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The State of Elder Care in Central Minnesota
March 2020 Elder Voice Advocates did a review of the long-term care provider investigations in the Central Minnesota area. We found that...
Mar 1, 2020


Minnesota revokes license of company providing services to vulnerable adults
One Life Health Services allegedly let vulnerable clients live in squalor. The state has revoked the license of a Twin Cities-based...
Feb 26, 2020
Woman hammers nails into her head; Maplewood assisted-living facility faulted
Woman pounded nails into her head that weren't detected for a month. A young Somali woman with psychiatric disorders and a history of...
Jan 25, 2020
Elder Voice advocated and supported most of the new provisions included in the new law
2019 Our Advocacy Required Conducting a study of the substantiated investigations and highlighting examples of representative neglect,...
Dec 31, 2019
Please Vote Wednesday, December 18 for Elder Voice to Receive the $5,000 Donation
Elder Voice Family Advocates is one of eight semi-finalists in the Grand Casino’s “Season of Giving” Campaign. They are awarding a total...
Dec 16, 2019


Lawmakers pepper private equity firms on nursing home investments, quality issues
The role of private equity firms in nursing home and long-term care has drawn several U.S. lawmakers’ ire. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),...
Nov 24, 2019


Ann Michele Jadlowski, Catholic nun who comforted the sick and dying, dies at 94
Ann Michele Jadlowski spent half her life ministering to the sick and dying at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul and pioneered the use of...
Nov 16, 2019


Drug thieves are creative, and assisted living facilities struggle to protect seniors
Swapping oxycontin for Tylenol, forging paperwork, stashing bubble packs inside a waistband — these are some of the ways at least 5,917...
Nov 9, 2019


Owners accused of siphoning millions from Edina nursing home company
Welcov Healthcare fell into bankruptcy early this year, and a court-appointed receiver is unwinding the company. Lawsuits swirling around...
Oct 28, 2019


Minnesota health regulators often fail to respond rapidly to nursing home abuse complaint
Nursing home complaints pile up despite reform efforts by Legislature, advocates. Minnesota health regulators failed to meet federally...
Oct 28, 2019


Dozens of criminal charges filed against assisted-living facility
Finally an Attorney General who is taking these cases of abuse in senior living facilities seriously and making responsible owners,...
Sep 25, 2019


No penalty for staffer who stole from cognitively impaired resident in Sauk Rapids
SAUK RAPIDS — No arrests were made or charges filed after a pool staffer at a Sauk Rapids nursing home attempted to steal $1,420 and...
Sep 22, 2019


OPINION | How Not To Grow Old in America
The assisted living industry is booming, by tapping into the fantasy that we can all be self-sufficient until we die. Assisted living...
Sep 3, 2019


Amid growth of assisted living, some renew calls for federal oversight
CLEVELAND, Ohio — To work as an aide in an assisted-living center in Ohio requires empathy, compassion and very little training. About 20...
Jul 29, 2019


Minnesota Congressional Delegation New Release
Klobuchar, Smith, Blumenthal Urge Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to Take on Elder Abuse and Neglect For Immediate...
Jul 16, 2019
Thefts from seniors in assisted living topped $117K, UMN researcher finds
Minnesotans in assisted living facilities lost more than $117,000 to theft over the past five years, according to an analysis of state...
Jul 8, 2019


Statement of Maya Fischer: Daughter of Sonja Fischer, Nursing Home Rape Victim
Prepared for the Senate Finance Committee Hearing Not Forgotten: Protecting Americans From Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes. March 6,...
Jul 8, 2019


Thank you from the EVFA Board of Directors!
The ceremonial signing of our elder abuse protection bill happened only because our members had the courage to tell what happened to...
Jun 6, 2019


KARE 11 Investigates: Family advocates celebrate elder care reforms
For the first time Minnesota will license assisted living facilities, the last state in the nation to do so. It’s the culmination of a...
May 24, 2019


Changes in elder care legislation gain momentum, could cost $30 million
ST. PAUL — Families would be able to raise complaints without retaliation and monitor the care of their loved ones with cameras if...
May 18, 2019
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