Posted on Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Several months ago we wrote many posts here about the case of Mabel Taylor, the woman with Alzheimer’s Disease, who eloped from her nursing home and was found dead outside. The owner of the home, Martha F. Bell, was recently convicted of covering up the death of Mrs. Taylor. Now the nurse who was on [...]
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Posted on Monday, February 12th, 2007
Somehow this doesn’t seem right. Martha F. Bell, the nursing home operator found guilty last week of trying to cover up the death of a client, was sentenced this morning to nearly four years in state prison. Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman orderd Mrs. Bell, 60, of West Mifflin, to serve 22 to 44 [...]
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Posted on Friday, February 9th, 2007
The jury returns a guilty verdict on Martha Bell. A jury yesterday convicted former nursing home administrator Martha F. Bell and the facility she operated on all of the charges they faced in the death of former resident Mabel Taylor. After hearing testimony for more than four weeks, the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court jury [...]
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Posted on Thursday, February 8th, 2007
A jury in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court will try to decide today which portrayal of Martha F. Bell to accept. Was she a caring nursing home administrator who, since the 1970s, worked long hours to increase awareness, raise funds and improve care for people affected by the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease, as her attorney [...]
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Posted on Monday, February 5th, 2007
A doctor, who served as the Medical Director, testifies in the defense of nursing home operator Martha Bell. Under Martha F. Bell’s direction, the former Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing, Research and Rehabilitation Center became a model facility that provided good to excellent care for its residents, its former medical director testified. After caring for [...]
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Posted on Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Family and others testify at trial of nursing home owner, where Mabel Taylor died. One daughter of a former patient testified yesterday that Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing, Research and Rehabilitation Center was a deplorable, understaffed place where her mother was injured and neglected. A daughter-in-law of another patient told jurors the nursing home in [...]
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Posted on Thursday, January 25th, 2007
More from the trial of the PA nursing home: Nursing home resident Mabel Taylor died of heart disease, but sudden exposure to cold and stress after she was locked outdoors contributed to her death, a forensic pathologist testified. An autopsy on Mrs. Taylor showed a blood vessel in her heart was 75 percent blocked and [...]
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Posted on Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Jurors visit the scene of death at the PA nursing home- the owner is on trial for this: Jurors on Monday will visit a building in Robinson that once housed the nursing home where resident Mabel Taylor died after she was trapped overnight in a fenced outdoor courtyard in 2001. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge [...]
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Posted on Monday, January 15th, 2007
The case against the staff at the PA nursing home, who have been accused of covering up the death of Mabel Taylor, is getting hot. A nursing home supervisor told other workers that the home’s administrator had directed them to clean the body of resident Mabel Taylor and tell her family she’d died in her [...]
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Posted on Monday, January 8th, 2007
The trial of a nursing home operator has begun. PITTSBURGH — The long-awaited trial for a nursing home operator accused of covering up the death of a patient in Robinson Township began Monday. Prosecutors said Martha Bell is responsible for what happened to a woman with Alzheimer’s disease. Bell, 60, and the Atrium One Nursing [...]
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