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...according to the GAO, it has contributed to a litany of abuses. One resident lost a third of his body weight over seven weeks. During this time, the nursing home failed to weigh him, give him prescribed painkillers or alert his doctor to his worsening condition. Another resident had a bedsore, and the doctor ordered the bandage to be changed twice a day; it was unchanged for nearly two weeks. A third nursing-home resident was brought to a hospital, where the patient was found to have had a broken leg for at least three weeks and the nursing-home...
...GAO report, following up on a story that appeared in TIME last fall, says more than half the suspicious deaths studied in California nursing homes were probably due to neglect, including malnutrition and dehydration. The study says that nearly 1 in 3 California nursing homes has been cited by state inspectors for "serious or potentially life-threatening care problems" and that the same problems probably exist across the nation. These are likely to grow as the baby boomers become grandparents and the rocketing elderly population puts even greater pressure on the nation's nursing homes. Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa...
Sitting outside a cafe in Nanjing sipping tea, Gao Hua shakes his head. "That is all people are interested in now: looking after their own life-styles, doing things for themselves," says Gao, a professor of history at Nanjing University. "The economic reforms are irreversible," he says, but they are also part of something bigger. "Now is a transitional period in China. There is much disorder; people are waiting for something new." Gao chooses his words carefully. He has been in trouble before for being too outspoken politically. "Only a society of diversity contains the seeds of new life...
...Until this recent incorporation of campussecurity in program review guidance, [the DOE's]program reviewers had not emphasized themonitoring of campus crime reports...in their[reviews of compliance with the Higher EducationAct of 1965,]" the GAO report noted...
...normal," shrugs businessman Wang Shi. "Crime is new." So are beggars in the streets. This is a city that thumbs its nose at the government, holding on to as much of its wealth as it can, ignoring orders it dislikes, following its own drummer. Guangzhou's party chief, Gao Siren, says he wants to steady the city's headlong pace to a more controlled, sustainable drive, but everyone in Guangzhou is too busy making a fast buck to pay attention...