It's sad but true: Crimes such as thefts, abuse, and neglect are problems that nursing home residents experience on a daily basis. Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation is Memphis-based non-profit organization providing seniors a crime stoppers program to nursing homes throughout the nation.The organization got its start in 1995 in Memphis when federal regulators from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) cited then-National Bank of Commerce (NBC) for not meeting its federally mandated Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requirements.
Each year, every bank in America has to make loans and investments in the community (surrounding the bank's branches) to low-to moderate-income people. When it was determined that NBC wasn't living up to its CRA requirements, bank officials were told to find something in which to invest. That responsibility fell on the shoulders of the bank's senior vice president whose two grandmothers died in nursing homes.
One of his grandmothers died after an alleged abuse incident. Another died in a nursing home shortly after having her family Bible stolen with $5 dollars inside it. During that 10-year-period, nursing home problems and issues became well known.
To date, more than 4,000 nursing home facilities around the country are taking part in the senior crime stoppers program. (Memphis Nursing Homes)
