The Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston where, in January 2024, state regulators cited the business for four separate instances of residents being victimized by social media abuse. (Photo via Google Earth)
Over the past five years, there have been at least 15 cases of Iowa nursing home workers being accused of taking photos or videos that violated residents’ right to privacy and dignity, an Iowa Capital Dispatch review of state records shows.
The most recent case involves a northern Iowa nursing home that was cited for failing to report an employee’s allegations that a caregiver streamed video of a partially undressed resident to the social-media platform Snapchat…