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Family affected by allegations speaks out
‘She was saying things were happening’
Published Friday, August 29, 2008
A family member of one of the allegedly abused residents at Good Samaritan Society in Albert Lea said Thursday he was horrified when he heard the details of what reportedly took place to his relative.
“It’s really sad that someone takes advantage of that age,” Lonny Hagen of Glenville told the Tribune.
A Minnesota Department of Health report found that 15 residents of the nursing home were found to have been verbally, sexually and emotionally abused by four former nursing assistants.
Hagen said his relative — who he asked not be identified — has lived at Good Sam for a few years. She has Alzheimer’s and dementia.
“When she was put in there, she was saying things were happening,” he said. “You say, ‘No it’s not.’ You never think that something like that would happen.”
Though his relative made comments about the nursing home, “we thought it was her dementia,” he said.
“She’d say things about that place like ‘I don’t want to go back,’” Hagen said. “Who knows how long this has been going on?”
He said he hopes in the future people will be aware that these types of situations sometimes do take place.
“We need to train our children as an adult and that they need to learn respect,” he said. “Respect your elders. Respect your teachers in school.”
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Posted by wingo (anonymous) on August 29, 2008 at 10:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
My heart goes out to all those affected by this situation. I pray that God will give these people some peace. I also pray that he gives those responsible some conscience and they never do this sort of thing again.
Posted by RNconcerned (anonymous) on August 30, 2008 at 3:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Iam very saddened by this story and I pray for all of the victims and the families that have had to endure so much pain and heartache because of this.
Families please listen to your loved ones, Nurses please listen to your patients not just voices but in the behaviors too! Just because patients are cognitive enough to tell you exactly what happened with their voices they are SOMETIMES cognitive enough to tell you with their actions! Almost every one of the patients listed on the MDH reports states they were abusive to staff or hits out at staff....shouldn't that tell us something? How were they approached by staff to initiate resistive behaviors? How were the staff treating them? Why were these people given "behaviors in the first place? Was it something they did or was it a reaction?
Posted by RNconcerned (anonymous) on August 30, 2008 at 3:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I missed a word "are NOT cognitive enough"
Posted by craze (anonymous) on August 30, 2008 at 8:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
My heart goes out to you, your family, and all families that have been affected by this horrific ordeal.
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