Losing a loved one is never easy, especially when you’ve entrusted medical professionals to take care of them. For Tammy Maham, that trust was broken under horrific circumstances.
Nurenberg Paris trial attorney Jeff Heller is representing the Estate of Robert Meyer, 84, in an investigation into CommuniCare Health Services, Inc., Margret J. Thomas Inpatient Care Center in Blue Ash, and E.C. Nurre Funeral Home, all based in the Cincinnati area. Mr. Meyer was a resident of Forest Hills Healthcare Center (owned by CommuniCare) before being transferred to Margret J. Thomas Inpatient Care Center, where he died on Sept. 6, 2025.
Before Meyer’s death, his daughter, Tammy Maham, visited him and noticed blue and black strangulation marks on his neck. After her loud and clear complaints to nursing home, hospice center, and funeral home staff were all rejected, and the funeral home proceeded to bury Mr. Meyer, Ms. Maham brought timestamped photographs to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, who then ordered the exhumation of Mr. Meyer and an autopsy.
Despite being originally listed as a “natural” death due to “protein-calorie malnutrition,” Mr. Meyer’s amended death certificate now correctly lists his cause of death as “Physical Elder Abuse,” and his manner of death as a “Homicide.” The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has commenced a full investigation.
Click the links below for Jeff’s interviews with two local Cincinnati’s news outlets regarding the case.
The Cincinnati Enquirer: “Nursing home resident’s death ruled homicide after body was exhumed”
WCPO 9 News: “An Anderson Township nursing home patient died of natural causes — until the coroner called it homicide”
