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Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWN FILES CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST FORMER NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATOR IN KERN VALLEY ELDER ABUSE CASE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Sept. 8 -- The California Attorney General issued the following news release:
Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that Kern Valley Hospital administrator Pamela Ott was charged on eight felony counts of elder abuse today for allowing staff to forcibly administer psychotropic medications to patients for their own convenience, rather than for their patients' therapeutic interests. These actions are alleged to have resulted in the deaths of three nursing home residents.
"As hospital administrator, Pamela Ott, was ultimately responsible for safeguarding the welfare of her patients," Brown said. "Instead, Ott abdicated her responsibility and allowed the staff of ...