to communicate verbally because of a stroke,” Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. It is the first time that police charges have been filed against a caregiver as a result of video captured through the relatively-new state program, authorities said. Gottheim –…

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