This makes my blood boil. Human filth.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/geo...9-old-152050125.html

Hidden footage from 2014 shows the disturbing moment a group of nurses laughed as a World War II veteran repeatedly called for help and died.

The family of 89-year-old James Dempsey of Woodstock, Georgia, installed a hidden camera in his room at the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center when he first moved in, fearing mistreatment.

The camera later captured the night he died.

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The video showed Dempsey calling for help, even telling the nurses that he couldn't breathe at one point. It also showed nurses laughing as his breathing machine failed.

Dempsey's family initially thought the decorated veteran passed from natural causes. But after reviewing the footage, what Dempsey's family saw sparked a three-year legal battle.


According to WXIA-TV, the Dempsey family declined to comment on the case or video, citing a settlement with the nursing home.

However, the local station managed to obtain the footage after a DeKalb County Judge ruled to unseal the clip.

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It wasn't until after the outlet sent a link to the footage of the incident to The Georgia Board of Nursing that the two nurses surrendered their licenses.

WXIA also reported that records show the nursing home has continued to have problems, including $813,000 in Medicare fines dating back to 2015. The station reported the institution received a good inspection report earlier this year, but still holds a one-star rating from Medicare.

Get a rope

I saw this, and it made me really upset. The vet deserved a lot better. It's beyond my understanding how someone would feel it OK to stand by while someone needed help.

MFers. That is horrible. I hope they lose everything.

Time for a firing squad. We do not need this type of animal walking amoung us.

disgusting

but why did it take 3 years for this video to surface...

everyone involved needs to be charged with murder at the very least, or make it aggravated so that the death penalty comes into play

change of venue if necessary

Looks criminally prosecutable to me....

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018...ruggles-for-air.html

Murder charge filed in fallout from video that shows nurses laughing as dying WWII vet struggles for air

Two nurses and an aide were indicted Wednesday in the death of an elderly patient, World War II veteran James Dempsey, who died pleading for help while in their care, WXIA-TV reported.

Dempsey’s family, 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 U.S. Navy 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.

The channel reported that Brookhaven Police launched an investigation and on Wednesday a grand jury returned an indictment.

Loyce Pickquet Agyeman’s top charge is felony murder; Wanda Nuckles, a nursing supervisor, is charged with depriving an elder of essential services and Mable Turman is charged with neglect to an elder, the report said. Warrants were issued for their arrests.

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.

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 arrived, WXIA-TV reported.

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 attorneys asked why 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.

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.

Damn! Just damn

Seems to me that a bunch of people at that shit hole, so called, hospital need to be introduced to a rope and lamp post.

One cannot even call them animals. Animals do not take joy in watching others suffer and die.

But, IMO, very little actual serious punishment will actually happen. Our legal system has become so corrupted that justice is no longer part of the equation.

That is fucked up.

I can't tell you how many nursing homes I have been to over the years in order to get a pt. in quite a few counties here in Fl. but the staff does everything but nurse. If you or a family member has to go to one,it is never a good thing. Unfortunately, nursing care is not what you get. The only guarantee of nursing you get is in the name. There are some good people who work there,I don't want to make it all sound bad but that is mostly what I see.

This doesn't apply to all nurses, but there is a reason certain nurses work in nursing homes. They see it as a easy job where they don't have to do much.

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This doesn't apply to all nurses, but there is a reason certain nurses work in nursing homes. They see it as a easy job where they don't have to do muc

I work in a nursing home. There are nurses who care, work their asses off, stay late and go above and beyond what is expected.

There are nurses who do work but don't do anything too out of the ordinary.

Then there are the ones who shouldn't be trusted with the care of human beings. They are on their phone for 45min, can't take a cue as to when a patient should receive PRN meds, and do the absolute bare minimum.

It's like any other career.

Engineers
Doctors
Truck drivers
Teachers
carpenters

there are some who are excellent, most are average, and some are complete shitheads

My father is 89 yrs old. He will be 90 next month. He is still as sharp as a tack! He still works as an accountant, still drives, does the grocery shopping for my mother and himself, etc. He is as self-sufficient as any of us on this forum.

Last year, he fell down the stairs in his home and was rushed to the hospital. He had a broken neck. With a little surgery and about 4 months to recover, he is now back to doing everything he used to!

Imagine if the nursing staff at the hospital where he was rushed to by ambulance had the staff that this poor WWII veteran had!

If I was the son of that vet, I'd be so pissed, I wouldn't be able to see straight.

ETA: My Dad is a vet, too. He was in during the Korean war.