Ex-offender Ellsworth Johnson-Bey advocated for city youth, helping them steer clear of the rough side of Baltimore. But the fatal blow for “Brother Bey" came not from the streets, but from a nursing aide who pushed him down in a hallway of the long-term care facility where he was living. Within four months, he died of complications from his broken hip. The incident, captured on video, led his daughter to doggedly pursue accountability from the facility and prompted deep dive reporting by The Brew into the incident at that facility and state nursing home regulation in general. What we found paralleled the allegations of a class action lawsuit against state regulators by nursing home residents and confirmed by a federal judge: “Deficiencies in the quality of care and protection of resident rights at these facilities," he wrote, "have caused, and placed plaintiffs at risk of, pressure ulcers, skin infections, falls, psychosocial harm and other medical complications."
