SICK, SICK, SICK!!!

When my mother had a heart attack and was placed in a nursing home our niece, a nurse, told us to get to know the staff members, visit her frequently and without giving any clue as to when we would be coming. The staff and management will be less likely to do something unethical if they think they may be caught in the act. I wonder if they would have done this if the woman were white. I will be interested to find the outcome on this case, especially since the state health department is investigating. Whether or not Mrs. Youngblood was "harmed," this is not top quality care!


Male Stripper Goes To Nursing Home

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By Gary Dymski, Newsday

MELVILLE, N.Y. — A Long Island nursing home hired male exotic dancers to perform for its patients, according to a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Suffolk County.

The suit, filed March 13, claims that East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Babylon, N.Y., hired “male strippers to perform” as a regular occurrence for residents.

Howard Fensterman, the attorney representing the nursing home, said a committee of 16 residents voted unanimously for a male stripper to come in to entertain in September 2012.

One dancer was hired to entertain, Fensterman said, and he was paid a fee of $250 by the nursing home.

Fensterman said the residents might be in their 80s but they can decide for themselves what they want for entertainment.

Bernice Youngblood, 85, a resident of the nursing home, and her son, Franklin Youngblood, initiated the lawsuit after the son found a photograph of his mother stuffing cash inside the waistband of a male dancer clad only in white briefs, the suit said.

Franklin Youngblood, of c, N.Y., found the photograph on or about Jan. 5, the suit said, as he visited his mother at the nursing home.

The photograph also shows other residents sitting near Bernice Youngblood as the dancer hovers over her.

When Franklin Youngblood approached a nurse about the incident, the nurse tried to snatch the photograph from him, the suit said.

His brother, Darrell Youngblood, in a telephone call to a nurse on the same day, was told that the scene “depicted in the photograph was part of an entertainment event that was planned, scheduled and executed” by the nursing home “and that it was done in good faith.”

The suit also says “it was a custom, practice, and policy” of the nursing home “to orchestrate such events willingly, and knowingly.”

The suit said Bernice Youngblood “lacks the mental and physical capacity” to competently care for and protect herself, and that the facility breached its “duty of care by purchasing the services of male strippers and directing them to perform various sexually related acts … knowing that its patients did not have the physical or mental capacity to consent to such vile acts or to defend themselves against such vile acts.”

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ORIGINAL STORY:

Male Stripper Hired At Request Of Residents, Nursing Home Says
April 8, 2014 2:41 pm / 0 Comments / McClatchy Tribune News Service, National News


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Family Sues N.Y. Nursing Home Over Male Stripper Visit
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 AT 9:51PM EST

Photograph – COURTESY RAY, MITEV & ASSOCIATES showing resident with stripper
Photograph -- Howard Fensterman, who is representing the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center during this lawsuit, MARK LENNIHAN/AP
Photograph -- Rachel Canning, CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS/LANDOV
Photograph -- Bernice Youngblood and her family, MARK LENNIHAN/AP


An 85-year-old nursing home patient was the victim of “disgraceful sexual perversion” when a male stripper gyrated in front of her against her will at the suburban West Babylon, N.Y., facility, an attorney for the woman’s family said Tuesday.

John Ray, the attorney for Bernice Youngblood and her family, displayed a picture of a man in white briefs dancing in front of the woman at East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in September 2012.

The photo, which Ray said Youngblood’s son found during a visit to his mother, shows the woman putting money into the dancer’s waistband.

Ray said Youngblood had been urged to participate and did so against her will. The family has filed suit against the nursing home seeking unspecified damages.

Ray said Youngblood, who herself had worked as a health aide for the elderly, had her dignity taken away when “nursing home employees subjected her to this disgraceful sexual perversion.”

Youngblood, who attended the news conference in a wheelchair with some of her relatives at her side, mumbled in a barely audible voice that she felt “terrible” and “ashamed” about what happened, but did not remember details.

Howard Fensterman, an attorney representing the facility, said a 16-member resident committee had requested the September 2012 performance and the nursing home paid the $250 fee.

Fensterman said the facility’s management reserves the right to reject a request by the residents’ committee, particularly if the activity were deemed detrimental.

“But in this instance these are adults who wanted to have this activity, they requested it, they voted on it and the nursing home approved of it,” he said.

Franklin Youngblood said he went to a nursing supervisor for an explanation immediately after finding the photo in his mother’s bedroom drawer. The lawsuit claims the nurse attempted to grab the photo from him.

Fensterman said the girlfriend of one of Bernice Youngblood’s sons, not nursing home employees, had taken her to the stripper show. Ray said Youngblood’s son disputed that claim and, in any case, that does not mean Youngblood was not harmed by what she saw.

Fensterman also chided Ray for claiming that Youngblood was suffering from dementia, while at the same time noting the woman signed a power of attorney document claiming she was competent to sign it.

“Ms. Youngblood suffers from partial dementia,” Ray said. “She has moments of partial lucidity.”

The claims and counter-claims came during a sequence of heated news conferences outside the facility in West Babylon. Reporters and cameramen jostled in a large scrum around Fensterman and Ray when they briefly became embroiled in an argument after Ray presented his counterpart with a copy of the lawsuit complaint.

The state Health Department is investigating the incident, a spokesman said.



Male stripper goes to nursing home, elderly resident's son goes to court
By Steve Almasy, CNN
updated 8:10 AM EDT, Wed April 9, 2014

(CNN) -- Somebody at a New York nursing home apparently thought it would be a great idea to bring in a young hard body for the elderly residents to watch dance.
In other words, a male stripper.

But after a man found a picture in his 86-year-old mother's belongings of a man wearing only "tighty whiteys" hovering very much in his mom's personal space, the lawyers got involved.

Bernice Youngblood, the wheelchair-bound resident whose son, Franklin, is suing the home on her behalf, told CNN affiliate WCBS, "I felt terrible. I was shaken and going on."

WCBS reported that the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Babylon said all 16 people on a panel of residents approved the show.

"There is nothing inappropriate about it," the facility's attorney, Howard Fensterman, told reporters on Tuesday.
Fensterman, according to the WCBS report, said that Bernice Youngblood enjoyed the event and was chaperoned by her son's live-in girlfriend, who the nursing home said appears in the photo.

The family said the woman in the photo is a nursing-home staff member.

According to a lawsuit filed last month, Bernice Youngblood, who the suit says has partial dementia, was "confused and bewildered" when the stripper approached her and directed her to "place her hands about and upon his body, including his genital area."
The suit contends the home has hired male strippers on other occasions for the "perverse pleasure of the defendant's staff."
Franklin Youngblood said his mother was forced to tip the stripper with her own money, which is supposed to be locked away at the nurses' station.

"There's too much sex and craziness that's going on. Now they're bringing it to the nursing home, and it don't belong here," he told WCBS.
The suit is asking for a financial judgment of unspecified amounts from a jury at trial. It is unclear from the legal documents when the stripping incident occurred.